Gov­ern­ment has al­lo­cat­ed $6 mil­lion to re­fur­bish the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice’s of­fi­cial res­i­dence, which Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der says is mould-in­fest­ed and cur­rent­ly un­in­hab­it­able.

Tra­cy To­bias has been for­mal­ly con­firmed as chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer of the Ex­port-Im­port Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go (Ex­im­Bank), as the state-owned in­sti­tu­tion en­ters a new phase of lead­er­ship fol­low­ing the de­par­ture of for­mer CEO Navin Dook­er­an last De­cem­ber.

A few days ago, a fel­low crick­et head pulled me aside and posed a straight­for­ward ques­tion: “How would you rate the West In­dies’ white-ball tour to In­dia?” Af­ter mulling it over for a few sec­onds and work­ing on a scale from one to ten (where a one is an ab­solute, un­mit­i­gat­ed dis­as­ter and a ten is pure, flaw­less per­fec­tion), I set­tled firm­ly on a nine out of ten. A ten would have re­quired a clean sweep of every sin­gle match, but a rat­ing of nine places this cam­paign square­ly in the “Very Good” cat­e­go­ry.

Though the Na­tion­al Trust of T&T (NT) had its Sep­tem­ber 26 out­door ac­tiv­i­ty head­lined sim­ply as an “Oropouche La­goon Tour”, its itin­er­ary en­sured that there was more than a fair share of food, thrills and triv­ia.

The tone adopt­ed by a prime min­is­ter mat­ters, par­tic­u­lar­ly in a coun­try where po­lit­i­cal ex­changes can quick­ly be­come con­tentious. Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has nev­er been re­luc­tant to speak plain­ly, but some of her re­cent rhetoric rais­es ques­tions about whether that forth­right style is be­com­ing un­nec­es­sar­i­ly con­fronta­tion­al.