Port-of-Spain May­or Chin­ua Al­leyne says a fis­cal cri­sis he warned about more than two months ago has now ma­te­ri­alised, af­ter the Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion was un­able to meet its June pay­roll oblig­a­tions.

A Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing signed be­tween the Unit­ed States and Iran last week has giv­en the glob­al avi­a­tion in­dus­try its first re­al sense of op­ti­mism in over 100 days.

I must con­fess, the 2026 FI­FA World Cup has so far gone pre­cise­ly ac­cord­ing to plan, with on­ly a few mi­nor hic­cups to re­port. Yes, there has been a jus­ti­fi­able cho­rus of com­plaints re­gard­ing ex­tor­tion­ate tick­et prices, re­stric­tive visa process­es, and those ut­ter­ly non­sen­si­cal hy­dra­tion breaks that seem ex­plic­it­ly de­signed to quench the thirst of cor­po­rate spon­sors rather than the ac­tu­al play­ers. How­ev­er, I am count­ing my lucky stars as I was able to se­cure rea­son­ably priced tick­ets to at­tend this buck­et-list event.

If the songs Bal­ance and Wah Yo Deh Pan by Ayet­ian are in heavy ro­ta­tion on your playlists, or even Valen­tine by Kalon­ji, then you’re al­ready fa­mil­iar with the work of a Point Fortin pro­duc­er who has con­sis­tent­ly been cre­at­ing dance­hall hits. Akiel Ri­ley, al­so known as Black­s­The­Man, con­tin­ues to blaze the trail.

The rainy sea­son had set­tled in­to Trinidad like an un­in­vit­ed rel­a­tive who say they com­ing for a week­end and still there three months lat­er. Every time the clouds gath­er over the vil­lage, some­body would pre­dict rain. Every evening some­body would still get wet.