The en­tire ex­ec­u­tive of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s San Fer­nan­do East con­stituen­cy has re­signed, mark­ing a dra­mat­ic es­ca­la­tion in the par­ty’s in­ter­nal dis­pute in­volv­ing MP Bri­an Man­ning and con­stituen­cy chair­man Pa­tri­cia Alex­is.

San Fer­nan­do East MP Bri­an Man­ning has ac­cused the PNM’s po­lit­i­cal leader of fail­ing to act on what he de­scribes as a “cor­rupt and crim­i­nal el­e­ment” with­in the par­ty, as the in­ter­nal dis­pute in his con­stituen­cy es­ca­lates in­to a pub­lic con­fronta­tion.

Two Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­i­ment (TTR) sol­diers res­cued five civil­ians who got in­to dif­fi­cul­ty in the wa­ters off Blan­chisseuse Beach on Sat­ur­day, ac­cord­ing to a Face­book post by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­i­ment.

Farm­ers in Va­len­cia are rais­ing alarm over il­le­gal squat­ting, prae­di­al lar­ce­ny and a lack of ba­sic in­fra­struc­ture, with some claim­ing armed squat­ters are bull­doz­ing agri­cul­tur­al lands and sell­ing lots with­out per­mis­sion.

The Caribbean’s oceans are deeply con­nect­ed to the lives of the peo­ple who call this re­gion home. That con­nec­tion is both his­toric and con­tem­po­rary. No­bel lau­re­ate Derek Wal­cott fa­mous­ly wrote that “the sea is his­to­ry” when speak­ing about these is­lands. To­day, the oceans con­tin­ue to play a cru­cial role in Caribbean life, sus­tain­ing food se­cu­ri­ty, fish­eries, tourism and trans­porta­tion.

The world’s coral reefs are run­ning out of time to re­cov­er be­tween in­creas­ing­ly fre­quent ma­rine heat­waves and glob­al bleach­ing events, with cli­mate change dri­ving a long-term de­cline in coral cov­er, a new glob­al as­sess­ment has found.

For­mer Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment Ed­u­ca­tion min­is­ter Hazel Man­ning’s of­fer to seek the chair­man­ship of the par­ty’s San Fer­nan­do East con­stituen­cy has been wel­comed by past and present PN­Mites and south­ern­ers.

For­mer PNM min­is­ter Hazel Man­ning’s de­ci­sion to en­ter the po­lit­i­cal fray at this time and seek the San Fer­nan­do East chair­man­ship is strate­gic and well timed, and demon­strates the dri­ven sta­bil­i­ty she rep­re­sent­ed as a min­is­ter and along­side her late hus­band, for­mer prime min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning, po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr Shane Mo­hammed has said.

Forced out of the class­room for al­most an aca­d­e­m­ic year due to a de­bil­i­tat­ing back in­jury, Bish­op’s High School stu­dent and sprint­er Malique Young has learned that the race is not al­ways for the swift.

For Kirsten-Jade Ram­per­sad, sewing and fash­ion were more than week­end ac­tiv­i­ties. They were ways to clear her mind, recharge and re­fo­cus on her stud­ies, help­ing her ex­cel with eight Grade Ones, each with a Grade A, in her CSEC ex­am­i­na­tions.

The Na­tion­al Coun­cil of In­di­an Cul­ture (NCIC) has called on politi­cians and the me­dia to stop us­ing race, re­li­gion and cul­ture as tools to di­vide the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

To­ba­go hote­liers are be­ing warned by the Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce to brace for a “rough” Oc­to­ber fol­low­ing a drought warn­ing from the TT Met Of­fice amid dry con­di­tions over the past three months.