Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar last night called out Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Regi­nald Ar­mour, de­mand­ing they apol­o­gise to Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions Roger Gas­pard.

Dutch-Caribbean fin­tech com­pa­ny, Gi­ra­sol Pay­ments, and glob­al tech­nol­o­gy gi­ant Mas­ter­card, have an­nounced a six-year part­ner­ship to build the dig­i­tal pay­ment in­fra­struc­ture for the re­gion.

As Caribbean Air­lines flight BW 458 as­cend­ed away from Pi­ar­co In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port with Cap­tain Andy Cheekes giv­ing an as­sured de­scrip­tion of the flight path to Ja­maica, the scenic and beau­ti­ful T&T, in all her ear­ly morn­ing bril­liance, was a vi­su­al re­minder of all that’s ma­jes­tic about the twin-is­land Re­pub­lic.

Al­ta’s sig­na­ture event, Read­ings Un­der the Trees, re­turned last Sat­ur­day (March 18) af­ter a three-year hia­tus.

Out­go­ing pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes and new­ly in­stalled Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo have once again set the coun­try talk­ing about two is­sues which con­tin­ue to plague this coun­try—racism and misog­y­ny.