Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has dou­bled down on her crit­i­cism of the pro­ce­dure utilised by Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) Heads of Gov­ern­ment to reap­point Dr Car­la Bar­nett to a sec­ond term as Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al. 

East­er re­mains one of the most im­por­tant pe­ri­ods for Trinidad and To­ba­go’s tourism sec­tor, and this year the out­look re­flects strong de­mand across both is­lands.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s ath­letes at the 2026 Carif­ta Games, host­ed by Grena­da for the sec­ond time in three years, blew past even the most au­da­cious pre­dic­tions be­fore they even touched soil with an­oth­er stel­lar show­ing on the third and fi­nal day of the 53rd edi­tion in St. George’s, Grena­da on Mon­day.

De­part­ing US-born UWI De­part­ment of Cre­ative and Fes­ti­val Arts (DC­FA) eth­no­mu­si­col­o­gist, Prof Jean­nine Re­my, was treat­ed to a spec­tac­u­lar demon­stra­tion of the in­struc­tion she has de­liv­ered over the years when the UWI Arts Per­cus­sion En­sem­ble paid trib­ute to her on March 28.

Like all re­li­gions, Chris­tian­i­ty is found­ed on love, trust and the uni­ver­sal prin­ci­ple, the Gold­en Rule, which, sim­ply put, is to treat each oth­er the way we want to be treat­ed. All great re­li­gions, Hin­duism, Ju­daism, Chris­tian­i­ty, Is­lam and Bud­dhism, es­sen­tial­ly say the same. It’s a cen­tral eth­ic: treat oth­ers as you wish to be treat­ed. The em­pha­sis is on com­pas­sion, hon­esty, truth­ful­ness and non-harm and mil­lions of peo­ple around the world say they be­lieve in this.