Ro­man Catholic Arch­bish­op of Port of Spain Ja­son Gor­don has in­struct­ed priests to con­tin­ue of­fer­ing con­se­crat­ed wine dur­ing Holy Com­mu­nion to Catholics of all ages, say­ing the prac­tice is pro­tect­ed by the Con­sti­tu­tion.

Lead­er­ship up­heaval hit two ma­jor state-con­trolled com­pa­nies this week, with Na­tion­al Flour Mills (NFM) CEO Ter­rence Kalloo abrupt­ly ter­mi­nat­ed and An­gos­tu­ra Hold­ings Ltd’s group gen­er­al coun­sel and cor­po­rate sec­re­tary Kathry­na Bap­tiste As­see re­sign­ing.

On Sat­ur­day on Is­ports, we had to read the shock­ing news that the an­nu­al Sec­ondary Schools Swim Meet—sched­uled for Sun­day—had to be can­celled be­cause the Na­tion­al Aquat­ic Cen­tre was not in a safe con­di­tion for spec­ta­tors, swim­mers, or coach­es.

Grow­ing up in Bar­rack­pore, where his par­ents worked as cane farm­ers, Dr Sharaz Khan learnt ear­ly that suc­cess was not sim­ply about how far one trav­elled in life, but about re­mem­ber­ing where the jour­ney be­gan.

For decades, the T&T trade union move­ment played key roles in de­ter­min­ing the pace and di­rec­tion of na­tion­al so­cial, eco­nom­ic and po­lit­i­cal de­vel­op­ment.