The Board of Man­age­ment of Holy Name Con­vent Port of Spain has an­nounced an in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to cur­rent and past al­le­ga­tions in­volv­ing new­ly ap­point­ed prin­ci­pal Sr Re­nee Hall, fol­low­ing pub­lic con­cern raised by stu­dents, par­ents, alum­ni and mem­bers of the wider school com­mu­ni­ty.

The lo­cal dis­trib­u­tors and mar­ket­ing team for Rude Boy has clar­i­fied that it had noth­ing to do with a con­tro­ver­sial bill­board which was re­cent­ly on dis­play in Kingston, Ja­maica.

Saleem Hen­ry scored a pair of goals as Queen’s Park Crick­et Club blanked Pa­lo Seco Union Hall Unit­ed 2-0 to close the gap on idle T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League Tier II Di­vi­sion One lead­ers T&T Po­lice FC at the Lar­ry Gomes Sta­di­um, Mal­abar, on Sat­ur­day.

Glob­al­ly, an es­ti­mat­ed one mil­lion plas­tic bot­tles are pur­chased every minute. In Trinidad and To­ba­go, many of them even­tu­al­ly end up in drains, rivers and land­fills—fu­elling the flood­ing night­mare res­i­dents know all too well dur­ing the rainy sea­son.

The pro­pos­al to re­name Nel­son Is­land has ig­nit­ed a na­tion­al de­bate about how our coun­try’s com­plex his­to­ry should be re­mem­bered in a mod­ern so­ci­ety grap­pling with the lega­cies of colo­nial­ism, mi­gra­tion and iden­ti­ty. This de­bate ex­tends well be­yond a sim­ple change of a sign­post or map ref­er­ence.