For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers is ex­press­ing con­fi­dence that Trinidad and To­ba­go will se­cure the votes need­ed to win a non-per­ma­nent seat on the Unit­ed Na­tions Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil (UN­SC), but stopped short of de­clar­ing the out­come a cer­tain­ty ahead of this week’s bal­lot.

The ANSA McAL Group host­ed its Grow­ing with Guyana net­work­ing cock­tail and busi­ness show­case at the Mar­riott in George­town, bring­ing to­geth­er the Pres­i­dent of the Co­op­er­a­tive Re­pub­lic of Guyana, Dr Mo­hamed Ir­faan Ali, along­side se­nior gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials, busi­ness lead­ers, part­ners and col­leagues from T&T and Guyana for an evening of strate­gic di­a­logue and col­lab­o­ra­tion.

DUBLIN, Ire­land—Fol­low­ing dom­i­nant vic­to­ries in their open­ing two match­es of the Evara Tri-Na­tion T20I se­ries, West In­dies Women’s cap­tain Hay­ley Matthews be­lieves her team is click­ing at the right time, with the Women’s World Cup less than two weeks away.

Love may write the vows, but log­ic en­forces the terms. In a world where emo­tion dri­ves our de­ci­sions and ro­mance is glo­ri­fied in books, songs, and sil­ver screens, it’s easy to for­get that mar­riage, at its core, is as much a busi­ness as it is a union of hearts.

The nar­row par­ty po­lit­i­cal dis­po­si­tions and ac­tions con­sis­tent­ly dis­played in the gov­er­nance of T&T are once again lead­ing to dead-end po­lit­i­cal bat­tles in­side and out­side of the Par­lia­ment. In­deed, many of those nar­row, po­lit­i­cal bat­tles reach up to a num­ber of the high­est of­fices in the Gov­ern­ment and the State.