For­mer hous­ing min­is­ter and Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment Camille Robin­son-Reg­is has raised con­cerns over the pro­posed award of $3.4 bil­lion in pub­lic hous­ing con­tracts to 11 con­trac­tors, ques­tion­ing the trans­paren­cy and le­gal­i­ty of the process.

T&T’s po­ten­tial re­bound in the oil and gas sec­tor in the near fu­ture, as well as con­tin­ued en­er­gy sec­tor de­vel­op­ment in Guyana and Suri­name, has led to split for­eign as­sess­ments of eco­nom­ic growth and re­cov­ery in the Caribbean for 2026 to 2027.

KINGSTON, Ja­maica – For­mer Olympic 100 me­tre cham­pi­on and world record hold­er, Dono­van Bai­ley, strong­ly be­lieves that Ja­maican track star Kis­hane Thomp­son will dom­i­nate over the dis­tance this sea­son.

When Nathan Dur­gas­ingh re­ceived a pair of Guc­ci slides for his 15th birth­day, they were the on­ly gift he got that year. His friend Rhys Thomp­son sur­prised him with them dur­ing a vis­it to South East Port-of-Spain Sec­ondary, where his moth­er worked in the school cafe­te­ria. He was a fa­mil­iar face, of­ten stop­ping by on his free days to lend a hand. The two quick­ly bond­ed over mu­sic, es­pe­cial­ly drum­ming. Grow­ing up in Laven­tille, Nathan had lit­tle ac­cess to brand-name items, and that act of kind­ness changed his life.

When I was a twen­tysome­thing post­grad­u­ate stu­dent in Jour­nal­ism in the UK, one of my clos­est friends was Pasquale, from Italy. I learned a few things from him… that pas­ta is best added to boil­ing wa­ter and not boiled in wa­ter, and that it is served al dente – hardish, not soft.