De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge has con­firmed that this year’s In­de­pen­dence Day Pa­rade will pro­ceed as planned de­spite a se­ries of bomb threats that placed se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies across Trinidad and To­ba­go on high alert on Wednes­day.

The World Bank Group has ap­point­ed Juan Car­los Al­varez as the new coun­try man­ag­er for Trinidad and To­ba­go, uni­fy­ing coun­try-lev­el lead­er­ship across the in­sti­tu­tion to en­hance its de­vel­op­ment im­pact in sup­port of job cre­ation and T&T’s pub­lic and pri­vate sec­tor pri­or­i­ties.

CAS­TRIES, St. Lu­cia – For­mer cham­pi­on St Lu­cia Kings have suf­fered a ma­jor blow, with Afghanistan’s star left-arm wrist­spin­ner Noor Ah­mad ruled out of the 2026 Caribbean Pre­mier League sea­son af­ter the Afghanistan Crick­et Board re­voked his No-Ob­jec­tion Cer­tifi­cate (NOC), the fran­chise con­firmed in an of­fi­cial state­ment on Wednes­day.

“For I am per­suad­ed, that nei­ther death, nor life, nor an­gels, nor prin­ci­pal­i­ties, nor pow­ers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any oth­er crea­ture, shall be able to sep­a­rate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Je­sus our Lord.” (Ro­mans 8:38 &39)

There are mo­ments in life when we be­come pris­on­ers of our past. We re­mem­ber the mis­takes, fail­ures, dis­ap­point­ments, re­la­tion­ships that went wrong, op­por­tu­ni­ties we missed, and the things oth­ers have said about us. Some­times, peo­ple re­mind us of who we used to be long af­ter God has be­gun trans­form­ing who we are be­com­ing.