Se­cu­ri­ty per­son­nel as­signed to the Par­lia­ment, as well as in­tel­li­gence of­fi­cers with­in the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice, say they are in the dark con­cern­ing any threats against Gov­ern­ment MPs or min­is­ters.

The news that Nu­trien is ac­tive­ly look­ing to sell its Trinidad as­sets and that Pro­man is mak­ing sig­nif­i­cant new in­vest­ments in the Mid­dle East have re­fo­cused at­ten­tion on the fu­ture of the down­stream petro­chem­i­cal in­dus­try in Trinidad & To­ba­go.

We are with­in strik­ing dis­tance of World Cup 2026 now. And al­though my first World Cup was in 1966, six­ty years lat­er I am count­ing down the days to kick­off with the ea­ger an­tic­i­pa­tion of a child ex­pect­ing a long-await­ed gift. Some be­lieve the ex­pand­ed field will de­val­ue the tour­na­ment, but I dis­agree. Yes, as ever, FI­FA is sin­gle-mind­ed­ly chas­ing the mon­ey, but I be­lieve the ex­pan­sion presents an op­por­tu­ni­ty for less­er na­tions. Af­ter all, is that not what has hap­pened over time since the tour­na­ment be­gan? The in­au­gur­al World Cup of 1930 field­ed 13 teams. This num­ber grad­u­al­ly ex­pand­ed over the suc­ceed­ing years – 1934 (16 teams), 1982 (24 teams), 1998 (32 teams) and, of course, 2026 (48 teams). Sene­gal, the con­tro­ver­sial­ly de­throned African Foot­ball Con­fed­er­a­tion cham­pi­on, qual­i­fied for its first World Cup in 2002 be­cause of the ex­pand­ed field.

Parish­ioners from the St Philip and St James RC Church re­cent­ly host­ed their an­nu­al Parish Har­vest at the church com­pound in Ch­agua­nas.

Fol­low­ing the re­cent spate of vi­o­lent in­ci­dents in­volv­ing school­child­ren, Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath said the re­vised Na­tion­al School Code of Con­duct would be “a crit­i­cal tool in pro­mot­ing dis­ci­pline, ac­count­abil­i­ty, stu­dent sup­port and safer school en­vi­ron­ments.”