Show­ers and thun­der­storms as­so­ci­at­ed with the pas­sage of a trop­i­cal wave has trig­gered street and flash flood­ing across north­west­ern Trinidad on Mon­day af­ter­noon.

Shell T&T yes­ter­day an­nounced that pro­duc­tion has start­ed from its Bar­racu­da project af­ter achiev­ing first gas on Sun­day.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Com­posed half-cen­turies from Nicholas Pooran and Ja­son Hold­er helped West In­dies pro­duce a gal­lant fight­back, as the home side beat Aus­tralia by four wick­ets in Sat­ur­day’s sec­ond Day/night One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al to set up a se­ries de­cider on Mon­day.

Pun­ish­ing weath­er pat­terns un­seen for ages in some coun­tries trig­ger dis­tress and deaths, wild­fires rage, dev­as­tat­ing floods turn streets in­to rivers and homes in­to wa­tery death traps, all hap­pen­ing against the back­drop of oth­er world dra­mas and a pan­dem­ic tak­ing its time to claim as many vic­tims as it can. The en­vi­ron­men­tal­ists have warned for decades about mankind’s dance with death by de­stroy­ing the en­vi­ron­ment. De­for­esta­tion, pol­lu­tion of the Earth’s lungs–the oceans and wa­ter­cours­es–with in­dus­tri­al poi­sons con­tribute to cli­mate warm­ing. Call it the macabre hunger games as greedy play­ers un­leash dis­as­ters by rap­ing pris­tine forests, the cra­dle of virus­es. There’s now the call of sci­en­tists and gov­ern­ments for mass vac­ci­na­tions against the virus and its vari­ants. But the lives of all peo­ple do not fall in­to an equal cat­e­go­ry. Mil­lions can’t get the life-sav­ing jabs, and not all sci­en­tif­i­cal­ly ap­proved vac­cines are ac­cept­ed by eco­nom­i­cal­ly pros­per­ous coun­tries. Some are pass­ports to en­ter re­gions such as the Eu­ro­pean Union once the vac­cines were pro­duced there. So, don’t think that proof of vac­ci­na­tions is a pass to en­ter every coun­try if you weren’t jabbed with a vac­cine ac­cept­ed by the place to which you are vis­it­ing. In any event, trav­ellers are re­quired to show ev­i­dence of neg­a­tive COVID tests or re­cov­ery from the virus.