When T&T al­ter­na­tive rock band Imag­i­nary Friends re­leased those lyrics in Might in 2016, they felt its soul­ful pop/rock and Tri­ni blend might have pro­vid­ed pos­i­tive vibes for lis­ten­ers at that stress­ful time, when one of the largest oil price de­clines in mod­ern his­to­ry oc­curred.

The Min­istry of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices (MPS­DFS) says once the Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Cross So­ci­ety (TTRCS) com­pletes its au­dits, it will re­assess the gov­ern­ment’s fi­nan­cial re­la­tion­ship with the hu­man­i­tar­i­an or­gan­i­sa­tion. The Min­istry added that, at present, it has no ac­tive fi­nan­cial re­la­tion­ship with the Red Cross.

Mi­nor­i­ty Leader Kelvon Mor­ris is call­ing on To­bag­o­ni­ans to pre­pare for what he de­scribed as a “week of truth and dis­trac­tion” as he plans to move a pri­vate mo­tion ex­pos­ing what he called “Far­ley Au­gus­tine’s be­tray­al of To­ba­go.”

The An­tigua and Bar­bu­da De­fence Force (ABDF) is deny­ing re­ports of unau­tho­rised Amer­i­can mil­i­tary ac­tiv­i­ty on the is­land, say­ing that the pres­ence of Cana­di­an mil­i­tary of­fi­cials is a re­sult of the plan­ning process for the Com­mon­wealth Heads of Gov­ern­ment Meet­ing (CHOGM) to be held here next year.

Dick Ch­eney, the hard-charg­ing con­ser­v­a­tive who be­came one of the most pow­er­ful and po­lar­is­ing vice pres­i­dents in U.S. his­to­ry and a lead­ing ad­vo­cate for the in­va­sion of Iraq, has died at age 84.

The Guyana gov­ern­ment says the glob­al en­vi­ron­ment is im­pact­ing the rev­enue of the oil and rice in­dus­tries, but re­main con­fi­dent that the coun­try’s eco­nom­ic pro­jec­tions would be met.

The body of 63-year-old ex-fire­man and join­er Anslym Alon­zo was dis­cov­ered in a bushy area at Pe­ter­son Trace, De Gannes Road, off Lit­tle Co­ra Road, Cu­mu­to, on Mon­day evening.

San Fer­nan­do came alive with colour, rhythm, and her­itage as school chil­dren joined cul­tur­al groups for a vi­brant pro­ces­sion along Har­ris Prom­e­nade yes­ter­day.

For­mer na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ter and po­lice com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment, and more specif­i­cal­ly Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der, to im­prove com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the pub­lic.

Hours af­ter US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s warn­ing to Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro that his days in pow­er were num­bered, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar main­tains that the US mil­i­tary build-up in the re­gion is aimed at com­bat­ing drug traf­fick­ing, not regime change. She al­so re­it­er­at­ed that no re­quest has been made for Trinidad and To­ba­go to serve as a base for po­ten­tial at­tacks on Venezue­lan soil.

Venezuela’s Jus­tice Min­is­ter, Dios­da­do Ca­bel­lo, is ac­cus­ing the Gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go of “at­tack­ing” Venezue­lans due to the in­creas­ing num­ber of de­por­ta­tions fol­low­ing a re­duc­tion in the avail­abil­i­ty of work per­mits for Venezue­lans.

Venezue­lan op­po­si­tion par­lia­men­tar­i­an José Brito has joined Cara­cas in con­demn­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar for sup­port­ing US mil­i­tary op­er­a­tions in the Caribbean.