A lit­tle over six years af­ter be­ing freed of kid­nap­ping and mur­der­ing busi­ness­woman Vin­dra Naipaul-Cool­man, nine Diego Mar­tin men are each set to re­ceive $2.1 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion, while the state will have to pay out some $20 mil­lion over­all for the failed case.

Col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween the gov­ern­ment and en­er­gy sec­tor stake­hold­ers must be sus­tained to en­sure this coun­try gets the best val­ue for mon­ey go­ing for­ward.

BU­L­AWAYO – Fast bowler Shan­non Gabriel and left-arm spin­ner Gu­dakesh Motie col­lect­ed two wick­ets apiece as West In­dies’ three-day game against a Zim­bab­we XI fin­ished in a draw in Zim­bab­we on Mon­day.

Frag­ments of men­tal and phys­i­cal pho­tographs are what Trinida­di­an-born British au­thor and po­et An­tho­ny Joseph pieced to­geth­er to bring to life the per­sona of his fa­ther, Al­bert, who was large­ly ab­sent. Con­fronting this ab­sence through po­et­ry, he penned Son­nets for Al­bert and cap­tured the 2022 TS Eliot prize.

Some sec­tors of the cit­i­zen­ry were tak­en aback at the dis­turb­ing scenes dur­ing the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ con­ven­tion on Sun­day, where mem­bers en­gaged in heat­ed ver­bal and phys­i­cal clash­es over Po­lit­i­cal Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s suit­abil­i­ty to lead the par­ty fur­ther.