Guyana will re­strict the im­por­ta­tion of vapes and va­p­ing prod­ucts un­less they are ap­proved by the rel­e­vant health au­thor­i­ties, Pres­i­dent Dr Mo­hamed Ir­faan Ali has an­nounced.

The In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF) yes­ter­day re­flect­ed a World Bank re­port last week that the T&T econ­o­my de­clined by mi­nus 0.5 per cent last year and is pro­ject­ed to ex­pe­ri­ence re­al growth of 0.2 per cent this year.

Trinidad and To­ba­go’s se­nior net­ball team will not have much of an ac­climi­ti­sa­tion pe­ri­od in neigh­bour­ing Bar­ba­dos, be­fore be­gin­ning their Amer­i­c­as Net­ball World Cup Qual­i­fiers which pass­es off on Mon­day.

Shar­da Patasar has placed Trinidad and To­ba­go on the in­ter­na­tion­al map with her new piece, Au­dac­i­ty of Black Wa­ter. The track is in­clud­ed on Earth Ris­ing, Vol II: Mes­sages from the Pale Blue Dot, part of a three-vol­ume project com­mis­sioned by the UK arts or­gan­i­sa­tion, Ar­tan­gel. Patasar’s work stands out as a rare in­stru­men­tal orig­i­nat­ing from the Caribbean rather than In­dia—and the first sitar com­po­si­tion in the se­ries.

When the PNM shut down Trinidad and To­ba­go’s 101-year-old Petrotrin re­fin­ery in 2018, I con­demned the de­ci­sion. A coun­try with our nat­ur­al re­sources, in­dus­tri­al ex­pe­ri­ence and skilled work­force should not aban­don a re­fin­ery that served this na­tion for more than a cen­tu­ry with­out first ex­haust­ing vi­able al­ter­na­tives to pro­tect the in­dus­try and its work­ers.