Se­nior po­lice of­fi­cers in­ves­ti­gat­ing the Bel­mont triple mur­der that saw a 23-month-old tod­dler killed say the killing is not linked to the quadru­ple mur­der three weeks ago in Mor­vant that saw an­oth­er child mur­dered.

An econ­o­mist and a busi­ness leader agree that while they wel­come Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s sup­port for “cap­i­tal­ism” and free en­ter­prise, this must be fol­lowed up by poli­cies that sup­port the busi­ness com­mu­ni­ty.

For­mer T&T net­baller Kali­fa Mc­Collin and Kedah Sun­shine suf­fered a 39-60 de­feat at the hands of KL Wild­cats in their third-place play­off of the Malaysian Net­ball Su­per League (NSL), or­ga­nized by the Malaysian Net­ball As­so­ci­a­tion in col­lab­o­ra­tion with As­tro Are­na, at the Juara Sta­di­um, Buk­it Kiara, Kuala Lumpur on Sun­day.

Glob­al­ly, an es­ti­mat­ed one mil­lion plas­tic bot­tles are pur­chased every minute. In Trinidad and To­ba­go, many of them even­tu­al­ly end up in drains, rivers and land­fills—fu­elling the flood­ing night­mare res­i­dents know all too well dur­ing the rainy sea­son.

The pro­pos­al to re­name Nel­son Is­land has ig­nit­ed a na­tion­al de­bate about how our coun­try’s com­plex his­to­ry should be re­mem­bered in a mod­ern so­ci­ety grap­pling with the lega­cies of colo­nial­ism, mi­gra­tion and iden­ti­ty. This de­bate ex­tends well be­yond a sim­ple change of a sign­post or map ref­er­ence.