Leader of Gov­ern­ment Busi­ness Bar­ry Padarath has fired back at the Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), over its de­mand for Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee to step aside from his min­is­te­r­i­al port­fo­lio while his crim­i­nal pro­ceed­ings con­tin­ue, ac­cus­ing the Op­po­si­tion of hypocrisy.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s fi­nan­cial sys­tem re­mains ex­posed to mount­ing sov­er­eign debt, volatile bank­ing sec­tor liq­uid­i­ty, cy­berthreats and house­hold in­debt­ed­ness, with the Cen­tral Bank warn­ing that over­all fi­nan­cial sta­bil­i­ty risks were mod­er­ate to el­e­vat­ed in 2025.

USA-based Trinidad and To­ba­go men’s se­nior team winger Kai­him Thomas says he is ready to an­swer the call once again as T&T looks ahead to their Con­ca­caf Gold Cup play-in en­counter with An­tigua & Bar­bu­da on No­vem­ber 12 and 16.

For about two decades, Don­ny Ben­ny has been keep­ing a cen­turies-old tra­di­tion alive, us­ing clay, fire­wood and tech­niques in­her­it­ed from his par­ents to pro­duce the deya, one of Di­vali’s most recog­nis­able sym­bols.

To­mor­row’s cel­e­bra­tion of Di­vali of­fers an op­por­tu­ni­ty to pause and re­mem­ber a time­less truth: light can over­come dark­ness.