At least 25 peo­ple de­tained un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) dur­ing the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) are con­sid­er­ing le­gal ac­tion against the State in a bid to se­cure com­pen­sa­tion for their in­car­cer­a­tion, ac­cord­ing to at­tor­ney CJ Williams.

With the Gov­ern­ment ex­pect­ed to de­liv­er its 2027 fis­cal pack­age in the com­ing weeks, rec­om­men­da­tions from the Amer­i­can Cham­ber of Com­merce of T&T (Am­cham T&T) is propos­ing the es­tab­lish­ment of a Na­tion­al In­fra­struc­ture In­vest­ment Fund ca­pa­ble of mo­bil­is­ing be­tween US$500 mil­lion and US$1 bil­lion in pri­vate sec­tor cap­i­tal for crit­i­cal projects.

De­fend­ing cham­pi­on Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force and Queen’s Park Crick­et Club (QPCC) both won for their sec­ond straight time when the T&T Hock­ey Board In­door Cham­pi­onships Men’s Open Di­vi­sion con­tin­ued at the Wood­brook Youth Fa­cil­i­ty, Port-of-Spain, on Sun­day (Sep­tem­ber 13).

Wa­ter­sports are for every­one. It’s a mes­sage na­tion­al free­d­iv­ing record-hold­er and speech-lan­guage pathol­o­gist Shiv­ani Gob­erd­han helped spread across Hawaii, which she has brought back to her home coun­try. Now based in To­ba­go, she’s cham­pi­oning and as­sist­ing with the in­volve­ment of peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ties in some of her favourite dis­ci­plines.

Ag­gres­sion is not vi­o­lence. An ag­gres­sive per­son may not be vi­o­lent. Ag­gres­sion is be­hav­iour char­ac­terised by ver­bal or phys­i­cal at­tack, yet it may be ap­pro­pri­ate and self-pro­tec­tive. It may al­so be de­struc­tive. The most com­mon form of de­struc­tive ag­gres­sion takes place in the home. It’s called abuse. It has many forms: phys­i­cal, sex­u­al, emo­tion­al or psy­cho­log­i­cal and oth­ers, fi­nan­cial, do­mes­tic and the for­got­ten one, ne­glect. Ne­glect of moth­ers and chil­dren.