Eigh­teen for­eign na­tion­als were in­ter­cept­ed by po­lice dur­ing a coastal se­cu­ri­ty op­er­a­tion in Ch­aguara­mas ear­ly Wednes­day morn­ing.

A call is be­ing made for in­vestors, com­pa­nies and fi­nan­cial in­sti­tu­tions to take ad­van­tage of a new fi­nanc­ing av­enue that can chan­nel bil­lions of dol­lars in­to projects rang­ing from re­new­able en­er­gy and cli­mate-re­silient in­fra­struc­ture to hous­ing, health­care and ed­u­ca­tion.

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – Al­lah Mo­ham­mad Ghaz­an­far has been named as the re­place­ment for fel­low Afghanistan spin­ner Mu­jeeb Ur Rah­man in the Bar­ba­dos Tri­dents team for the re­main­der of the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League sea­son.

Amid the mod­ern hus­tle of Port of Spain’s trans­for­ma­tion in­to a bustling com­mer­cial hub, Tran­quil­li­ty Methodist Church stands as a sig­nif­i­cant land­mark and a qui­et, en­dur­ing sen­tinel of the city’s past. Nes­tled at the cor­ner of Tra­garete Road and Vic­to­ria Av­enue, the strik­ing ed­i­fice is a phys­i­cal tes­ta­ment to a com­mu­ni­ty’s re­silience and a rich his­to­ry stretch­ing back more than two cen­turies.

I be­lieve the idea of Caribbean uni­ty – in all its var­i­ous ge­o­graph­i­cal/his­tor­i­cal/po­lit­i­cal man­i­fes­ta­tions – is some­thing that en­chants most (not all) peo­ple who live in our re­gion.