The Friends of Trin­i­ty Col­lege (FOTC) sup­port or­gan­i­sa­tion re­cent­ly held their pop­u­lar an­nu­al Wine and Cheese Fes­ti­val at Trin­i­ty Col­lege East, on a French theme.The group which in­volves alum­ni, par­ent, and com­mu­ni­ty sup­port has been ac­tive in for fundrais­ers for years. Above the FOTC or­gan­is­ing com­mit­tee at the event with chair­man Maria Ruiz at cen­tre in black and white. PHO­TO BY VASHTI SINGH

T&T’s poul­try farm­ers are nav­i­gat­ing a pe­ri­od of pro­duc­tion chal­lenges, wa­ter con­cerns and ris­ing op­er­at­ing costs that are putting pres­sure on the coun­try’s sup­ply of eggs and chick­ens, with con­cerns be­ing ex­pressed that re­duced avail­abil­i­ty could lead to high­er prices of the coun­try’s favourite pro­tein.

There was a time when prepar­ing a na­tion­al team meant get­ting the play­ers to­geth­er, mak­ing sure the uni­forms were packed, sort­ing out the trav­el, and then fo­cus­ing al­most en­tire­ly on what was go­ing to hap­pen once the whis­tle blew.

“For I am per­suad­ed, that nei­ther death, nor life, nor an­gels, nor prin­ci­pal­i­ties, nor pow­ers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any oth­er crea­ture, shall be able to sep­a­rate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Je­sus our Lord.” (Ro­mans 8:38 &39)

Last week, we in­vit­ed the read­er to con­sid­er the State­ment of Case which gave rise to the Dis­pute Res­o­lu­tion Com­mis­sion. We end­ed by ask­ing the ques­tion that has hov­ered over the Com­mis­sion’s work for more than two decades: how did the fis­cal rea­son­ing sur­round­ing To­ba­go move from a pop­u­la­tion-based start­ing point of 4.03 per cent to an up­per bound­ary of 6.9 per cent? The doc­u­ments as­sem­bled around the case re­veal that To­ba­go’s claim rest­ed up­on a de­vel­oped fis­cal ar­chi­tec­ture. Re­cur­rent needs, de­vel­op­ment re­quire­ments, lo­cal­ly gen­er­at­ed rev­enue, pre­dictable na­tion­al trans­fers, bor­row­ing ca­pac­i­ty, and debt sus­tain­abil­i­ty were treat­ed as parts of one eco­nom­ic sys­tem. The per­cent­ages must there­fore be read against that larg­er in­tel­lec­tu­al frame­work.