Three peo­ple, in­clud­ing the cap­tain of the ill-fat­ed MV Bari­ma that sank on Ju­ly 18, killing more than 100 peo­ple, ap­peared in court on Mon­day, but the mat­ter was ad­journed to Sep­tem­ber 14.

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US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s move to take con­trol of 65 mil­lion bar­rels of Venezue­lan oil could cre­ate an un­ex­pect­ed open­ing for Trinidad and To­ba­go, par­tic­u­lar­ly for the long-stalled Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery.

Chinelle Hen­ry pulled off a stun­ning last-ball heist at Kens­ing­ton Oval in Bar­ba­dos, pow­er­ing Ja­maica Em­press to a nail-bit­ing one-wick­et vic­to­ry on Sun­day over Guyana Ama­zon War­riors in their Li­ma­col WC­PL de­but.

Amid the mod­ern hus­tle of Port of Spain’s trans­for­ma­tion in­to a bustling com­mer­cial hub, Tran­quil­li­ty Methodist Church stands as a sig­nif­i­cant land­mark and a qui­et, en­dur­ing sen­tinel of the city’s past. Nes­tled at the cor­ner of Tra­garete Road and Vic­to­ria Av­enue, the strik­ing ed­i­fice is a phys­i­cal tes­ta­ment to a com­mu­ni­ty’s re­silience and a rich his­to­ry stretch­ing back more than two cen­turies.

To­day, al­most 200,000 school chil­dren and their 15,000 teach­ers will be mak­ing their way to schools across the coun­try. The rush-hour traf­fic will al­so have re­turned with them.