The word “c****e” has moved through his­to­ry over the cen­turies, from colo­nial records de­scrib­ing In­di­an in­den­tured labour­ers to a term that to­day can car­ry deep racial and so­cial of­fence in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Ex­ces­sive noise pol­lu­tion is not mere­ly a nui­sance but a grow­ing pub­lic health cri­sis that con­tributes to frus­tra­tion, con­fronta­tion, and vi­o­lence in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has spent more than a cen­tu­ry mas­ter­ing the busi­ness of en­er­gy. The ques­tion now is whether that ex­per­tise can pow­er the coun­try’s next eco­nom­ic trans­for­ma­tion—or leave it be­hind. Around the world, the race is no longer just to pro­duce clean en­er­gy. It is to man­u­fac­ture the tech­nolo­gies, fu­els and ma­te­ri­als that will de­fine the next in­dus­tri­al econ­o­my. It is well doc­u­ment­ed that T&T has a head­start in this race, not sole­ly be­cause of the in­fra­struc­ture that ex­ists at the Point Lisas In­dus­tri­al Es­tate, but al­so the ex­per­tise that lies in the na­tion’s hu­man cap­i­tal.

The Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty has as­sured that im­pend­ing land­slip and slope sta­bil­i­sa­tion works at the ANR Robin­son In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port will not de­lay the open­ing of the new ter­mi­nal in To­ba­go.

A car bomb ex­plod­ed Sat­ur­day in south­west­ern Colom­bia, the army said, a day af­ter con­ser­v­a­tive po­lit­i­cal neo­phyte Abelar­do de la Es­priel­la was sworn in as Colom­bia’s new pres­i­dent.

Jorge Mes­si, the fa­ther of soc­cer star and Ar­genti­na cap­tain Li­onel Mes­si, died Sat­ur­day at a hos­pi­tal in the cen­tral Ar­genti­na city of Rosario. He was 68.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro is de­fend­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s move to set up 30 po­lice posts in com­mu­ni­ties across Trinidad and To­ba­go as part of its an­ti-crime plan.

The con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing the con­struc­tion of a po­lice post at the Ed­die Hart Sa­van­nah in Tacarigua has deep­ened, with Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (TPRC) chair­man Josi­ah Austin claim­ing the struc­ture was built di­rect­ly over a Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) gas pipeline.

Land and Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein says the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of T&T (UDe­COTT) is the ex­e­cut­ing agency re­spon­si­ble for car­ry­ing out the con­struc­tion of the con­tro­ver­sial po­lice post at the Ed­die Hart Grounds in Tacarigua. How­ev­er, he de­clined to say whether Gov­ern­ment ob­tained all the nec­es­sary ap­provals be­fore work be­gan on the unit on Thurs­day be­fore it was even­tu­al­ly stopped by the Tu­na­puna/ Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (TPRC).

A stand­off erupt­ed at the Ed­die Hart Grounds in Tacarigua yes­ter­day, af­ter Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion (TPRC) chair­man Josi­ah Austin, ac­com­pa­nied by his coun­cil mem­bers, ar­rived with a stop or­der seek­ing to halt works which re­sumed in prepa­ra­tion for a mo­bile po­lice post.

The Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion (OPR) has been asked to in­ves­ti­gate the pro­cure­ment and con­struc­tion of the Gov­ern­ment’s 30 joint po­lice-army posts, amid ques­tions over how con­trac­tors were se­lect­ed, the source of fund­ing and whether the projects were sub­ject­ed to a com­pet­i­tive ten­der­ing process.

While con­struc­tion of the Gov­ern­ment’s new po­lice posts has al­ready be­gun in some ar­eas, chair­men of Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress-con­trolled re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions say they have not yet been for­mal­ly con­sult­ed or ful­ly briefed on the de­tails sur­round­ing the ini­tia­tive.