From next Fri­day, un­doc­u­ment­ed im­mi­grants will be able to start the process of reg­is­ter­ing to work legal­ly in Trinidad and To­ba­go. Adult ap­pli­cants will be re­quired to pay $700, and those who fail to reg­is­ter will face im­me­di­ate de­por­ta­tion.

The Fair Trad­ing Com­mis­sion (FTC) has not been able to make en­force­ments for the past eight months due to the ab­sence of its board.

Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs, Phillip Watts, on Wednes­day, pre­sent­ed cel­e­brat­ed javelin throw­er and Sports Am­bas­sador Keshorn Wal­cott with a Na­tion­al In­cen­tive and Re­ward val­ued at TT$500,000.

The Un­der­cov­er Cool­er Fete took place at Drew Manor in San­ta Cruz last Sat­ur­day, draw­ing a live­ly crowd of so­ca and Car­ni­val en­thu­si­asts ea­ger to kick off the short­ened Car­ni­val sea­son.

Jan­u­ary ar­rives qui­et­ly. Af­ter the noise of Christ­mas and the forced op­ti­mism of New Year’s res­o­lu­tions, the world ex­hales. The dec­o­ra­tions come down. Life re­sumes. Car­ni­val beck­ons. It is in this qui­eter month—of­ten over­looked, rarely cel­e­brat­ed—that we mark Cer­vi­cal Can­cer Aware­ness.