Ja­son Jones says the fight for full equal­i­ty and hu­man rights for LGBTQ+ peo­ple in Trinidad and To­ba­go is far from over, de­spite his land­mark vic­to­ry at the Privy Coun­cil which has de­crim­i­nalised con­sen­su­al same-sex in­ti­ma­cy.

Venezuela may be will­ing to en­ter­tain po­ten­tial part­ner­ships with the Caribbean, as the re­gion grap­ples with ris­ing elec­tric­i­ty costs and seeks to di­ver­si­fy its en­er­gy sources.

Gold medal­lists Ty Humphrey and Sand­hya Ram­sa­roop spear­head­ed a stel­lar per­for­mance for Trinidad and To­ba­go at the 21st Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean Youth Chess Fes­ti­val in Cos­ta Ri­ca held from No­vem­ber 1 to Sun­day, lead­ing a nine-play­er del­e­ga­tion to a four-medal fin­ish.

When far away from home, there is of­ten a part of us that longs for even the small­est piece of fa­mil­iar­i­ty. That was how 28-year-old Aman­da Ar­joon felt when she first moved near­ly 9,000 miles away from Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Up to a cou­ple months ago, the fu­ture of tech seemed to be a sure thing. The elec­tion of a US Pres­i­dent backed heav­i­ly by the “Tech Bros,” as if a set of racist white bil­lion­aires could take over black-speak, the rise in tech stock, the use of tech in ed­u­ca­tion and the mil­i­tary, the dra­mat­ic in­crease in AI da­ta cen­tres, the talk about how AI was about to rev­o­lu­tionise so­ci­ety, cul­ture, med­i­cine, the West In­dies crick­et team, sex, ca­lyp­so, etc etc, ap­peared to fore­tell a change in hu­man for­tunes if not val­ues.