An an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in the Fyz­abad dis­trict on Thurs­day morn­ing re­sult­ed in the ar­rest of three men and the seizure of il­le­gal drugs, am­mu­ni­tion, and a firearm.

There is an ur­gent is­sue af­fect­ing the avail­abil­i­ty of es­sen­tial food and health sup­ple­ments in T&T, dri­ven by ex­ces­sive bu­reau­cra­cy and out­dat­ed im­port reg­u­la­tions. These re­stric­tions are not on­ly cost­ly but al­so cre­ate sig­nif­i­cant bar­ri­ers for re­tail im­porters and con­sumers alike.

The Pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Crick­et Board, Az­im Bas­sarath, at­tempt­ed to in­flu­ence the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice’s (TTPS) on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to a fraud re­port sub­mit­ted by TTCB whistle­blow­er and ac­coun­tant Kiswah Chaitoo.

With a stun­ning rep­re­sen­ta­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s finest, re­cent Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty grad­u­ate Cameron Ho­sein has used his tal­ent to pro­mote the coun­try on the in­ter­na­tion­al stage. Ho­sein has cre­at­ed a book in his se­nior the­sis project (ac­com­pa­nied by an art in­stal­la­tion) doc­u­ment­ing 72 of T&T’s cre­ative minds in the dance, mu­sic, art, fash­ion and the­atre in­dus­tries whose art has im­pact­ed and trans­formed T&T and has even reached out­side of our bor­ders.

A change in gov­ern­ment is an op­por­tu­ni­ty for re­new­al. Fresh eyes should bring a fresh view. This ad­min­is­tra­tion in­her­its all of its pre­de­ces­sor’s prob­lems. Most are not new and would have ex­ist­ed dur­ing Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s first term as Prime Min­is­ter. Cir­cum­stances have changed marked­ly since 2015 and re­quire greater ur­gency.