For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs min­is­ter Sean Sobers says his min­istry has sub­mit­ted doc­u­ments to the Unit­ed King­dom in a con­tin­ued at­tempt to re­verse the cur­rent visa re­quire­ment for T&T na­tion­als. Speak­ing with re­porters out­side Par­lia­ment on Fri­day, Sobers said, “Es­sen­tial­ly, we have trashed out cer­tain things, cer­tain asks that they had of us as a coun­try… We’ve sent the rel­e­vant in­for­ma­tion to them, and we are wait­ing on a re­sponse from them as it per­tains to that in­for­ma­tion that we’ve sent on to them”.

The glob­al eco­nom­ic land­scape is cur­rent­ly de­fined by a high de­gree of un­cer­tain­ty, which is caus­ing a rip­ple ef­fect across in­dus­tries, in­clud­ing in­sur­ance. This un­cer­tain­ty may not just be a pass­ing phase, it can have a “crip­pling” ef­fect which can lead to paral­y­sis for busi­ness­es, con­sumers and clients alike and per­haps cause them to pause on in­vest­ment and ma­jor fi­nan­cial de­ci­sions.

PROV­I­DENCE – The Guyana Ama­zon War­riors held off a dar­ing come­back by de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Saint Lu­cia Kings to book their spot in the fi­nal of the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) with a thrilling 14-run vic­to­ry in the first Qual­i­fi­er in Guyana on Wednes­day.

On Au­gust 27, the in­ti­mate stage at Kafe Blue pulsed with the adage “Mu­sic is Love,” as ten dis­tin­guished mu­si­cians gath­ered for Pan by Storm, a stir­ring trib­ute to the late Ken “Pro­fes­sor” Philmore. The evening be­came both a cel­e­bra­tion of his mu­sic and a re­minder of his tow­er­ing lega­cy in the steel­pan world.

Two days ago, the Speak­er of the Philip­pine Par­lia­ment, Mar­tin Ro­mualdez - cousin to Pres­i­dent Fer­di­nand Mar­cos Jr - re­signed amid a cor­rup­tion scan­dal in­volv­ing al­leged kick­backs from flood con­trol con­tracts. In­ves­ti­ga­tions re­vealed wide­spread ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties: ghost in­fra­struc­ture, de­fec­tive pub­lic works, and padded con­tracts.