The Coun­cil for Re­spon­si­ble Po­lit­i­cal Be­hav­iour has start­ed to mon­i­tor ac­tiv­i­ties re­lat­ed to all po­lit­i­cal par­ties, can­di­dates and sup­port­ers af­ter the April 28 date for the Gen­er­al Elec­tion was an­nounced.

Dr Rai Rag­bir, the Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Cu­mu­to/Man­zanil­la, an­nounced his im­me­di­ate res­ig­na­tion from the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC), ex­press­ing deep dis­ap­point­ment with the par­ty's cur­rent di­rec­tion. In a press re­lease, Dr. Rag­bir stat­ed that the UNC "no longer up­holds the val­ues it once rep­re­sent­ed" and has be­come in­flu­enced by in­di­vid­u­als whose con­duct he finds "deeply trou­bling."

The Ch­agua­nas Cham­ber of Com­merce is call­ing on all po­lit­i­cal lead­ers to ad­dress the ur­gent eco­nom­ic and busi­ness chal­lenges fac­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go, fol­low­ing the an­nounce­ment of the gen­er­al elec­tion on April 28, 2025.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) La Hor­quet­ta/Tal­paro can­di­date Phillip Watts has called on PNM sup­port­ers to close that “red door” and en­ter the “house of yel­low.”

Arrange­ments be­tween the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress and the Con­gress of the Peo­ple are be­ing fi­nalised this week, UNC po­lit­i­cal leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar said on Mon­day.

Po­lit­i­cal par­ties in To­ba­go all say they are ready for bat­tle af­ter the elec­tion date—April 28—was an­nounced yes­ter­day.

Three po­lit­i­cal an­a­lysts be­lieve that new­ly mint­ed Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young’s swift an­nounce­ment of the gen­er­al elec­tion date—less than 24 hours af­ter tak­ing the oath of of­fice—sug­gests in­ter­nal tur­moil with­in the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM). Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Derek Ram­samooj likened the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion to a po­lit­i­cal sprint, short­er than a 60-me­tre dash.

That’s the date an­nounced by the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter (OPM) at 3.50 pm yes­ter­day for T&T’s next gen­er­al elec­tion.

Based on all that our sources have been telling us over the past few weeks, we were not in the least sur­prised yes­ter­day by Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young’s an­nounce­ment of an April 28 elec­tion date.

Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has re­spond­ed to a bul­ly­ing in­ci­dent which oc­curred when he was a stu­dent at St Mary’s Col­lege 33 years ago.

A deputy po­lit­i­cal leader of the Hon­esty, Op­por­tu­ni­ty, Per­for­mance and Em­pow­er­ment (HOPE) par­ty has re­signed fol­low­ing a con­tentious joint meet­ing with the Com­mu­ni­ty Ref­or­ma­tion Net­work (CRM) NGO and the Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA).

Nikoli Ed­wards, leader of the Pro­gres­sive Par­ty, an­nounced that he and his par­ty will not con­test the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion, cit­ing fi­nan­cial con­straints and sys­temic chal­lenges with­in the elec­toral process.