Will this season ever make sense? These 32 games could help start the process

In recent years, Week 9 of the college football season has been good at shutting down fun upstart stories -- or at least severely wounding them. Think of unranked Wisconsin pummeling No. 9 Iowa, Mississippi State upsetting No. 12 Kentucky and...

FTSE 100 Live: Another record close; LSEG tops the risers for a second day

FTSE 100 adds 67 points at 9,645 Kingfisher upgraded NatWest rises after lifting guidance Retail sales climb 0.9% in Q3 4.52pm: Another record for the FTSE The FTSE 100 notched its second record close in a row, adding 67 points at 9,645. “The...

Cruel blasts terrify animals

ONCE again, Divali night was turned into a war zone. All evening, and long after midnight, fireworks continued to explode across our neighbourhoods—earth-shaking booms that left families, pets and wildlife terrified. My dog spent the night...

Nutrien initiates planned shutdown despite talks with Govt

Canadian fertiliser giant Nutrien Ltd has completely shut down its four ammonia plants and one urea plant, despite talks by Government to resolve their port fee dispute. The move marks a significant development in T&T’s energy landscape, with...

Montserrat Formalises Membership in Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism

Montserrat has officially joined the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM), deepening its commitment to regional collaboration in the sustainable management of marine and aquatic resources. The milestone was marked during the Sixteenth...

Peter Doig House of Music Serpentine South – Sue Hubbard

Peter Doig is one of those painters loved by the public and the cognoscenti alike. His vivid palette and the magic realism of paintings like White Canoe 1991 have brought him to a wide and varied audience, and his work fetches some of the highest...

Ranking the most interesting College Football Playoff and conference races

The signs are everywhere. It's finally hoodie weather in the Midwest. We're getting ready to argue all over again about daylight saving time and whether candy corn is good. (It is! I don't like that it is, but it is.) That's right: It's almost...

Rain fails to dampen Blue Food Festival

Tobago Kinnesha George An Hour Ago A patron does the electric slide under her umbrella at Bloody Bay Recreation Ground. - Photos by Alva Viarruel Heavy rains did very little to damper the spirits of the hundreds of patrons who turned out to the...

Philip Mshelbila emerge as secretary general of Gas Exporting Countries Forum

Philip Mshelbila has emerged as the Secretary-General of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) after an election at the just concluded 27th GECF Ministerial Meeting held in Doha, Qatar. Alongside him, Ekperikpe Ekpo, Nigeria’s minister of...

FTSE 100 Live: Market in a holding pattern; LSEG tops the risers...

FTSE 100 falls 5 points to 9,573.64 Kingfisher upgraded NatWest rises after lifting guidance Retail sales climb 0.9% in Q3 12.25pm: LSEG back in fashion London Stock Exchange spent a second day at the top of the FTSE 100 leaderboard with brokers...

Ministers order urgent review of LPG regulations after deadly explosions

Sascha Wilson Senior Reporter [email protected] Energy and Energy Industries Ministers Dr Roodal Moonilal and Ernesto Kesar have ordered an urgent review of regulations governing Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) following a series of deadly...

CWI Announces Restructured CG Unite...

HIGHLIGHTS 2025 edition reduced from 8 teams and 31 matches to 6 teams and 16 matches with the exclusion of WI Academy and CCC. To be played entirely in Trinidad across three venues. Round-robin format with top two sides advancing to the final....

Transforming agriculture

WITH Trinidad and Tobago’s food import bill now reaching an estimated $7.2 billion, the new administration faces one of its most pressing economic challenges: reducing the country’s reliance on imported food amid a tightening foreign exchange...

One from 15 leaves nought

145 When Dr Eric Williams, the first prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, pronounced in 1962 that “one from ten leaves nought” to mark his nation’s withdrawal from the West Indies Federation, he gave voice to an era-defining fracture — an...

FTSE 100 Live: Market in a holding pattern; Kingfisher upgraded

FTSE 100 falls 3 points to 9,576 Kingfisher upgraded NatWest rises after lifting guidance Retail sales climb 0.9% in Q3 11.30am: You can do it, if you B&Q it RBC Capital has dusted off its toolkit for Kingfisher, upgrading the B&Q and Screwfix...

Breaking walls and building bridges for the Caribbean’s future

In this mo­ment of glob­al un­cer­tain­ty and re­gion­al un­ease, the Caribbean again stands at a cross­roads. The world’s at­ten­tion has turned to­ward our basin, a space once de­fined by shared strug­gle and hope, now caught in the un­der­tow...

NMDPRA boss hails Mshelbila’s election as new GECF scribe

Authority Chief Executive of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), Engr. Farouk Ahmed, has congratulated Dr Philip Mshelbila on his election as the Secretary-General of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum...

Mountain showers linger on Friday ahead of a gorgeous weekend

Today’s Forecast: Our well advertised late week storm will continue to spin off to our west this morning before dropping south into New Mexico this afternoon. With the center of the storm over the mountains, that's where we'll see most of the...

Reshaped and recharged! CWI unveils new vision for 2025 Super50 Cup

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua — Cricket West Indies (CWI) has confirmed a major structural overhaul of the CG United Super50 Cup for 2025, signaling a new chapter for the region’s premier 50-over competition. - Advertisement - The tournament, scheduled for...

Building an innovation-driven future for T&T

By Emer­son John-Charles The 2025 No­bel Prize in Eco­nom­ic Sci­ences was award­ed last week to three eco­nom­ic his­to­ri­ans who proved that in­no­va­tion, not nat­ur­al re­sources, is the true dri­ver of growth and pros­per­i­ty. Their work...