The High Court has re­fused an ur­gent ex parte ap­pli­ca­tion filed by ca­lyp­son­ian Kurt Allen in a bid to stop the Trin­ba­go Uni­fied Ca­lyp­so­ni­ans’ Or­gan­i­sa­tion (TU­CO) elec­tion sched­uled for Ju­ly 12, 2026.

The dis­pute be­tween the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) and Methanex over the in­def­i­nite idling of the Ti­tan methanol plant has re­newed de­bate over whether nat­ur­al gas prices from state-owned com­pa­nies should re­main con­fi­den­tial even af­ter gas sup­ply con­tract ne­go­ti­a­tions have end­ed.

Rough­ly three months ago, my eyes im­me­di­ate­ly lit up when I dis­cov­ered that Capel­li Sport had found a pres­ence at the 2026 FI­FA World Cup through its part­ner­ship with Cape Verde.

She had her life all mapped out, ex­pect­ing her planned ca­reer to be re­alised at age 25. But un­ex­pect­ed cir­cum­stances forced An­drea Bernard to take the scenic route to be­ing called to the Bar—a route that led her to teach in Spain and Cam­bo­dia be­fore she re­turned home to be­gin her ca­reer as an at­tor­ney.

A fun­da­men­tal premise of democ­ra­cy is that elect­ing a dif­fer­ent po­lit­i­cal par­ty will bring about the changes re­quired to move a coun­try for­ward and cor­rect what­ev­er ills or mis­takes the pre­vi­ous ad­min­is­tra­tion made. This al­lows an ad­min­is­tra­tion to stay re­spon­sive to pub­lic needs and de­liv­er re­sults. It al­so al­lows course cor­rec­tions, so that the new ad­min­is­tra­tions can im­ple­ment fresh strate­gies to ad­dress eco­nom­ic or so­cial prob­lems.