Good Fri­day is the most sig­nif­i­cant day of the year on the Chris­t­ian cal­en­dar. As a child grow­ing up at the cor­ner of Joyeau and Bushe Streets in Curepe, I still re­mem­ber my cousins car­ry­ing me to the near­by Our La­dy of Fa­ti­ma RC Church for the Sta­tions of the Cross ser­vice.

Cari­com, 53 years old, is the longest-stand­ing eco­nom­ic union in the de­vel­op­ing world. While US Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump doesn’t mind carv­ing up the hemi­sphere in­to friends, in­dif­fer­ents and foes, the rest of the world is com­fort­able deal­ing with Cari­com as a re­gion­al block. In this sense, de­spite what­ev­er flaws, Cari­com has the con­sid­er­a­tion and re­spect of the world.

The peren­ni­al is­sue of the fi­nan­cial vi­a­bil­i­ty of Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) is again fig­ur­ing in na­tion­al dis­course, os­ten­si­bly cen­tred around mak­ing the air­line prof­itable again.

The dis­clo­sure by North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA) chair­man Dr Tim Gopeesingh that the au­thor­i­ty has been haem­or­rhag­ing some $3 mil­lion a month on pool nurs­ing costs is as re­veal­ing as it is alarm­ing.

One week ago, to the day, there was a vig­or­ous, spon­ta­neous round-robin in­volv­ing a cadre of Caribbean jour­nal­ists who mon­i­tor the Cari­com process as close­ly as we can.

Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) is back in a tough spot. Near­ly two decades af­ter BWIA was re­placed, CAL con­tin­ues to face the same prob­lems. It strug­gles with chron­ic loss­es, po­lit­i­cal de­mands and a dif­fi­cult re­gion­al mar­ket.

So­cial me­dia is ad­dic­tive. Yes, it’s ad­dic­tive man, un­cle, pops, aun­tie, Mamoo, it’s ad­dic­tive. It’s ad­dic­tive if you de­fine ad­dic­tion as get­ting such a dopamine rush that you feel com­pelled to reach for the cell­phone as soon as you open your eyes in the morn­ing or use your cell­phone for hours at a time. It’s ad­dic­tive for man, woman and child and the ad­dic­tion of the par­ents is a ma­jor part of the prob­lem. How can you ac­knowl­edge that there is some­thing wrong with what your child is do­ing if you are do­ing the ex­act same thing?

Hin­dus be­lieve that ac­tions and life’s oc­cur­rences are but part of cy­cles aimed at spir­i­tu­al em­pow­er­ment and even­tu­al merg­ing with the Supreme God­head. Every year, the Sanatan Dhar­ma Ma­ha Sab­ha pub­lish­es Hin­du cal­en­dars de­tail­ing the dates of all re­li­gious events.

One of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s most vo­cal cheer­lead­ers on so­cial me­dia agreed with my Face­book-post­ed com­ment that for­mer PM Dr Kei­th Row­ley had crossed a line in­to misog­y­ny in call­ing the PM “a jamette.”

Trinidad and To­ba­go may be ge­o­graph­i­cal­ly dis­tant from the cur­rent mil­i­tary hot spots of Ukraine and the Mid­dle East, but glob­al­i­sa­tion has en­sured that we ex­pe­ri­ence the knock-on ef­fects of war.

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ (UNC) first year in Gov­ern­ment and the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) first in Op­po­si­tion looms with the an­niver­sary of the April 28, 2025, Gen­er­al Elec­tion, a month off from to­day—and yes­ter­day’s clash­es be­tween both sides in Par­lia­ment showed where each stands.

The ear­ly num­bers emerg­ing from the lat­est State of Emer­gency (SoE) of­fer some­thing T&T has not seen in some time: mea­sur­able, across-the-board de­clines in re­port­ed crime. Ac­cord­ing to TTPS Pub­lic In­for­ma­tion Of­fi­cer ASP Owie Rus­sell, near­ly every ma­jor cat­e­go­ry has de­creased when com­pared to the same 21-day pe­ri­od dur­ing the pre­vi­ous SoE.