Cou­va South MP Bar­ry Padarath is stand­ing by his com­ments re­gard­ing the con­duct of par­lia­men­tary staff and has dis­missed calls by the Op­po­si­tion for him to be in­ves­ti­gat­ed for the al­leged in­tim­i­da­tion of staff as a de­flec­tion at­tempt by the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment.

Over the past decade, Trinidad and To­ba­go’s nat­ur­al re­source and rur­al-based in­dus­tries—co­pra, tim­ber, sawmilling, and hunt­ing—have op­er­at­ed in a space where le­gal re­quire­ments ex­ist­ed on pa­per but were un­even­ly en­forced in prac­tice. Long-stand­ing leg­is­la­tion such as the Co­pra Prod­ucts Con­trol Act and forestry and wildlife reg­u­la­tions set out li­cens­ing, per­mit­ting, and hunt­ing rules, yet many small op­er­a­tors and com­mu­ni­ty-lev­el pro­duc­ers re­mained in­for­mal, of­ten with­out fac­ing mean­ing­ful sanc­tions. The Fi­nance Bill 2026 seeks to change this equi­lib­ri­um by sharply in­creas­ing fines and sig­nalling a more as­sertive en­force­ment pos­ture. In do­ing so, it places tra­di­tion­al liveli­hoods, en­vi­ron­men­tal stew­ard­ship and pub­lic health con­cerns in the same pol­i­cy frame and asks op­er­a­tors to ei­ther step ful­ly in­to the for­mal econ­o­my or face sig­nif­i­cant­ly high­er penal­ties.

SOUTHAMP­TON – Both West In­dies Women’s head coach Shane Deitz and cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews be­lieve the re­gion­al side is well pre­pared to do bat­tle against de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons New Zealand in their ICC Women’s T20 World Cup open­er in Eng­land on Sat­ur­day.

It’s not every day you get an In­sta­gram DM (di­rect mes­sage) from a FI­FA rep­re­sen­ta­tive say­ing they ad­mire your work. But this is ex­act­ly what hap­pened to T&T’s Al­in­ton “DJ An­ar­chy” Br­ere­ton. The Moru­ga na­tive is now gear­ing up for the op­por­tu­ni­ty of a life­time — play­ing at the 2026 FI­FA World Cup, which kicked off on Thurs­day.

This is the next world. A Time of Ar­ti­fi­cial Life and In­tel­li­gence. An age in which every de­sign choice re­flects a vi­sion for hu­man­i­ty. A hope that can eas­i­ly over­look con­crete lives. Be­cause of poor judge­ment, we may al­ready have lost con­trol over the con­se­quences of our choic­es. It is a mo­ment that har­bours both the per­ils of un­fore­seen con­se­quences and the haz­ards of an un­prece­dent­ed form of agency, not a new form of in­tel­li­gence. The an­ti­bod­ies have not been de­feat­ed, and their cau­tion­ary tales are a vivid chron­i­cle of how near the sin­gu­lar­i­ty is.