Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, Gary Grif­fith, has launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the re­turn of $22 mil­lion in cash. The mon­ey was seized by of­fi­cers of the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Re­sponse Team (SORT) who ex­e­cut­ed a search war­rant at a house where it was al­leged that per­sons were op­er­at­ing a Pyra­mid Scheme.

A Work­ing Group re­port au­thored by the In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank (IDB) and the Cen­tre for Glob­al De­vel­op­ment (CGD) has re­vealed that the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic has giv­en rise to chal­lenges in the fi­nan­cial sys­tems of coun­tries in Latin Amer­i­ca and Caribbean coun­tries.

Af­ter six months of le­gal wran­gling be­tween the Trinidad and To­ba­go Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) and FI­FA, the lo­cal body was di­rect­ed by the mem­ber­ship to with­draw its court mat­ter against the world gov­ern­ing body fol­low­ing an in­for­mal vir­tu­al meet­ing of stake­hold­ers on Tues­day night con­vened by oust­ed TTFA pres­i­dent William Wal­lace and his ex­ec­u­tives.

When an ice cream ven­dor at the World’s Fair in St Louis, Mis­souri, USA, in 1904 ran out of pa­per cups, he was next to a waf­fle ven­dor who rolled the waf­fles in­to cones to hold the ice cream and this was where the ice-cream cone was cre­at­ed.

I must con­fess that though I have served in se­nior po­si­tions in the me­dia, at the com­mu­ni­ty lev­el, and with­in pro­fes­sion­al or­gan­i­sa­tions, I am not nat­u­ral­ly in­clined to grav­i­tate to­ward lec­tures and events fo­cus­ing on lead­er­ship de­vel­op­ment and prac­tice.