Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day con­tin­ued to heap praise on this coun­try’s law en­force­ment of­fi­cials, even as crit­i­cisms mount fol­low­ing the fa­tal po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing of Joshua Sama­roo.

Less than a year af­ter re­tir­ing as group chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer of First Cit­i­zens Group, Karen Dar­basie is set to join the board of di­rec­tors of Agos­ti­ni Ltd from June 1.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – For ten long months, Alzarri Joseph watched from a dis­tance. The game moved on. His team­mates bat­tled with­out him. And all the fast bowler could do was sit, re­cov­er, and wait.

The Na­tion­al Coun­cil of In­di­an Cul­ture (NCIC) has paid trib­ute to one of its longest-serv­ing and most in­flu­en­tial lead­ers, Dr De­ok­i­nanan Shar­ma, by of­fi­cial­ly ded­i­cat­ing its Her­itage Cen­tre in his ho­n­our.

In my sec­ondary school days, we had our fair share of school fights, but those fights looked vast­ly dif­fer­ent from what we see to­day. Back then, a school fight start­ed with an­gry words and threats, then led to a few slaps or a cuff and one or two bad­ly aimed kicks. There were al­ways a few friends hang­ing around try­ing to break up the fight and keep­ing their eyes out for adults. Just one glimpse of a teacher, ap­proach­ing adult or po­lice led to every­one present quick­ly flee­ing in dif­fer­ent di­rec­tions.