With just over a week be­fore vot­ers head to the polls, Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young an­nounced that the PNM's in­ter­nal polls show a clear lead in sev­er­al key con­stituen­cies—in­clud­ing Ch­agua­nas East, To­co/Man­zanil­la, Ma­yaro, San Fer­nan­do West, and pos­si­bly Moru­ga/Table­land.

En­er­gy ex­pert Gre­go­ry McGuire has de­scribed plans re­gard­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s en­er­gy sec­tor as out­lined in the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) man­i­festo, as for­ward-look­ing in terms of its fo­cus but felt that key ar­eas for na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment were not ad­dressed.

Shawn Pouchet, Pres­i­dent of the Aquat­ic Sports As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (ASATT) says he is keen for the ac­tion to start in the 38th edi­tion of the Carif­ta Aquat­ics Cham­pi­onships which splash­es off at the beau­ti­ful Na­tion­al Aquat­ic Cen­tre in Bal­main, Cou­va from 9 am Sat­ur­day.

Renowned Trinida­di­an artist Che Lovelace has been award­ed the Cheva­lier de L’Or­dre des Arts et des Let­tres (Knight of the Or­der of Arts and Let­ters) by the French gov­ern­ment. This pres­ti­gious ho­n­our, pre­sent­ed by the Em­bassy of France in Trinidad and To­ba­go on Tues­day, recog­nis­es Lovelace’s ex­cep­tion­al con­tri­bu­tions to the arts and his piv­otal role in bring­ing Caribbean vi­su­al ex­pres­sion to the glob­al fore­front.

“Some­body take ‘One Love’ off the shelf/Then the ‘One Love’ boys start to sell out dey self/Some­body go­ing to end all this talk about race/But they can’t tell me that with a straight, straight face.”