The Gov­ern­ment has ex­tend­ed the tran­si­tion­al pe­ri­od for ex­ist­ing scrap met­al deal­ers by an­oth­er year, giv­ing them un­til Oc­to­ber 14, 2027, to meet li­cens­ing and oth­er statu­to­ry re­quire­ments.

Richard Sam­my, the em­bat­tled group vice pres­i­dent of Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Ltd (RFHL), de­part­ed the re­gion's largest fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tion on Wednes­day, bank sources told Guardian Me­dia.

Do not say that I didn’t tell you. In my last col­umn, I wrote that I ex­pect­ed the West In­dies to put up a far stiffer fight in the T20 se­ries against the In­di­ans, but to be com­plete­ly hon­est, they have well and tru­ly ex­ceed­ed even my own op­ti­mistic ex­pec­ta­tions.

For 41-year-old Lu­an­na Dun­can, the fight against stage four breast can­cer is about more than en­dur­ing treat­ment, man­ag­ing pain and hold­ing on to hope.

Every time I trav­el to Fort Laud­erdale, I vis­it a Trinida­di­an fam­i­ly who mi­grat­ed to the Unit­ed States in search of the Amer­i­can dream. They ar­rived with hope, de­ter­mi­na­tion and a will­ing­ness to work hard. They were not look­ing for hand­outs. They want­ed to build some­thing of their own, pro­vide for their fam­i­ly and en­joy the re­wards of their sac­ri­fices.