Church of­fer­ings are on the de­cline, dri­ven by a mul­ti­tude of fac­tors, in­clud­ing shrink­ing con­gre­ga­tion sizes, so­cio-eco­nom­ic chal­lenges, and the long-term ef­fects of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

It has not been the best year for the lo­cal restau­rant sec­tor, but two years af­ter form­ing part of the din­ing and nightlife re­vival at Val­park Shop­ping Plaza, a leap of faith is be­ing tak­en by two restau­rants that have opt­ed not to shrink, but to ex­pand.

Britain ac­cused Iran on Thurs­day of hold­ing the world’s econ­o­my hostage as diplo­mats from more than 40 coun­tries held talks on ways to press Tehran to re­open the Strait of Hor­muz, a vi­tal oil route that has been choked off by the U.S.-Is­raeli war against Iran.

Dig­i­cel (T&T) Ltd is ex­pand­ing its 100 per cent fi­bre net­work across South Trinidad, ex­tend­ing cov­er­age to com­mu­ni­ties in­clud­ing Siparia, Oropouche and Point Fortin.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said Thurs­day that Pam Bon­di is out as his at­tor­ney gen­er­al, end­ing the con­tentious tenure of a loy­al­ist who up­end­ed the Jus­tice De­part­ment’s cul­ture of in­de­pen­dence from the White House, over­saw large-scale fir­ings of ca­reer em­ploy­ees and moved ag­gres­sive­ly to in­ves­ti­gate the Re­pub­li­can pres­i­dent’s per­ceived en­e­mies.

The En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) held a stake­hold­er ses­sion with con­sul­tants who pro­vide ser­vices to up­stream oil and gas com­pa­nies as part of work on the Cer­tifi­cate of En­vi­ron­men­tal Clear­ance (CEC) per­mit­ting process.

Of­fi­cers of the South­ern Di­vi­sion Emer­gency Re­sponse Pa­trol (ERP) ar­rest­ed two sus­pects and seized two firearms fol­low­ing a re­port of rob­bery with vi­o­lence in the Princes Town dis­trict.

Trinidad and To­ba­go has the sup­port of more than 100 na­tions, in­clud­ing CARI­COM mem­ber states, in its bid for a non-per­ma­nent seat on the Unit­ed Na­tions Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil for the 2027–2028 term, Min­is­ter of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs Sean Sobers said in the Sen­ate on Wednes­day.

This phrase can be ap­plied to the Ce­dros Bay brand as the com­pa­ny’s ex­pan­sion plans have con­sis­tent­ly been stalled by glob­al events.

When man­ag­ing di­rec­tor Mar­i­anne Ho­sein be­gan op­er­at­ing Three Cir­cles En­er­gy tours, her pur­pose was two-fold: keep­ing her clients sat­is­fied as well as en­sur­ing that the peo­ple from the com­mu­ni­ties she and her group toured ben­e­fit­ted from hav­ing vis­i­tors.

In the ear­ly 1990’s, when I start­ed my ca­reer as a busi­ness jour­nal­ist, pri­vati­sa­tion meant the sale of state as­sets and was usu­al­ly as­so­ci­at­ed with the struc­tur­al ad­just­ment pro­grammes ad­vanced by the In­ter­na­tion­al Mon­e­tary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.

One of the most im­por­tant con­se­quences of the US and Is­rael war against Iran is the sharp es­ca­la­tion in the in­ter­na­tion­al prices of crude oil as a re­sult the dan­gers as­so­ci­at­ed with at­tempt­ing to ship Mid­dle East­ern crude through the Straits of Hor­muz.