The Amer­i­can Cham­ber of Com­merce of Trinidad and To­ba­go (AM­CHAM T&T) has wel­comed the an­nounce­ment by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad Bisses­sar and Unit­ed States Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio re­gard­ing U.S. sup­port for the Drag­on Gas pro­pos­al.

As the coun­try pre­pares for the up­com­ing na­tion­al 2026 bud­get ex­pect­ed to be de­liv­ered ear­ly next month, UWI pro­fes­sor of eco­nom­ics Roger Ho­sein says there needs to be a strate­gic eco­nom­ic push to take the coun­try for­ward.

In a scathing in­dict­ment of the cur­rent state of West In­dies crick­et, for­mer Trinidad and To­ba­go Prime Min­is­ter and ex-CARI­COM crick­et com­mit­tee head Dr Kei­th Row­ley has called for a com­plete and im­me­di­ate “re­set,” la­belling the team’s his­toric 90-run ca­pit­u­la­tion to Nepal a “dis­as­ter” that de­mands rad­i­cal ac­tion.

Fe­lix Roach was a fa­mil­iar fig­ure be­hind the pi­ano and or­gan. Af­fec­tion­ate­ly called “Un­cle Fe” and “Sug­ar Fin­gers,” he guid­ed choirs and en­ter­tained au­di­ences for decades.

If you were on the Caribbean beat as a jour­nal­ist in the late 1980s/ear­ly 1990s, you would have recog­nised the late Guyanese leader, Dr Ched­di Ja­gan, as one of the more de­ter­mined voic­es for a new glob­al de­vel­op­men­tal par­a­digm, with this part of the world as a key fo­cal point.