A Ca­roni busi­ness­man who is al­so a li­censed gun own­er was able to scare off ban­dits who tried to break in­to his home ear­ly on Wednes­day morn­ing.

The long-run­ning bor­der dis­pute be­tween Guyana and Venezuela, which is cur­rent­ly be­fore the In­ter­na­tion­al Court of Jus­tice (ICJ), flared anew on March 1st. Venezue­lan mil­i­tary as­sets mount­ed an in­cur­sion in­to oil-rich Guyana’s ter­ri­to­r­i­al wa­ters — ma­noeu­vring with the Exxon­Mo­bil-op­er­at­ed off­shore oil field in their line of sight — prompt­ing Guyana’s Pres­i­dent Mo­hamed Ir­faan Ali to de­nounce this lat­est Venezue­lan provo­ca­tion.

T&T's pro­fes­sion­al golfer Ben Mar­tin will lead the lo­cal charge in the 117th edi­tion of the T&T Golf Open which gets un­der­way on Fri­day (March 14).

D J Pri­vate Ryan (Ryan Alexan­der) has ce­ment­ed his place as one of the most in­flu­en­tial DJs in the so­ca in­dus­try. His jour­ney start­ed in child­hood when he would sneak in­to his fa­ther’s mu­sic col­lec­tion, spin­ning records on a turntable and blend­ing tracks from the ra­dio. It was his way of teach­ing him­self the art of DJ-ing long be­fore he even knew what it would be­come.

Yes­ter­day's an­nounce­ment by the Unit­ed King­dom gov­ern­ment that it was im­pos­ing a visa re­quire­ment on all T&T na­tion­als seek­ing to en­ter the UK would have come as a sur­prise to the hun­dreds of Trin­bag­o­ni­ans who vis­it friends and fam­i­ly or do busi­ness in that coun­try an­nu­al­ly.