April 12, 2026 • 3 min readTrini Brief
Good Sunday morning! Auntie Cheryl just came back from early mass and she has a LOT on her heart.
McDONALD BAILEY. LORD HAVE MERCY.
More than twenty years in prison for something he did not do. Acquitted. Given back his freedom. And then shot dead on a Saturday morning before he even had time to really live as a free man. Auntie Cheryl sat down when she read that. She is still sitting. There are no good words for this. None. You pray for his family. You pray for this country. And you wonder, very quietly, what the prison system owes a man like that, and what it can never actually pay.
Read More → April 12, 2026 • 3 min readTrini Brief
Good morning. Pour a strong coffee. The week left a lot to untangle.
THE CARICOM WAR IS NOW AN INTERNATIONAL STORY
What began as a regional dispute over Venezuela policy and the reappointment of CARICOM’s Secretary-General has now crossed into the international press. The Associated Press is covering it. The core: PM Persad-Bissessar has spent months demanding that Secretary-General Carla Barnett not receive another term, citing Trinidad’s position that CARICOM sided with what she calls a “Maduro narco-government” through the zone-of-peace framework, and that Trinidad pays roughly 22 per cent of the bloc’s budget and has nothing to show for alignment it never agreed with. Regional leaders have pushed back. The emergency Friday meeting produced no resolution. Persad-Bissessar is not softening. This is either a principled stand or a regional fracture — possibly both, simultaneously.
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