They're all con­tin­u­ing at it with ever-in­creas­ing po­lit­i­cal tem­po - every ap­pear­ance seek­ing spot­light, every state­ment lob­by­ing sup­port. Politi­cians are head­ing through the clos­ing cur­rents of the Gen­er­al Elec­tion cam­paign in­to the start of spe­cial vot­ing, which be­gins on Mon­day. Here's some of what oc­curred on the plat­form in case you missed it:

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.

LA­HORE – Caribbean crick­et fans are breath­ing a bit eas­i­er on Thurs­day as their beloved West In­dies Women kept their faint 2025 ICC Women’s Crick­et World Cup qual­i­fi­ca­tion hopes alive fol­low­ing a hard-fought three-wick­et vic­to­ry over Bangladesh in La­hore, Pak­istan.

More than 700 peo­ple par­tic­i­pat­ed in the Unit­ed Na­tions’ Pho­toVoice Ex­hi­bi­tion host­ed on March 27 and 28 at East Gates Mall and April 3 and 4 at The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, St Au­gus­tine Cam­pus.

Frailty, ill health and men­tal de­cline are crit­i­cisms of­ten lobbed by am­bi­tious younger politi­cians aim­ing to oust age­ing lead­ers. Whether valid con­cerns or veiled ageism, these nar­ra­tives are used as tools to dis­cred­it. In the lead-up to the US pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, for­mer pres­i­dent Joe Biden was fre­quent­ly por­trayed as con­fused and in­ca­pable—clips of him stum­bling or strug­gling for words were re­peat­ed­ly aired by cer­tain me­dia out­lets to re­in­force this per­cep­tion.