The decision by Adidas to explore dropping its sponsorship of the IAAF comes as the sports brand plans wider divestments within its sporting portfolio and aims to win back lost ground to rival Nike

Religious leaders, including priests and lay ministers in Laventille and environs, are very fearful and exercise extreme caution about what they say to their congregations because gunmen often sit among the mourners armed with weapons, and priests feel threatened by that.

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.