Crick­et, once the pride of our re­gion and the heart­beat of our peo­ple, is be­ing qui­et­ly stran­gled—not by a lack of tal­ent or fan sup­port, but by lead­er­ship struc­tures so deeply flawed they no longer serve the game.

The World Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion (WHO) said Tues­day that while child­hood im­mu­ni­sa­tion in the Amer­i­c­as, in­clud­ing the Caribbean, has shown en­cour­ag­ing signs of re­cov­ery last year, sig­nif­i­cant gaps re­main.

Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) Pres­i­dent Dr Kishore Shal­low has is­sued a re­sponse fol­low­ing West In­dies’ re­cent Test match de­feat to Aus­tralia, de­scrib­ing the loss as a dif­fi­cult mo­ment for the re­gion’s crick­et and an­nounc­ing im­me­di­ate steps to ad­dress the team’s per­for­mance.

The Eu­ro­pean Union is seek­ing up­dates from Is­rael on the im­ple­men­ta­tion of a new deal to de­liv­er hu­man­i­tar­i­an aid to Gaza, ac­cord­ing to Ka­ja Kallas, the bloc’s for­eign pol­i­cy chief.

The life of vet­er­an broad­cast­er, cul­tur­al icon and for­mer politi­cian Dr Hans­ley “Hans” Hanoomans­ingh was cel­e­brat­ed yes­ter­day as he was laid to rest at the Curepe Pres­by­ter­ian Church.

The Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP), which has re­ceived more than $6 bil­lion in pub­lic fund­ing since 2010, is cur­rent­ly fac­ing sig­nif­i­cant scruti­ny due to “alarm­ing rev­e­la­tions” of wide­spread cor­rup­tion and po­lit­i­cal in­ter­fer­ence.

A 28-year-old man from Ari­ma, who as­sist­ed an old­er rel­a­tive in ab­duct­ing a Bras­so Seco fam­i­ly and mur­der­ing three mem­bers, in­clud­ing a ba­by, in 2014, has been sen­tenced to 12 years in prison.

The State has been or­dered to pay more than $175,000 in com­pen­sa­tion to a mem­ber of the T&T Coast Guard, who was ar­rest­ed and pros­e­cut­ed for breach­ing pub­lic health reg­u­la­tions for the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic af­ter hav­ing a lime at his apart­ment build­ing in May 2021.

An in­ves­ti­ga­tion is un­der­way af­ter in­trud­ers broke in­to the Mal­ick Sec­ondary School com­pound dur­ing the ear­ly hours of Sun­day.

The Di­vi­sion of Food Se­cu­ri­ty, Nat­ur­al Re­sources, the En­vi­ron­ment and Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment says it raised the is­sue of “eq­ui­ty in re­source al­lo­ca­tion” dur­ing a meet­ing with Agri­cul­ture Min­is­ter Ravi Rati­ram last Fri­day.

Agri­cul­ture Min­is­ter Ravi Rati­ram says he will meet with farm­ers from the Re­trench Es­tate fol­low­ing claims that a pri­vate con­trac­tor and a for­mer gov­ern­ment min­is­ter are in­volved in ef­forts to re­move them from lands used for cul­ti­va­tion.

At­tor­ney Ger­ald Ramdeen has been ap­point­ed chair­man of the state-owned Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC), just weeks af­ter Cab­i­net re­voked the ap­point­ment of Dr Randy Ra­mad­har Singh, who served as lead di­rec­tor for less than a month.