A new bar­rage of Russ­ian shelling killed at least 10 Ukrain­ian civil­ians and wound­ed 20 oth­ers in a day, the of­fice of Ukraine’s pres­i­dent said Fri­day as the coun­try worked to re­cov­er from an ear­li­er wave of Russ­ian mis­sile strikes and drone at­tacks.

Busi­ness groups across the coun­try con­tin­ued to hail the news that the Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment had grant­ed a li­cence al­low­ing T&T to de­vel­op Venezuela’s Drag­on Gas Field.

For­mer Do­mini­ca, Com­bined Is­lands and West In­dies bats­man, Irv­ing Shilling­ford, passed away on Thurs­day, Jan­u­ary 26. He was 78.

To use Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley cau­tion­ary phrase of “not want­i­ng to get ahead of our­selves,” Trinidad and To­ba­go cit­i­zens must avoid a build-up of ex­pec­ta­tions of earn­ing sig­nif­i­cant for­eign ex­change from pro­cess­ing and sell­ing Venezue­lan gas. Nonethe­less, we must learn from our past ex­pe­ri­ences with what is known in eco­nom­ic jar­gon as the “Dutch Dis­ease.”