Act­ing Chief Mag­is­trate Bri­an Dabideen has cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly de­nied any wrong­do­ing fol­low­ing the ex­e­cu­tion of a search war­rant by the po­lice at his Gulf View, San Fer­nan­do, res­i­dence on Mon­day.

Com­ing on the heels of ma­jor top-lev­el ex­ec­u­tive an­nounce­ments across Re­pub­lic Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings Ltd (RFHL), the Port-of-Spain-head­quar­tered re­gion­al bank­ing group con­firmed that Ed­ward Ince, a di­rec­tor of its T&T sub­sidiary Re­pub­lic Bank Ltd, had re­signed.

Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) pres­i­dent Dr. Kishore Shal­low be­lieves the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil’s (ICC) fi­nan­cial dis­tri­b­u­tion and bi­lat­er­al broad­cast­ing rev­enue mod­els should be re­viewed to pro­vide greater ben­e­fits for small­er crick­et­ing na­tions but in­sists the re­gion­al gov­ern­ing body re­mains com­fort­able with its cur­rent arrange­ments.

Shar­da Patasar has placed Trinidad and To­ba­go on the in­ter­na­tion­al map with her new piece, Au­dac­i­ty of Black Wa­ter. The track is in­clud­ed on Earth Ris­ing, Vol II: Mes­sages from the Pale Blue Dot, part of a three-vol­ume project com­mis­sioned by the UK arts or­gan­i­sa­tion, Ar­tan­gel. Patasar’s work stands out as a rare in­stru­men­tal orig­i­nat­ing from the Caribbean rather than In­dia—and the first sitar com­po­si­tion in the se­ries.

Our coun­try is steeped in cul­ture and tra­di­tion. Our blend of African and In­di­an in­flu­ences cre­ates a unique iden­ti­ty, set­ting us apart from many oth­er coun­tries and is­lands. Our is­land’s sto­ry stems from mi­gra­tion, coloni­sa­tion, and re­silience. Our mu­sic, food, and fes­ti­vals re­flect where we came from, the strug­gles we en­dured, and the hope for the fu­ture we are build­ing. Some tra­di­tions will last much longer than oth­ers, and some tra­di­tions may be so dat­ed that the time for change has come.