The Be­lize Fund for a Sus­tain­able Fu­ture is pro­vid­ing a grant of BDZ$250,000 (One Be­lize dol­lar =US$0.49 cents) to the Be­lize Ho­tel As­so­ci­a­tion (BHA) and the Be­lize Tourism and In­dus­tries As­so­ci­a­tion (BTIA) to help the coun­try deal with the im­pact of the sar­gas­sum along the coast­lines.

Multi­na­tion­al pay­ment card ser­vices com­pa­ny, Visa, yes­ter­day said that T&T is still a pri­or­i­ty mar­ket in the Caribbean for its op­er­a­tions, de­spite the con­sis­tent re­duc­tion in for­eign ex­change spend­ing lim­its on cred­it cards by banks in this coun­try.

An­tigua and Bar­bu­da Fal­cons coach Paul Nixon has ac­cused Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) of be­ing "dis­re­spect­ful" and "un­pro­fes­sion­al".

As T&T marks its 63rd year of in­de­pen­dence, the rhythms of ca­lyp­so and so­ca will take cen­tre stage in a spe­cial trib­ute con­cert ho­n­our­ing two of the art­form’s tow­er­ing fig­ures—Em­rold Phillip, bet­ter known as the Peo­ple’s Ca­lyp­son­ian Bro Valenti­no, and the late Ce­cil Hume, the trail­blaz­ing Mae­stro.

On Fri­day, Au­gust 31, 1962, you tran­si­tioned from a tiny and prob­a­bly ir­rel­e­vant frag­ment of the British Em­pire in­to an in­de­pen­dent na­tion filled with a vi­sion. It was a mas­sive ac­com­plish­ment for a small coun­try. You were cel­e­brat­ed in speech­es and ral­lies and giv­en the sym­bols of na­tion­hood—the flag, coat of arms, watch­words and an an­them. It was your deep­est mo­ment of glo­ry, a de­c­la­ra­tion that you were shed­ding the ves­tiges of colo­nial­ism and look­ing for­ward to mak­ing your own de­ci­sions. A new na­tion was born!