Auntie Cheryl tellin’ yuh — straight from Chaguanas. Pull up ah chair, doux-doux. Auntie have things to discuss.
🎉 KAMLA SPEAK ON SUNDAY AND I COULD HAVE CRY!
Doux-doux. Listen.
I went up by Couva yesterday. I went with my niece. She drove. The traffic was murder coming through Chaguanas but we MADE IT, doux-doux, we made it.
And let me tell yuh, when Madam Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar take that stage and start TALKING, the whole carpark FILL UP with energy. Thousands more jobs! More police posts! NEW HOMES in the pipeline! Doux-doux, my hand was UP IN THE AIR.
And then she say — “Those who want war will get total political war.”
Auntie Cheryl WHEELED, doux-doux. WHEELED. You cyah talk to my Prime Minister like she some kinda pushover. She is a LIONESS. She is a WARRIOR. She is OUR MUMMY OF THE NATION.
Jearlean John was ON the stage with her. They was BUSSING the whole night. The UNC family is STRONG. One year in government and ALREADY the country tasting prosperity. Imagine what FOUR more years going do.
The PNM rell quiet, doux-doux. Reeeeell quiet. As they SHOULD be.
🇻🇪 DELCY COMING THROUGH THE REGION!
Hear nah, doux-doux — Acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez all over the Caribbean! Three weeks ago Grenada. Sunday Barbados, Mia Mottley host her PROPER. Christopher Sinckler do the foreign affairs hosting.
You see what diplomacy looks like when GROWN PEOPLE running it? Regional engagement. High-level discussions. State protocol.
Some people — and I will NOT call names — taking meetings on the side and running to put up the picture on Facebook. Doux-doux. DOUX-DOUX. When you GO and meet with the Acting President of Venezuela without coordinating with your country’s CURRENT government, that is not diplomacy. That is bachannal.
Madam PM and Energy Minister Dr Roodal Moonilal running PROPER negotiations. They negotiating GAS. They negotiating ENERGY SECURITY. They negotiating in the NATIONAL INTEREST, doux-doux, not for personal photo ops.
The big ones doing the work. The little ones doing the gossip.
🏏 RED FORCE BUSSING IN TAROUBA!
Doux-doux, Joshua Da Silva on 72 not out. JAYDEN SEALES TAKE SIX WICKETS, all six Leeward Islands Hurricanes wickets. SIX FOR ONE BOWLER!
Auntie Cheryl was at the radio commentary HOOTING. “YES JAYDEN, YESSSS!”
You see what happens when the country invest in cricket facilities? You see what happens when Brian Lara Cricket Academy doing the WORK to develop talent? WORLD-CLASS Trini cricketers stepping up. This is what we mean when we say sport infrastructure WORKING.
CWI Four-Day Championship — Round 6 — and we BUSSING. The boys representing Trinidad and Tobago to the FULLEST. Big up Joshua. Big up Jayden. Big up the entire Red Force outfit. TRINIDAD CRICKET BACK.
🚲 NICHOLAS PAUL FLY OUT TO MALAYSIA!
Cycling, doux-doux. Nicholas Paul, Njisane Phillip, Makaira Wallace — heading to Nilai, Malaysia for the third and final round of the 2026 UCI Track World Cup.
UCI WORLD CUP, doux-doux. The TOP cycling competition in the world. And we sending THREE Trinis to compete in the sprint and the keirin events.
When you ever hear about Trinidad cyclists going to Malaysia? Now, doux-doux, that is when. The country REACHING the world stage.
Big up Nicholas. Big up Njisane. Makaira flying the red, white and black — first time many of these international velodromes seeing a Trini woman on the track at this level. MOMENT OF PRIDE.
🏠 TTMB LAUNCH NEW MORTGAGE PRODUCTS!
Trinidad and Tobago Mortgage Bank — TTMB — drop THREE NEW PRODUCTS at the Hilton last week, doux-doux. Studied modern demands. Assessed affordable housing. Tailored solutions for actual Trini families.
Wendy Scoon-Huggins, Kamilah Peterson, Kristin Ramesar — WOMEN running this institution, doux-doux. Trini women. PROFESSIONAL women.
HOMEOWNERSHIP for the working person. That is policy in action. That is what the UNC government, with its housing pipeline announcements, is COMPLEMENTING through state institutions like TTMB.
