The new new­ly ap­point­ed Unit­ed Na­tions Chil­dren’s Fund (UNICEF) Rep­re­sen­ta­tive to Bar­ba­dos and the East­ern Caribbean, Ab­dulKa­dir Musse, is warn­ing of a dis­turb­ing surge in vi­o­lence against chil­dren in the re­gion.

BpTT an­nounced yes­ter­day that it made the fi­nal in­vest­ment de­ci­sion (FID) to pro­ceed with the Gin­ger gas de­vel­op­ment, while achiev­ing ex­plo­ration suc­cess at its Frangi­pani well.  

T&T’s So­ca War­riors are set to face the gi­ants of African foot­ball Nige­ria and Ghana, as well as re­gion­al ri­vals Ja­maica, in a four-team show­down for the Uni­ty Cup in May.

T&T-born po­et An­tho­ny V Capildeo is among eight writ­ers award­ed $175,000 by Wind­ham-Camp­bell prizes to sup­port their work and al­low them to fo­cus on their cre­ative prac­tice in­de­pen­dent of fi­nan­cial con­cerns.

Notwith­stand­ing as­sur­ances giv­en to Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young by US Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio that the US will not do any­thing to harm Trinidad and To­ba­go’s eco­nom­ic fu­ture, the de­ter­mi­na­tion by US Pres­i­dent, Don­ald Trump to in­sti­tute a 25 per cent tar­iff against Chi­nese trade com­ing in­to the re­gion can add to T&T’s dif­fi­cul­ties in the pro­cess­ing of Venezuela’s nat­ur­al gas.