The gleaming Diego Martin Vehicular Overpass in Trinidad and Tobago stood in stark contrast to the shadows cast by substandard Chinese construction projects creeping across Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries. These infamous “Tofu-Dreg” projects, as they’re dubbed in China, reached a new level of alarming on December 24, 2023, …
Read More »Global food crisis: Economists using Sri Lanka’s problems as guide
By Jevan Soyer. Sri Lanka, formally Ceylon also called the Teardrop of India, is a tropical island nation just a few miles southeast of India is most known for its international cricket team and scenic tourist destinations. Recently, it has been making news for all the wrong reasons. Economists around …
Read More »Apps that may be Secretly Spying on You
Photo filter apps have become in recent times popular, they allow you to add fun to what would be an otherwise boring photo. Many people are not satisfied with the offerings of Messenger, Snapchat and Instagram so opted to download an app that offers the features that are trending or …
Read More »Are you bright about kites? – quiz
By Nadia Ali. It’s kite season, the winds are blowing across the Queen’s Park Savannah making it an ideal place for the annual kite flying contest. A variety of kites take to the sunny Caribbean sky flown by adults and kids enjoying this outdoor activity. Did you know that kite flying …
Read More »HOMTOM HT10 the most secure budget phone
Security is a major issue in these modern times. It is such a big deal that smartphone manufacturers have made fingerprint scanners one of their major selling points during 2016. This feature however has some flaws. Mobile devices that depend on fingerprint scanners have been accessed by clone prints in …
Read More »To China and back home to Trinidad
By Candida Khan. I’ve had the most amazing and challenging experiences during the years 2003 to 2008. You may be wondering what I could be possibly speaking about. Well, my family and I moved from our home land to a foreign country, you could even say that it was on the …
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