As mur­dered busi­ness­man Don­ald “Son­ny” Parks was laid to rest on Wednes­day at the Scar­bor­ough Methodist Church’s ceme­tery, a call was made to res­cue To­ba­go’s so­ci­ety.

Stoute Next Gen­er­a­tion Band­leader Can­dice Chang-Sandy has tak­en is­sue with the re­duc­tion of grants and prizes of­fered to To­ba­go band­lead­ers in this year’s Car­ni­val com­pe­ti­tions.

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Chief Sec­re­tary Kelvin Charles’ has ad­vised To­bag­o­ni­ans to “nev­er set­tle for medi­oc­rity.”

Head of the new­ly-formed To­ba­go Busi­ness Cham­ber Mar­tin George has con­demned the con­tin­ued chal­lenges be­ing ex­pe­ri­enced on the in­ter-is­land seabridge.

Sev­en To­ba­go ath­letes shined bright­ly at last week­end’s Na­tion­al As­so­ci­a­tion of Ath­let­ics Ad­min­is­tra­tions (NAAA) Carif­ta tri­als at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Port-of-Spain.

Ker­win John was vot­ed in as the sec­ond Vice Pres­i­dent of the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB) at elec­tions held re­cent­ly at the TTCB of­fice, Na­tion­al Crick­et Cen­tre in Cou­va.

Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary’s hopes for glo­ry in this year’s Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) Shell/First Cit­i­zens In­ter­col girls’ fi­nal were killed off by Pleas­antville Sec­ondary’s Alex­cia Ali at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Cou­va on Tues­day.

A for­mer stu­dent now pur­su­ing a de­gree in Man­age­ment Stud­ies has been se­lect­ed as the Scar­bor­ough Sec­ondary School Alum­ni’s 2018 schol­ar­ship re­cip­i­ent.

Tears flowed freely, some per­sons’ arms were spread wide, palms fac­ing up­wards, while oth­ers chose to jump and dance aban­don­ing all in­hi­bi­tions and bar­ing all emo­tions at the In His Pres­ence (IHP) 9 gospel con­cert last week­end.

Eighty-five years ago, Sul­li­van Dil­lon, now de­ceased, had a vi­sion. A hum­ble man with mea­gre means, he left Buc­coo, To­ba­go, to work in Cu­ba in the cat­tle ranch­es and then Pana­ma on the Pana­ma Canal.

For Mar­tin Su­perville, the brain­child be­hind Ex­po ART To­ba­go 2018, the four-day show­cas­ing of artists and ar­ti­sans at the Shaw Park Cul­tur­al Com­plex (No­vem­ber 29-De­cem­ber 2) was “an over­whelm­ing suc­cess.”

THA Pre­sid­ing Of­fi­cer Denise Tsoiafatt An­gus tries an elab­o­rate shot with a co­conut branch bat dur­ing a game of crick­et with Bish­ops High School stu­dents dur­ing the school’s ‘A Taste of our Her­itage’ on Tues­day. The event was host­ed by the school’s De­part­ment of So­cial Sci­ences as part of the on­go­ing To­ba­go Day fes­tiv­i­ties and al­so in­clud­ed oth­er game To­bag­o­ni­ans play, song and dance, spo­ken word and speech-band.

The mys­te­ri­ous cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing three miss­ing fish­er­men at sea deep­ens, as one of three has been found alive in Grena­da.

Pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes joined the list of peo­ple call­ing for equal­i­ty for per­sons with Down Syn­drome.

The Di­vi­sion of Fi­nance and the Econ­o­my ex­posed stu­dents from sev­er­al sec­ondary schools across To­ba­go to lessons in fi­nan­cial lit­er­a­cy as part of Glob­al Mon­ey Week (GMW) cel­e­bra­tions at the Shaw Park Cul­tur­al Com­plex on Tues­day.

Af­ter be­ing bom­bard­ed for weeks by par­ents, teach­ers, read­ers of this col­umn, fam­i­ly mem­bers, friends and my Crim­i­nol­o­gy and Crim­i­nal Jus­tice stu­dents, to au­thor a piece on the im­por­tance of parental dis­ci­pline as a pre­cur­sor to chil­dren’s dis­ci­pline, I de­cid­ed to oblige.