Six­teen Sec­re­taries and As­sis­tant Sec­re­taries of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly took the Oath of Of­fice on Mon­day.

One year be­fore T&T gained in­de­pen­dence from Great Britain, a lit­tle air­line called Wind­ward Is­lands Air­ways In­ter­na­tion­al NV (Winair) was found­ed in Sint Maarten. One year lat­er, it spread its wings and be­gan com­mer­cial op­er­a­tions. Now, 64 years lat­er, the Caribbean’s old­est air­line is spread­ing its wings once again and launch­ing flights to Trinidad.

With the ex­cep­tion of bats­man Cephas Coop­er’s 154, and team­mate Navin Bidaisee 90, on the open­ing day of the 2025 sea­son, it was the bowlers who dom­i­nat­ed the spot­light in all four match­es, led by the Queen’s Park Crick­et Club (QPCC) spin trio, who proved too much for the Mer­ry­boys bats­men when Yan­nic Cari­ah, Bryan Charles, and Mikkell Govia led the Parkites to an in­nings and 113-run win in Bagatelle, Diego Mar­tin, on Sun­day, day two of the T&T Crick­et Board Na­tion­al League com­pe­ti­tion for Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion I teams.

The Un­der­cov­er Cool­er Fete took place at Drew Manor in San­ta Cruz last Sat­ur­day, draw­ing a live­ly crowd of so­ca and Car­ni­val en­thu­si­asts ea­ger to kick off the short­ened Car­ni­val sea­son.

With his char­ac­ter­is­tic ge­nius, writer and jour­nal­ist Gabriel Gar­cía Márquez de­fined the great Latin Amer­i­can and Caribbean para­dox: on the one hand, the lone­li­ness and dif­fi­cul­ty of be­ing un­der­stood in­ter­na­tion­al­ly and, on the oth­er, a vi­tal­i­ty and iden­ti­ty that cry out to be recog­nised and val­ued on their own terms. The echoes of this re­flec­tion have wan­dered through an old labyrinth for more than a hun­dred years now.