The or­gan­is­er of a protest and her moth­er, who were joint­ly ar­rest­ed by po­lice dur­ing a demon­stra­tion near the of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) on Wednes­day af­ter­noon, have not been ar­rest­ed as of 8:47 am to­day.

Moth­er­hood in Trinidad and To­ba­go has al­ways car­ried deep cul­tur­al mean­ing, but in 2026, the role of the mod­ern Trin­bag­on­ian moth­er has evolved in­to some­thing even more com­plex. She is care­giv­er, fi­nan­cial plan­ner, emo­tion­al an­chor, de­ci­sion-mak­er and of­ten the pri­ma­ry ar­chi­tect of house­hold sur­vival. A re­cent na­tion­al study of 1,000 moth­ers and pri­ma­ry care­givers across T&T, con­duct­ed by Lu­cent Re­search Lim­it­ed in May 2026, paints a vivid pic­ture of women car­ry­ing im­mense re­spon­si­bil­i­ty while re­main­ing deeply hope­ful for the fu­ture of their chil­dren.

ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – Hav­ing been dom­i­nant at home in One Day In­ter­na­tion­als (ODIs) over the past three years, West In­dies head coach Daren Sam­my ex­pects that trend to con­tin­ue when they face Sri Lan­ka in a three-match se­ries in ex­act­ly a week.

Hid­den deep with­in the folds of Trinidad’s North­ern Range, the vil­lage of Morne La Croix car­ries a lega­cy shaped by re­silience, iso­la­tion and gen­er­a­tions of peo­ple who learned to sur­vive from the land and sea around them.

As Trinidad and To­ba­go nav­i­gates the com­plex­i­ties of the 21st cen­tu­ry - seek­ing to deep­en di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion for yet an­oth­er time, to achieve dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion for the first time af­ter sev­er­al false starts and to forge so­cial co­he­sion in a more mean­ing­ful way, a per­sis­tent as­pi­ra­tion - I am won­der­ing how the In­do-Trinida­di­an com­mu­ni­ty should cel­e­brate the 181st an­niver­sary of In­di­an Ar­rival Day more mean­ing­ful­ly?