The Min­istry of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices has re­spond­ed to an in­ci­dent in the Laven­tille area where a house col­lapsed due to the heavy rain­fall ex­pe­ri­enced across the coun­try.

Hun­dreds of cer­ti­fied, high-yield­ing dis­ease re­sis­tant rice seeds from Guyana were dis­trib­uted to farm­ers by the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture, Land and Fish­eries (MALF) yes­ter­day. The dis­tri­b­u­tion cer­e­mo­ny took place at the Cen­tral Ex­per­i­ment Sta­tion, Ca­roni North Bank Road, Cen­teno.

DUBLIN, Ire­land – De­spite hav­ing not played a Test match for the West In­dies in al­most four years, West In­dies white-ball cap­tain Shai Hope is still ea­ger to face the red ball once again.

The Art So­ci­ety of Trinidad and To­ba­go host­ed the open­ing of its An­nu­al May Mem­bers’ Ex­hi­bi­tion, Traces of Us, on May 6. The event was a cel­e­bra­tion of lo­cal artistry, at­tract­ing a large crowd of art en­thu­si­asts, com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers, and sup­port­ers of the arts.

The re­cent tor­ren­tial show­ers have high­light­ed the coun­try's lack of pre­pared­ness for the im­pend­ing rainy sea­son, as ev­i­denced by the flood­ing ex­pe­ri­enced over the week­end and the col­lapse of a wall on­to a home in East­ern Quar­ry, Laven­tille, on Mon­day.