In a press re­lease is­sued this af­ter­noon, ac­cord­ing to Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (MET), “the winds in the low lev­els of the at­mos­phere have de­creased slight­ly but re­main rel­a­tive­ly strong. As a re­sult, there is still a high (70%) po­ten­tial for winds to gusts in ex­cess of 55km/hr, es­pe­cial­ly in the vicin­i­ty of show­ers/thun­der­storms.

The much an­tic­i­pat­ed Trade and In­vest­ment Con­ven­tion (TIC) put on by the T&T Man­u­fac­tur­er’s As­so­ci­a­tion (TTMA) has been post­poned un­til the first quar­ter of 2022.

Na­tion­al women’s hock­ey team coach An­tho­ny “Bumper” Mar­cano says he likes his team tough group as­sign­ment for next year’s Pan Amer­i­can Hock­ey Cup in San­ti­a­go, Chile.

It's easy to re­mem­ber the night Wendy Fitzwilliam vied for the Miss Uni­verse 1998 ti­tle in Hon­olu­lu, Hawaii. Poised, bril­liant, re­splen­dent eyes that ra­di­at­ed a girl­ish charm and hu­mour, topped off with a sul­try jazz voice that cap­tured hearts...she was noth­ing short of gor­geous! Her hair in an el­e­gant up­do, adorned with two hi­bis­cus flow­ers–a nod to the host state, Hawaii, the Caribbean and her home­land, Trinidad and To­ba­go–un­doubt­ed­ly, she had out­shone the oth­ers.

It was po­lit­i­cal the­atre at its worst, with desk thump­ing, shout­ing, mut­ed mi­cro­phones and fre­quent in­ter­rup­tions in the place at the heart of T&T’s democ­ra­cy, the Red House.