Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she is not sur­prised that the Unit­ed States’ in­dict­ment of Venezuela Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro con­tains al­le­ga­tions that Caribbean politi­cians were com­plic­it in the co­caine traf­fick­ing trade.

In 2025, the Cen­tral Bank of T&T (CBTT) ex­pe­ri­enced a ma­jor shift in its ad­min­is­tra­tive and fis­cal di­rec­tion, large­ly dri­ven by a change in lead­er­ship dur­ing a pe­ri­od of com­plex eco­nom­ic re­cov­ery.

Net­ball Trinidad and To­ba­go (NTT) has ap­point­ed for­mer T&T Un­der-16 as­sis­tant coach Liselle John­son as head coach of the coun­try’s se­nior women’s net­ball team. NTT Pres­i­dent Deb­bie-Ann Fran­cois con­firmed the se­lec­tion to Guardian Me­dia Sports via a tele­phone in­ter­view on Fri­day.

Po­lit­i­cal lead­ers are elect­ed to solve prob­lems and make changes that would ben­e­fit all cit­i­zens. Hold­ing of­fice is a grind­ing process that is not for the faint-heart­ed or the thin-skinned. In fact, sound pol­i­cy­mak­ing is low on im­me­di­ate re­wards and re­quires tough choic­es that rarely please every­one. Not all prob­lems can be solved po­lit­i­cal­ly. There­fore, lead­ers must iden­ti­fy the sig­nif­i­cant chal­lenges and com­mu­ni­cate the po­lices, if not the so­lu­tions, to ad­dress na­tion­al chal­lenges.