A car crash weeks be­fore the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion left Dr Gre­go­ry Bisses­sar with in­juries that still af­fect his walk­ing, his wife, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, re­vealed yes­ter­day.

A ma­jor cy­ber­se­cu­ri­ty vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty af­fect­ing soft­ware used by a large pro­por­tion of the world’s web­sites has high­light­ed how busi­ness­es can re­main ex­posed to threats they may not even know ex­ist, ac­cord­ing to Dr Ronald Wal­cott, man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of Pre­ci­sion Cy­ber Tech­nolo­gies and Dig­i­tal So­lu­tions Ltd (PCDS).

For­mer West In­dies bat­ting star Nicholas Pooran has not com­plete­ly ruled out re­turn­ing to in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et, but in­sists his present fo­cus is on de­vel­op­ing young tal­ent and giv­ing back to the game that has pro­vid­ed him with so much.

Af­ter putting her own ed­u­ca­tion on hold to raise a fam­i­ly, Car­lette Giusep­pi-Pereira re­turned to uni­ver­si­ty in her 40s, bal­anc­ing moth­er­hood, teach­ing and stud­ies to earn a de­gree in lin­guis­tics at UWI St Au­gus­tine.

Be­hind many suc­cess­ful peo­ple is some­one who saw their po­ten­tial be­fore they could ful­ly recog­nise it them­selves. A teacher who of­fered en­cour­age­ment, a su­per­vi­sor who shared an op­por­tu­ni­ty, or a sea­soned pro­fes­sion­al who took time to lis­ten. These seem­ing­ly small ges­tures can al­ter the di­rec­tion of a per­son’s life. That is the ex­tra­or­di­nary pow­er of men­tor­ship.