Twelve moth­ers from com­mu­ni­ties across Trinidad and To­ba­go will com­pete for the ti­tle of Ms Mag­nif­i­cent Mom 2026 to­mor­row at the Cas­ca­dia Ho­tel, St Ann’s

Cari­CRIS has as­signed an in­vest­ment-grade cred­it rat­ings to the Gov­ern­ment of Ja­maica, with a sta­ble out­look, cit­ing the coun­try’s fis­cal com­mit­ments, debt-re­duc­tion strat­e­gy and con­tin­ued fi­nan­cial sec­tor sta­bil­i­ty de­spite the eco­nom­ic im­pact of Hur­ri­cane Melis­sa.

GEORGE­TOWN – Aus­tralia booked their spot in the fi­nal of the In­ter­na­tion­al Mas­ters Crick­et (IMC) Over-40s World Cup with a com­fort­able four-wick­et win over South Africa in the sec­ond semi­fi­nal in Guyana on Thurs­day.

South­ern Trinidad’s for­got­ten his­to­ry is be­ing brought to light through ar­chae­o­log­i­cal re­search that is un­cov­er­ing ev­i­dence of the lives of In­dige­nous peo­ple, in­den­tured labour­ers and the com­mu­ni­ties they built, while train­ing a new gen­er­a­tion of lo­cal re­searchers to pre­serve the coun­try’s her­itage.

Re­cent­ly, I wrote about peo­ple strug­gling to sur­vive in an eco­nom­ic sys­tem that of­ten places prof­it above hu­man­i­ty. The poor and work­ing class help sus­tain that sys­tem, yet, are treat­ed as ex­pend­able by banks and fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions when they fall in­to fi­nan­cial dif­fi­cul­ty.