The Gov­ern­ment has warned that the T&T Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice’s ex­ten­sion of the Or­ange Lev­el River­ine Flood Alert un­til 6 pm to­day means sev­er­al hours of tor­ren­tial rains, high winds and more flood­ing can be ex­pect­ed.

As the mid-year bud­get re­view ap­proach­es busi­ness cham­ber heads would like to see the for­eign ex­change ac­cess dif­fi­cul­ties, ease of do­ing busi­ness, di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion strate­gies as well as crime and na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty, be at the fore­front.

Phillip Watts, Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs, host­ed a cour­tesy call on Wednes­day with Jon Dean, British High Com­mis­sion­er to T&T, to ex­plore op­por­tu­ni­ties for en­hanced col­lab­o­ra­tion in sport, youth de­vel­op­ment, and in­ter­na­tion­al en­gage­ment.

Ali­cia Knights is a T&T-born vo­cal­ist, writer and per­former with roots in po­et­ry, act­ing and live mu­sic.

The rains came like a long-lost friend this week—un­in­vit­ed, over­whelm­ing, but fa­mil­iar. For three straight days, grey skies blan­ket­ed Trinidad. Not a hint of sun­shine peeked through the thick, sullen clouds. Tor­rents of rain poured down from above, drench­ing rooftops, streets, and moun­tain­sides. As the wa­ter came, so too came the mem­o­ries—clear, vi­brant, and soaked in sen­ti­ment.