New­ly es­tab­lished state en­er­gy com­pa­ny Paria Fu­el might op­er­ate as a hold­ing com­pa­ny pend­ing the farm­ing out of Petrotrin’s re­fin­ery op­er­a­tions. That is the view of en­er­gy ex­pert An­tho­ny Paul who ex­pects that Paria, one of the two new com­pa­nies an­nounced as the suc­ces­sor to Petrotrin, will im­port fu­el for lo­cal and re­gion­al use as “a tran­si­to­ry com­pa­ny un­til re­fin­ing re­sumes.”

Turn­around ex­pert An­tho­ny Watkins says the de­ci­sion to start afresh at state owned Petrotrin was the right one. Giv­en the his­to­ry of the com­pa­ny, noth­ing else could have been done.

A new gen­er­a­tion of ba­by prod­ucts has been launched by John­son & John­son that fea­ture 90 per cent nat­ur­al in­gre­di­ents and a new de­sign.

In 2008, T&T record­ed a debt/GDP ra­tio of 14 per cent (a record low), just one decade lat­er this im­por­tant ra­tio stands at a shock­ing 61 per cent.

Gov­ern­ment will be­gin for­mal ne­go­ti­a­tions with Bei­jing Con­struc­tion by mid-month to en­sure the com­mence­ment date for the planned Phoenix Park In­dus­tri­al Es­tate will “in fact be Jan­u­ary 2019,” Trade Min­is­ter Paula Gopee-Scoon said yes­ter­day.

New­ly in­stalled pres­i­dent of the Su­per­mar­ket As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (SATT) Ra­jiv Diptee says the sec­tor will suf­fer sig­nif­i­cant neg­a­tive im­pact from the re­trench­ment of Petrotrin work­ers. Hard­est hit, he said, will be the su­per­mar­kets in south Trinidad.

Over­all mar­ket ac­tiv­i­ty re­sult­ed from trad­ing in 15 se­cu­ri­ties of which five ad­vanced, three de­clined and sev­en trad­ed firm.

The sig­nif­i­cant growth in the petro­chem­i­cal sec­tor has been a ma­jor con­trib­u­tor to what Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert de­scribes as a turn­around of the econ­o­my.

Over­all mar­ket ac­tiv­i­ty re­sult­ed from trad­ing in 15 se­cu­ri­ties of which five ad­vanced, three de­clined and sev­en trad­ed firm.

The sig­nif­i­cant growth in the petro­chem­i­cal sec­tor has been a ma­jor con­trib­u­tor to what Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert de­scribes as a turn­around of the econ­o­my.

Trade Min­is­ter Paula Gopee-Scoon ad­mit­ted that the Row­ley ad­min­is­tra­tion might very well suf­fer loss­es be­cause of the de­ci­sion to close the Petrotrin. At the time she was field­ing ques­tions from the au­di­ence at a post-Bud­get sym­po­sium host­ed by Ch­agua­nas Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce at the Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion’s Au­di­to­ri­um on Thurs­day night.

BHP Bil­li­ton’s Bon­gos-2 well was a sig­nif­i­cant gas dis­cov­ery in deep wa­ter, ac­cord­ing to mul­ti­ple sources in the com­pa­ny.

The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies St. Au­gus­tine and Mona will re­spec­tive­ly con­fer the Hon­orary Doc­tor of Laws (LLD) up­on Shiv­nar­ine 'Tiger' Chan­der­paul and Michael Hold­ing for their ex­cel­lent con­tri­bu­tion to crick­et at their re­spec­tive 2018 grad­u­a­tion cer­e­monies. Chan­der­paul will be ho­n­oured along with oth­er dis­tin­guished per­son­al­i­ties- Paula Lu­cie-Smith, Pro­fes­sor Der­mot Kelle­her, Hu­bert In­gra­ham and Win­ston 'Shad­ow' Bai­ley dur­ing this week's grad­u­a­tion cer­e­mo­ny at the St. Au­gus­tine cam­pus, Oc­to­ber 25-27. Hold­ing will be ho­n­oured along with eight (8) oth­er re­cip­i­ents at Mona's grad­u­a­tion, No­vem­ber 2-3.

