For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers says Gov­ern­ment will act in the best in­ter­est of the pop­u­la­tion if any con­flict were ever to arise in the re­gion, but stressed that spec­u­la­tion about war or regime change has no ba­sis in the facts pre­sent­ed to Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Share­hold­ers of Unilever Caribbean Ltd will re­ceive a div­i­dend pay­out of $4.56 per share on De­cem­ber 15, com­pris­ing an in­ter­im div­i­dend of $0.38 and a spe­cial div­i­dend of $4.18.

Ken­ton Fran­cois, Samuel Bona­parte, and Melis­sa Nanan, along­side Uni­fied Part­ners Jalila Best and Aadil Ali John, are in Guade­loupe to rep­re­sent T&T at the Spe­cial Olympics Caribbean 3x3 Uni­fied Bas­ket­ball Games. The com­pe­ti­tion opened No­vem­ber 13 in Sainte Glaude, Bas­seterre, Guade­loupe, and will run un­til No­vem­ber 16.

Every morn­ing, 65-year-old Shan­ti sits in her wheel­chair at her win­dow, wait­ing for her daugh­ter’s car. Her daugh­ter has al­ready sent her chil­dren off to school and now rush­es to her moth­er’s home to help her show­er and get dressed. Shan­ti was once a busi­ness­woman; she built a suc­cess­ful roti shop af­ter her hus­band died 15 years ago.