Kes The Band's NPR Tiny Desk concert was not just a good gig. It was the kind of soft power we usually only talk about when we are losing it. Pair it with the laptops and prosthetics from India last week, and you start to see what punching above our weight actually looks like.
A 23-month-old is dead in Belmont, the Defence Minister calls it a reprisal, and the same ZOSO Bill that collapsed in the Senate weeks ago is being brought back. Before we vote it through this time, someone has to explain what changed about the answer – or whether we are just recycling it.
The UNC in Power, One Year Review
A seven-part audit of the UNC government's first year. Genuine wins on jobs, pensions and paediatric care sit beside an Auditor General's qualified opinion, a collapsed security bill, a nurses' walkout, and Trinidadian fishermen killed in US strikes our government endorsed.
While the nursing dispute dominates the news, three premature triplets – the smallest ever delivered in T&T – went home from a Port of Spain NICU last week. The Health Minister also unveiled plans for a national prosthetics centre. Two reminders of what our health workers can do.
T&T's nurses are now enforcing a 1:6 patient ratio – a policy the government approved but never implemented. The Health Minister says there is no health crisis. With nurses still on 2013 salaries and a brain drain in motion, the bill for years of austerity is coming due.
On April 19, Acting Corporal Anuska Eversley was murdered inside her own police station. The armoury was emptied. Three men, including a serving officer, are now charged. This isn't a security failure - it is an institutional one, and the warning signs were there for months.
The April 23 announcement was bigger than the headlines suggested - bus tickets, pension grants, a national eKYC platform and a free WhatsApp AI assistant all at once. The direction is right. The execution has to reach the people who need it most.
A federal lawsuit is challenging US military airstrikes that killed two Trinidadian men last year. As the US reports another lethal strike this week and the government embraces a new autonomous warfare command, we must examine the diplomatic fallout.
The horrifying discovery of 56 bodies at a cemetery in Trinidad has exposed severe failures in how the country's morgues operate. As police investigate this unlawful disposal, those of us watching from abroad must ask how the government allowed this administrative decay to happen.