GUWA­HATI, In­dia – Left-han­der Shim­ron Het­my­er struck a dash­ing hun­dred but Ro­hit Shar­ma and cap­tain Vi­rat Kohli an­swered with high-qual­i­ty cen­turies of their own, as In­dia hard­ly broke a sweat in chas­ing down a com­pet­i­tive 300-plus to­tal to eas­i­ly win the open­ing One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al on Sun­day.

Fol­low­ing on the heels of T&T se­nior women’s foot­ball team's failed cam­paign at the CON­CA­CAF Women’s Cham­pi­onship, William Wal­lace, pres­i­dent of the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL), has raised con­cerns about the na­tion­al Un­der-20 men team’s readi­ness for the up­com­ing World Cup qual­i­fy­ing tour­na­ment in Flori­da, USA.

As the fi­nal pre­lim­i­nary round of match­es in Group A of the Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Su­per50 plays off to­day, the fo­cus will be on the weath­er, af­ter heavy rains washed out the two match­es that were card­ed on Fri­day.

Strak­er Nets and De­tour Shak At­tack on Thurs­day night booked their spots in the Men's Pre­mier Di­vi­sion " Fi­nal Four" com­pe­ti­tion of the Bar­ry Stew­art Bas­ket­ball League, with vic­to­ries at the Mal­oney In­door Sports Are­na.

Heavy rains through­out the day washed out both match­es in the sev­enth round of the CWI Su­per50 Tour­na­ment crick­et se­ries sched­uled for the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do yes­ter­day.

It will be a bat­tle for the lead­er­ship po­si­tion in the Pre­mier Di­vi­sion of the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) as de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege (San Fer­nan­do) and San Juan North Sec­ondary col­lide at the San Juan school ground from 3:40 pm to­day.

Tyrese Coop­er scored the win­ner for Spey­side High School to keep them in the race for the To­ba­go Zone ti­tle in the Girls Cham­pi­onships of the Shell/First Cit­i­zens Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League.

Strak­er Nets and De­tour Shak At­tack on Thurs­day night booked their spots in the Men's Pre­mier Di­vi­sion " Fi­nal Four" com­pe­ti­tion of the Bar­ry Stew­art Bas­ket­ball League, with vic­to­ries at the Mal­oney In­door Sports Are­na.

Heavy rains through­out the day washed out both match­es in the sev­enth round of the CWI Su­per50 Tour­na­ment crick­et se­ries sched­uled for the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do yes­ter­day.

It will be a bat­tle for the lead­er­ship po­si­tion in the Pre­mier Di­vi­sion of the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) as de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege (San Fer­nan­do) and San Juan North Sec­ondary col­lide at the San Juan school ground from 3:40 pm to­day.

Tyrese Coop­er scored the win­ner for Spey­side High School to keep them in the race for the To­ba­go Zone ti­tle in the Girls Cham­pi­onships of the Shell/First Cit­i­zens Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League.

Pip Bell, a breast can­cer nurse with the Mc­Grath Foun­da­tion, says it’s im­por­tant that women with breast can­cer are kind to them­selves. She’s put to­geth­er some ideas of sim­ple things they can do each day to help.

There is an im­pres­sive and grow­ing fam­i­ly of fe­male triath­letes in T&T. Fierce and re­silient women are tak­ing on the chal­lenge of this de­mand­ing sport and prov­ing that their sport is three times bet­ter than yours! To­day, in this Breast Can­cer Aware­ness month of Oc­to­ber, we fea­ture three lo­cal fe­male triath­letes who, aside from tak­ing on re­mark­able ath­let­ic en­deav­ours, have al­so been im­pact­ed by breast can­cer.

There are a few mis­takes that pro­fes­sion­al chefs al­most nev­er make. Of course, they were trained in their field but, this al­most al­ways puts the edge on their cook­ing, mak­ing you feel the mas­ter of their art. Sim­ple tech­niques that they have down­packed can make the world of a dif­fer­ence to ba­sic meals you’re al­ready prepar­ing in your kitchen. (Re­lax, we’re not try­ing to change your granny’s sweet bread recipe here.) They’re just mi­nor ad­just­ments that al­most every home cook can ben­e­fit from. Here are a few of the most com­mon mis­takes chefs nev­er make. Fix these and maybe the pros won’t have any­thing on your cook­ing.

