FILE: Minister of Culture and Community Development Michelle Benjamin addressing the C.A.R.E. Grant and the National Days and Festivals Fund ceremony at SAPA.

RISHI RAGOONATH

Bernard Julien

Recipients of the 2025 Shell NXplorers Energy & Innovation Academic Scholarships – Fariba Bhaggan (2nd from right), is pursuing undergraduate studies in Computer Science; and Mya Abbott (2nd from left), is pursuing undergraduate studies in Agri-Food Safety and Quality Assurance.

FILE - Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Dr David Lee speaks during an impromptu meeting on his office, corner South Quay and George Street, Port-of-Spain in May 2025.

ABRAHAM DIAZ

Child psychologist Vandana Siew Sankar-Ali

Minister of Health, Dr Lackram Bodoe

Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation Eli Zakour, third from right, and Cuban Ambassador Gustavo Olivares, third from left, hold a wreath to be laid in remembrance of the 73 victims of the terrorist attack against Cubana de Avacion Flight CU-455 in Barbados in 1976. The wreath-laying ceremony was held at the atrium at the Piarco International Airport yesterday. Also in picture from left, are Mexican Ambassador Victor Hugo Morales Melendez, Head of the Diplomatic Core Venezuelan Ambassador Alvaro Sanchez Cordero, Parliamentary Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister and Ministry of Foreign and Caricom Affairs Nicholas Morris and Chilean Ambassador Hernan Nunez Montenegro.

CLAYTON CLARKE