A 34-year-old man has died af­ter a fire de­stroyed his home at Jor­dan Ter­race, D’Abadie, on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

All eyes are on the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) ad­min­is­tra­tion as it pre­pares to un­veil its high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed 2026 na­tion­al bud­get—its first in a decade.

There comes a point in every cam­paign when a team’s be­lief is test­ed to its core. For T&T, that mo­ment came in Kingston, Ja­maica on Tues­day night. A 2-0 de­feat to Ja­maica leaves us star­ing at a path where noth­ing less than vic­to­ry in our next two match­es will do.

In the space of just 40 days, what be­gan as a chance con­ver­sa­tion at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah turned in­to a sto­ry that would change lives: two teenage girls, large­ly over­looked on the lo­cal ath­let­ics cir­cuit, sud­den­ly pack­ing their bags for Texas on full ath­let­ic schol­ar­ships.

The ex­change rate is the price of do­mes­tic cur­ren­cy in terms of for­eign cur­ren­cy and is there­fore close­ly linked to mon­e­tary pol­i­cy, which in­flu­ences fi­nan­cial as­set prices and in­ter­est rates. For coun­tries like Trinidad and To­ba­go, with open economies heav­i­ly de­pen­dent on in­ter­na­tion­al trade, it is ar­guably the most im­por­tant pol­i­cy mea­sure, as it un­der­pins every area of eco­nom­ic ac­tiv­i­ty.