Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lysts are say­ing the win­ner of to­mor­row’s To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tions de­pends on the vot­er turnout.

Op­po­si­tion MP and for­mer min­is­ter of en­er­gy, Stu­art Young, has hit back at claims made by Min­is­ter of En­er­gy, Dr Roodal Mooni­lal, that the cur­rent im­passe be­tween the Na­tion­al Gas Com­pa­ny (NGC) and Cana­di­an com­pa­ny, Nu­trien, was re­lat­ed to de­ci­sions made by the pre­vi­ous ad­min­is­tra­tion.

In foot­ball, we spend a lot of time talk­ing about tac­tics, fit­ness, strength, and skill. We analyse for­ma­tions, GPS da­ta, re­cov­ery ses­sions, and match sta­tis­tics. But there is one sys­tem that qui­et­ly in­flu­ences every sprint, every de­ci­sion, every touch on the ball. It's the ner­vous sys­tem. You nev­er see it on a team sheet, but it shows up clear­ly on match day.

In 2025, Unit­ed States Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump dom­i­nat­ed the world po­lit­i­cal agen­da, dis­man­tling the sys­tem for a peace­ful world of co­ex­is­tence among na­tions built up in the ear­ly 20th cen­tu­ry. He de­stroyed the trad­ing sys­tem that the US had built through con­struc­tive en­gage­ment with the rest of the world. Trade treaties were ab­ro­gat­ed, and tar­iffs were uni­lat­er­al­ly levied on ma­jor trad­ing part­ners and al­lies. Yemeni Houthis, Iran, and rebels in Nige­ria were bombed. The year 2026 is prov­ing to be the same. It start­ed with the ex­tra­or­di­nary ex­trac­tion of Venezuela’s Pres­i­dent Maduro af­ter months of mil­i­tary ac­tiv­i­ty in the Caribbean.