As the pre­sen­ta­tion of the 2027 Bud­get looms on Mon­day, stake­hold­ers are call­ing for speed­i­er im­ple­men­ta­tion of projects.

Chargé d'af­faires at the US Em­bassy in Port of Spain, Philip Kern, hopes dis­cus­sions at the Caribbean Food In­vest­ment Round­table on Thurs­day will spur for­eign di­rect in­vest­ment to help im­prove food se­cu­ri­ty in the re­gion.

Ta­fari Wal­dron and Ny­la Kerr sprang in­to a cel­e­bra­to­ry mood Sat­ur­day (Oc­to­ber 10) by tak­ing the men’s and women’s di­vi­sions of the Sco­tia­bank Well­ness 5K Se­ries at Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain.

As the world marked World Men­tal Health Day on Sat­ur­day, writer Car­ol Quash took us on an un­ex­pect­ed jour­ney to a cat café, where the com­fort and com­pan­ion­ship of cats are help­ing to cre­ate a safe and wel­com­ing space for peo­ple deal­ing with men­tal health chal­lenges. It is a place where fur­ry friends, con­ver­sa­tion and com­pas­sion come to­geth­er to make a dif­fer­ence.

Slinger Fran­cis­co’s ad­di­tion of qual­i­ty to Trinidad and To­ba­go’s de­vel­op­ment was ahead not on­ly of oth­er ca­lyp­so­ni­ans, but al­so be­yond the ar­tic­u­la­tion of groups of so­cial sci­en­tists, politi­cians, and gov­ern­ments. He picked up the theme ex­pressed by PM Dr Er­ic Williams at In­de­pen­dence: “The fu­ture of the na­tion is in the school bags of our chil­dren.”