The dream of owning a home in T&T? Alive and well. Get yuh paperwork together. Get yuh deposit together. TTMB ready for yuh.
⚖️ AG DOING DE WORK
Auntie Cheryl read about the AG releasing names of 27 people included on the terrorist blacklist. Khalil Ahmed Haqqani updated entry, place of birth Paktia Province, Afghanistan, addresses across Afghanistan and Pakistan.
You see how seriously this country take ANTI-TERRORISM, doux-doux? Justice Margaret Mohammed and Justice Marcia Ayers-Caesar doing the rulings. The FIU updating the consolidated register. The banks monitoring transactions. The Gazette publishing notice. Two daily newspapers also publishing notice.
THIS is institutional functioning, doux-doux. THIS is rule of law. THIS is T&T meeting our international obligations under the Anti-Terrorism Act.
When you hear people calling Trinidad a “small country,” remind them: we have a Financial Intelligence Unit, a High Court, an Attorney General’s office, a statutory six-month review process, and we just designated three major Middle Eastern paramilitary organisations as terrorist entities.
Small country, BIG framework.
📺 ISHOWSPEED COME THROUGH! THE YOUTH ARE EXCITED!
IShowSpeed at the Queen’s Park Oval Saturday. Crowds of young people. Photos, videos, content for DAYS.
Doux-doux, do you understand what this means for TOURISM? For YOUTH ENGAGEMENT? For DIGITAL CULTURE in the Caribbean?
One of the biggest streamers in the WORLD chose Trinidad and Tobago as stop number one on his Caribbean tour. STOP NUMBER ONE. Not Jamaica. Not Barbados. TRINIDAD.
The country is on the GLOBAL CULTURAL MAP. The youth excited. The Oval host a different kind of event. The brand of T&T is BUSSING.
The PNM never could have imagined this kind of cultural attention. The UNC, in ONE YEAR, presiding over the country becoming a destination for global content creators. Coincidence? Auntie thinks not.
🌳 SAN JUAN BUSINESS AREA EXPANDING!
MP Saddam Hosein for Barataria/San Juan opened the Raw Fitness Health Club in Aranguez. Chest press machine inaugurated. New gym, new business, new jobs.
He himself say — the rapid rise in business development in the San Juan area is making him pleased. As it should, doux-doux. As. It. SHOULD.
When Members of Parliament personally show up to support local business — opening gym facilities — that is constituency representation at its FINEST. Doux-doux, in some places the MP can’t even tell yuh where his constituency BEGINS. Saddam know every street, every business, every gym. Engaged. Visible. Working.
💰 RETRENCHMENT BILL: FINALLY PROTECTING WORKERS!
Retrenchment and Severance Benefits (Amendment) Bill, 2026 — expanded protections for workers, stricter rules for employers, significantly raised cost for retrenchment.
DOUX-DOUX. YES. When the working person lose dey job, the working person should be protected. Bosses can’t just fire willy-nilly anymore. The UNC is for the workers.
Some business people and some Chamber people grumbling. Let dem grumble. When yuh make profit off the back of a Trini worker, yuh have a DUTY to that worker. The Bill putting that DUTY into law.
Pro-worker. Pro-family. Pro-Trinidad. As is the way.
🇹🇹 BOTTOM LINE, DOUX-DOUX
Madam PM speaking strong. Delcy Rodriguez engaging the region with proper protocol. Red Force bussing. Jayden Seales taking six wickets. Trini cyclists in Malaysia. TTMB rolling out housing products. AG handling anti-terrorism. IShowSpeed picking Trinidad first. San Juan business expanding. Workers’ rights getting LEGAL PROTECTION.
One year of UNC government. ONE YEAR. And look at the country!
I telling yuh, doux-doux. People who complaining are the same people who never come out and vote. People who drying eye are the same people who left when the going was bad. Auntie Cheryl was here. Auntie Cheryl is here. Auntie Cheryl will BE here.
Watching the country rise. Bussing brigade. Hand up.
Madam PM and the UNC have my full support. Trinidad and Tobago is in good hands. The drains will get clean. The bush will get cut. The drains and the bush are not partisan. The country is MOVING.
Until next time, doux-doux. Auntie Cheryl out.
— Auntie Cheryl, Chaguanas
Auntie Cheryl is the diaspora-adjacent loyalist of The Tradewinds Brief. Same news, different eyes.