Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is brush­ing aside con­cerns that the De­moc­rats’ sweep­ing vic­to­ries in the Unit­ed States midterm elec­tions could un­der­mine Trinidad and To­ba­go’s re­la­tion­ship with Wash­ing­ton, in­sist­ing that co­op­er­a­tion be­tween the two coun­tries will con­tin­ue re­gard­less of who con­trols the Amer­i­can po­lit­i­cal ma­chin­ery.

It is an un­com­fort­able ques­tion be­cause the re­gion clear­ly has many of the in­di­vid­ual com­po­nents, in­clud­ing de­sign­ers, gar­ment man­u­fac­tur­ers, tex­tile and trim sup­pli­ers, ar­ti­sans, print­ers, re­tail­ers, lo­gis­tics providers, and fash­ion schools.

Huge con­grat­u­la­tions to the Trinidad & To­ba­go na­tion­al net­ball team on punch­ing their tick­et to the 2027 Net­ball World Cup in Syd­ney, Aus­tralia. What a mag­nif­i­cent, pro­fes­sion­al per­for­mance from the beloved "Ca­lyp­so Girls".

Grow­ing up in Bar­rack­pore, where his par­ents worked as cane farm­ers, Dr Sharaz Khan learnt ear­ly that suc­cess was not sim­ply about how far one trav­elled in life, but about re­mem­ber­ing where the jour­ney be­gan.

As a ser­vice ex­cel­lence and lead­er­ship im­prove­ment strate­gist, I see busi­ness cul­tures up close: the good, the strug­gling and the tox­ic. When I walk in­to a meet­ing with em­ploy­ees of a busi­ness, tell-tale signs about the cul­ture show up long be­fore the for­mal dis­cus­sions be­gin.