At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie has met with a del­e­ga­tion from the Unit­ed States Em­bassy to dis­cuss hu­man traf­fick­ing and op­por­tu­ni­ties for con­tin­ued col­lab­o­ra­tion to com­bat the crime in Trinidad and To­ba­go and the wider Caribbean.

For­mer min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Fi­nance Mar­i­ano Browne be­lieves Trinidad and To­ba­go has lost op­por­tu­ni­ties to strength­en trade with Venezuela and must now fo­cus on for­mal­is­ing com­mer­cial ac­tiv­i­ty be­tween the two coun­tries.

DHA­KA – Shad­man Is­lam’s de­fi­ant, un­beat­en knock of 99 guid­ed Bangladesh to 213 for three to give them the edge over the vis­it­ing West In­dies af­ter the first day of the open­ing Test in Bangladesh on Wednes­day.

South­ern Trinidad’s for­got­ten his­to­ry is be­ing brought to light through ar­chae­o­log­i­cal re­search that is un­cov­er­ing ev­i­dence of the lives of In­dige­nous peo­ple, in­den­tured labour­ers and the com­mu­ni­ties they built, while train­ing a new gen­er­a­tion of lo­cal re­searchers to pre­serve the coun­try’s her­itage.

Now ap­proach­ing the end of Pink Oc­to­ber, when the breast can­cer mes­sage is clear­ly in the spot­light, the ques­tion re­mains whether this an­nu­al surge tru­ly im­proves women’s re­pro­duc­tive-health aware­ness and out­comes.