Is­sues with­in the Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment's (PNM) San Fer­nan­do East con­stituen­cy ap­pear to be near­ing res­o­lu­tion, with par­ty groups set to be­gin in­ter­nal elec­tions on Sun­day, ahead of the elec­tion of a new con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive on Oc­to­ber 15.

A call is be­ing made for in­vestors, com­pa­nies and fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions to take ad­van­tage of a new fi­nanc­ing av­enue that can chan­nel bil­lions of dol­lars in­to projects rang­ing from re­new­able en­er­gy and cli­mate-re­silient in­fra­struc­ture to hous­ing, health­care and ed­u­ca­tion.

As we pull up to match 32 of the Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) group stage, the hors­es have bunched up nice­ly and have jammed them­selves in­to the fi­nal turn like an over­crowd­ed maxi taxi dur­ing peak-hour Fri­day traf­fic.

Amid the mod­ern hus­tle of Port of Spain’s trans­for­ma­tion in­to a bustling com­mer­cial hub, Tran­quil­li­ty Methodist Church stands as a sig­nif­i­cant land­mark and a qui­et, en­dur­ing sen­tinel of the city’s past. Nes­tled at the cor­ner of Tra­garete Road and Vic­to­ria Av­enue, the strik­ing ed­i­fice is a phys­i­cal tes­ta­ment to a com­mu­ni­ty’s re­silience and a rich his­to­ry stretch­ing back more than two cen­turies.

News head­lines are of­ten dom­i­nat­ed by pol­i­tics, crime, eco­nom­ic chal­lenges and the con­tro­ver­sies of the day. Yet amid these press­ing con­cerns, it is im­por­tant to pause and recog­nise in­sti­tu­tions whose con­tri­bu­tions to na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment have en­dured across gen­er­a­tions. Such is the case with the Tran­quil­i­ty Methodist Church, which this year cel­e­brates 120 years of ser­vice.