And so it has come to pass that today is the very tomorrow we had so feared yesterday.

Port-of-Spain Mayor Raymond Tim Kee says Laventille has become “hell on earth” following last Thursday’s shooting deaths of two school boys on Picton Road.

It has been a tumultuous year for sport. There is just so much that is wrong with the “industry” in this country that a 500-page novel would be required to disseminate some of the pertinent information.

“YOUR day will come!” This from a grim-faced Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday to those citizens who harbour criminals, who know of crimes but choose to stay quiet and who do not assist law enforcement in the battle against crime and lawlessness, as he responded to the slaughter on Thursday of Success Laventille Secondary schoolboys Denilson Smith, 17, and Mark Richards, 15.

Elders living in the hills of Laventille have called on Prime Minister Keith Rowley to call out the troops in a bid to prevent any more innocent young men from being senselessly killed.

Regional president of bpTT Norman Christie said the energy giant spent close to US$1.5 billion in T&T last year and is prepared to spent even more this year “If the above surface conditions are right.” He said this demonstrates the company’s confidence in the local energy sector even in an unfavourable economic climate.