The PNM’s hold on San Fer­nan­do East, un­bro­ken since the con­stituen­cy was cre­at­ed in 1967, is be­ing deemed un­der threat af­ter an in­ter­nal com­mit­tee found MP Bri­an Man­ning’s pop­u­lar­i­ty “may be dwin­dling” amid an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to his bit­ter rup­ture with the con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive.

A 33-year-old Trinida­di­an na­tion­al and law­ful per­ma­nent Unit­ed States res­i­dent has plead­ed guilty to sex traf­fick­ing and ad­mit­ted to kid­nap­ping six ad­di­tion­al women.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s two-time Olympic medal­list Keshorn Wal­cott end­ed his run of five ma­jor meets with­out a medal when he copped the bronze medal at the Wan­da Di­a­mond League in Brus­sels, Bel­gium on Sat­ur­day.

Years be­fore the term “pow­er cou­ple” be­came a thing, Carl and Car­ol Ja­cobs were al­ready a de­f­i­n­i­tion of the id­iom. The two have rid­den the mu­sic ex­press for over half a cen­tu­ry as a cou­ple, from do­ing back­ground vo­cals to lead vo­cals on lo­cal, re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al stages, with each be­ing able to hold their own in the spot­light.

Diplo­ma­cy with Venezuela is back on the ta­ble, and that is nei­ther sur­pris­ing nor in­her­ent­ly trou­bling. Trinidad and To­ba­go can­not change its ge­og­ra­phy. Venezuela is our clos­est ma­jor neigh­bour and there are in­ter­ests we can­not sim­ply wish away. En­er­gy, trade, se­cu­ri­ty, the en­vi­ron­ment and the man­age­ment of our shared mar­itime space.