As Trinidad and To­ba­go pre­pares for a more tech­nol­o­gy-dri­ven and en­er­gy-con­scious fu­ture, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) has launched its SPARK Ini­tia­tive—School Part­ner­ship for Aware­ness, Re­spon­si­bil­i­ty & Knowl­edge—aimed at ex­pos­ing sec­ondary school stu­dents to mod­ern elec­tric­i­ty sys­tems and emerg­ing ca­reers in the en­er­gy sec­tor as part of its 80th an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tions.

The In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF) yes­ter­day pro­ject­ed that the T&T econ­o­my would grow by 0.8 per cent in 2026, and that in­fla­tion is ex­pect­ed to rise tem­porar­i­ly to around 3.1 per cent this year.

LON­DON, Eng­land – Man­ches­ter City’s Khadi­ja ‘Bun­ny’ Shaw cap­tured an­oth­er cov­et­ed award when she was named WSL Foot­ball’s Play­er of the Sea­son fol­low­ing an im­pres­sive show­ing in the just con­clud­ed Women’s Su­per League (WSL).

When Dionne Ovid be­came a nurse 16 years ago, it was just as a way of se­cur­ing per­ma­nent em­ploy­ment.

Pres­i­dents Don­ald Trump and Xi Jin­ping held their much-an­tic­i­pat­ed sum­mit in Bei­jing, but with­out any break­through on the big is­sues—trade and the Iran war, for ex­am­ple. There were no ma­jor busi­ness deals ei­ther, de­spite sev­er­al top bil­lion­aire US ex­ec­u­tives ac­com­pa­ny­ing their pres­i­dent.