For­mer Peo­ple’s Part­ner­ship gov­ern­ment min­is­ter Win­ston Dook­er­an is urg­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go to stand by Cu­ba, in­sist­ing that the Caribbean na­tion’s sov­er­eign­ty must be re­spect­ed and its peo­ple de­fend­ed.

Trinidad and To­ba­go ex­port­ed TT$33.4 mil­lion in goods to Venezuela and im­port­ed TT$34.7 mil­lion in 2025, but the Gov­ern­ment is seek­ing to ex­pand trade as diplo­mat­ic re­la­tions be­tween the two coun­tries re­sume af­ter a year of fall­out.

With its lead now trimmed to two points due to a dis­ci­pli­nary rul­ing in favour of Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary, leader St Mary’s Col­lege will face a stern test to hold on to top spot in the 17-team Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) Boys Pre­mier Di­vi­sion when it hosts St Bene­dict’s Col­lege at Ser­pen­tine Road in St Clair, Port-of-Spain.

South­ern Trinidad’s for­got­ten his­to­ry is be­ing brought to light through ar­chae­o­log­i­cal re­search that is un­cov­er­ing ev­i­dence of the lives of In­dige­nous peo­ple, in­den­tured labour­ers and the com­mu­ni­ties they built, while train­ing a new gen­er­a­tion of lo­cal re­searchers to pre­serve the coun­try’s her­itage.

Now ap­proach­ing the end of Pink Oc­to­ber, when the breast can­cer mes­sage is clear­ly in the spot­light, the ques­tion re­mains whether this an­nu­al surge tru­ly im­proves women’s re­pro­duc­tive-health aware­ness and out­comes.