Liv­ing on an is­land, it’s safe to say that Trin­bag­o­ni­ans are pret­ty fa­mil­iar with seafood. From shrimp to conchs to blue mar­lin, a good piece of meat from the sea is nev­er wast­ed. We usu­al­ly cur­ry, stew or bake our seafood, nev­er ex­plor­ing their full po­ten­tial. This week Chef Rishi is here to help—suc­cu­lent shrimp, juicy clams and flaky, meaty white fish are cel­e­brat­ed in gourmet dish­es with a lo­cal twist. One dish is per­fect for date night while the oth­er is great to treat a crowd. Take ad­van­tage of the gor­geous, fresh seafood around our tiny is­lands and try some­thing a lit­tle dif­fer­ent this week.

JO­HAN­NA NA­HOUS: I’m 24 years old, and was born and raised in Trinidad. In 2012, I be­gan my Un­der­grad­u­ate de­gree in the U.K., and since then I have lived, stud­ied and gained ex­pe­ri­ence in Eng­land, Trinidad, Barcelona and Berlin.

Life can be tough at times. We get knocked down, we get up and try again. When­ev­er I need help, I gen­er­al­ly turn to books, specif­i­cal­ly books writ­ten by women who strug­gled with the things I am cur­rent­ly deal­ing with. Gone are the days of gener­ic “self-help.” I crave mem­oirs and au­to­bi­ogra­phies that are re­al, of­fer prac­ti­cal tips, and are em­pa­thet­ic to my sit­u­a­tion. If you are strug­gling in any area of your life or crav­ing a good mem­oir that of­fers sound ad­vice, the sto­ries of these five women are just what you need.

Let’s be re­al: we live in the trop­ics. Beach limes and boat cruis­es are ba­si­cal­ly a part of our every­day life, and we’ve learned to ac­cept that. But that doesn’t mean that we al­ways feel beach-ready. In fact, some­times the last thing we want to do is stand up in a biki­ni or bathing suit and pose and act con­fi­dent, be­cause the re­al­i­ty is, some­times we’re just not. And that’s okay, but it’s some­thing that we have to con­tin­ue to work on, no mat­ter our shape or size.

The Just Be­cause Foun­da­tion Pae­di­atric Spe­cial­ty Unit (JBF PSU) was cer­e­mo­ni­al­ly launched on No­vem­ber 14th, 2008. Pri­or to this, there were three Gen­er­al Pae­di­atric Wards, Med 1, Med 2 and Sur­gi­cal. Chil­dren di­ag­nosed with can­cer were ad­mit­ted to the cu­bi­cles, which ac­com­mo­dat­ed one pa­tient on­ly. Some of the pa­tients at the time and their par­ents, were in­vit­ed to the launch and they were able to tour the brand new ward. That’s when we met Za­ckary Ra­goonath and his dad, Su­ruj. I over­heard Zac say­ing to his dad, “I wish I had one more treat­ment, so I could be on this ward, just one more treat­ment dad”. His dad was fu­ri­ous. Af­ter all Zac, who was di­ag­nosed with T-Cell Lym­phoblas­tic Lym­phoma (LL) at the age of 8 years old had just com­plet­ed two years of treat­ment.

Let’s be re­al: we live in the trop­ics. Beach limes and boat cruis­es are ba­si­cal­ly a part of our every­day life, and we’ve learned to ac­cept that. But that doesn’t mean that we al­ways feel beach-ready. In fact, some­times the last thing we want to do is stand up in a biki­ni or bathing suit and pose and act con­fi­dent, be­cause the re­al­i­ty is, some­times we’re just not. And that’s okay, but it’s some­thing that we have to con­tin­ue to work on, no mat­ter our shape or size.

