PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil leader Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of weak lead­er­ship.

Piz­za Hut, the 68-year-old chain that has long strug­gled with grow­ing com­pe­ti­tion and out­dat­ed restau­rants, will be sold for US$2.7 bil­lion by par­ent com­pa­ny Yum Brands.

There is no short­age of in­ter­na­tion­al cognoscen­ti of­fer­ing World Cup analy­sis for tour­na­ment fol­low­ers to wade through so you do not need mine. I will state the ob­vi­ous, though - 2026 is the most com­mer­cial­ized, mon­e­tized and politi­cized World Cup ever. If you are lucky, you have ac­cess to a paid stream­ing ser­vice, a visa to en­ter one of the host coun­tries, or a high priced tick­et to watch a match live. If not, FI­FA has adopt­ed a Pon­tius Pi­late stance and washed its hands of you and your prob­lems. FI­FA claims “foot­ball unites the world and brings peo­ple to­geth­er to cel­e­brate the beau­ti­ful game”. But in 2026, World Cup foot­ball - which should be freely avail­able to or­di­nary work­ing peo­ple via pub­lic tele­vi­sion, easy en­try in­to host coun­tries and rea­son­ably priced tick­ets - is now a com­mod­i­ty with re­strict­ed ac­cess.

For gen­er­a­tions of cit­i­zens, the sprawl­ing com­pound on the West­ern Main Road has been en­tire­ly syn­ony­mous with law en­force­ment. Since the 1890s, near­ly every po­lice of­fi­cer who has sworn to pro­tect and serve our na­tion has marched through its his­toric gates. Yet, long be­fore it be­came the bedrock of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), the St James Bar­racks was a vi­tal mil­i­tary strong­hold built to safe­guard the British Em­pire’s most prized Caribbean pos­ses­sion.

I re­al­ly want to thank all who reached out com­pli­ment­ing last week’s piece. The Part 1. Thank you for shar­ing your sto­ry and your per­son­al ex­pe­ri­ences. We’re all en­cour­aged to pour in­to lives. So once again thanks.