Con­cerns over changes to the elec­toral process of the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) are be­ing raised by for­mer Min­is­ter of Fi­nance un­der the sec­ond Man­ning Ad­min­is­tra­tion, Karen Nunez-Tesheira, who in­tends to con­test the post of Po­lit­i­cal Leader in the par­ty's up­com­ing in­ter­nal elec­tions.

Rat­ing agency Cari­cris has reaf­firmed the cor­po­rate cred­it rat­ings of CariA+ (for­eign and lo­cal cur­ren­cy rat­ings) on the re­gion­al rat­ing scale, and ttA+ on the T&T scale to the T&T Mort­gage Fi­nance Com­pa­ny Ltd (TTMF).

It's still a chal­lenge for na­tion­al coach Shawn Coop­er ahead of the CON­CA­CAF Boys Un­der-17 Cham­pi­onship in Guatemala in Feb­ru­ary.

The 420-year com­mu­ni­ty and very first cap­i­tal/town of Trinidad, St Joseph, orig­i­nal­ly called San José de Oruña, is renowned for its rich­ly di­verse cul­ture and glar­ing promi­nent land­marks such as the old­est cross—one of the biggest in T&T—and the old­est ceme­tery.

The role of a min­is­ter is to for­mu­late and im­ple­ment pol­i­cy which will im­prove a coun­try and the liveli­hoods of its cit­i­zens. They should al­so clear­ly ar­tic­u­late those poli­cies to the pub­lic.