The Just Be­cause Foun­da­tion Pae­di­atric Spe­cial­ty Unit (JBF PSU) was cer­e­mo­ni­al­ly launched on No­vem­ber 14th, 2008. Pri­or to this, there were three Gen­er­al Pae­di­atric Wards, Med 1, Med 2 and Sur­gi­cal. Chil­dren di­ag­nosed with can­cer were ad­mit­ted to the cu­bi­cles, which ac­com­mo­dat­ed one pa­tient on­ly. Some of the pa­tients at the time and their par­ents, were in­vit­ed to the launch and they were able to tour the brand new ward. That’s when we met Za­ckary Ra­goonath and his dad, Su­ruj. I over­heard Zac say­ing to his dad, “I wish I had one more treat­ment, so I could be on this ward, just one more treat­ment dad”. His dad was fu­ri­ous. Af­ter all Zac, who was di­ag­nosed with T-Cell Lym­phoblas­tic Lym­phoma (LL) at the age of 8 years old had just com­plet­ed two years of treat­ment.

There is still hope; every­one has times in his or her life that are try­ing. What mat­ters is not what hap­pens to us but, how we re­act to these hic­cups in our lives. Be­liefs have the pow­er to cre­ate and the pow­er to de­stroy. Hu­man be­ings have the awe­some abil­i­ty to take any ex­pe­ri­ence of their lives and cre­ate a mean­ing that dis-em­pow­ers them or, one that can lit­er­al­ly save their lives.

You should ex­pect strength gains af­ter about four to six weeks of con­sis­tent train­ing, and a prop­er nu­tri­tion pro­gram. So if you’re work­ing to­ward your one-rep max­i­mum squat (or, the most weight you can safe­ly squat for a sin­gle rep), but your num­bers haven’t budged af­ter six weeks, you may need to tweak your in­ten­si­ty or take a look at what and how much you’ve been con­sum­ing.

It is very dif­fi­cult to write about the Petrotrin saga due to the lim­it­ed in­for­ma­tion that is made avail­able to the pub­lic. We live in a cor­rupt na­tion that is al­ways chang­ing and we have lit­tle choice but to find a way to deal with that change. The Petrotrin is­sue and the re­cent acts of sab­o­tage against the oil re­fin­ery fur­ther high­light the fact that peo­ple are re­sis­tant to change. Change in­ter­feres with au­ton­o­my and makes peo­ple feel that they’ve lost con­trol over their 'so-called' ter­ri­to­ry. Oil­fields Work­ers' Trade Union (OW­TU) pres­i­dent gen­er­al An­cel Ro­get led hun­dreds of Petrotrin work­ers on a his­toric "Moth­er of All March­es" to save the jobs of 4,800 oil work­ers. Led by their at­tor­ney Dou­glas Mendes SC, they pre­sent­ed their case to the In­dus­tri­al Court and they have been suc­cess­ful in halt­ing Petrotrin’s re­trench­ment ex­er­cise.

Civ­il en­gi­neers un­der­stand the con­cept of struc­tur­al in­tegri­ty. As we live in an earth­quake and hur­ri­cane zone, phys­i­cal struc­tures and build­ings must be de­signed to with­stand these forces of na­ture. CLI­CO's “One Wood­brook Place” and the new gov­ern­ment build­ings and high ris­es re­spond­ed well to the last earth­quake. This was not Grena­da's 2004 hur­ri­cane ex­pe­ri­ence when the new­ly con­struct­ed sta­di­um, built with T&T civ­il en­gi­neer­ing ex­per­tise, and al­most every­thing else was flat­tened.

"Young Peo­ple and Men­tal Health in a Chang­ing World" is the theme for World Men­tal Health Day, Oc­to­ber 10, 2018. A few weeks ago I was sit­ting in a friend’s liv­ing room in Kings­bury, Lon­don, tak­ing a respite, be­fore head­ing to a con­fer­ence in Italy, and do­ing what I en­joy do­ing, read­ing lo­cal news­pa­pers. It was the Dai­ly Mail of Sat­ur­day 15 Sep­tem­ber 2018, and when I see a head­line in very bold, huge type, spread across Pages 8 & 9, I pay at­ten­tion: The head­line read "Smash­ing my sons’ iPads is the best thing I’ve ever done for them."