The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) has called on the Coun­cil for Re­spon­si­ble Po­lit­i­cal Be­hav­iour not to make any ref­er­ence to the par­ty in its mon­i­tor­ing of the op­er­a­tions of po­lit­i­cal par­ties, not­ing that the UNC with­drew from the coun­cil this year.

Since the an­nounce­ment of the April 28 date for the Gen­er­al Elec­tion, there has been a surge in the num­ber of peo­ple vis­it­ing the of­fices of the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) across the coun­try.

The Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP), led by Wat­son Duke, will launch its can­di­dates and man­i­festo next Mon­day—and the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), which launched its can­di­dates last Sun­day, hasn’t said when its man­i­festo will be launched.

The 41 per­sons who were ap­point­ed to serve as Re­turn­ing Of­fi­cers for the April 28, 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tions were pre­sent­ed with Writs of Elec­tion is­sued by Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo giv­ing them the au­thor­i­ty to cause a poll to be tak­en in their re­spec­tive

Ro­man Catholic priest Fa­ther David Khan says hold­ing a Gen­er­al Elec­tion dur­ing Lent can cre­ate a height­ened po­lit­i­cal cli­mate that could over­shad­ow the re­flec­tive na­ture of the sea­son, lead­ing to po­lar­iza­tion and po­lit­i­cal at­tacks.

A day af­ter the elec­tion bell rang, prospec­tive can­di­dates in the Diego Mar­tin West con­stituen­cy, for both the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) and Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA), pound­ed the pave­ments, walk­ing and meet­ing res­i­dents in the area.

We al­so agree with him that it is a mat­ter that should nev­er be politi­cised. This is why the tim­ing of this week's vi­ral post on an in­ci­dent in which he was in­volved, as a teenag­er 33 years ago at St Mary's Col­lege, is very un­for­tu­nate.

Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has fi­nal­ly bro­ken his si­lence on a bul­ly­ing in­ci­dent in­volv­ing him which oc­curred some 33 years ago while he was a stu­dent at St Mary’s Col­lege in Port-of-Spain.

UNC Chair­man Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo is com­plain­ing the Coun­cil for Re­spon­si­ble Po­lit­i­cal Be­hav­iour, which the par­ty with­drew from in Jan­u­ary, has "no le­gal au­thor­i­ty" over its af­fairs and should re­frain from any com­men­tary about its con­duct.

That was the re­ac­tion from Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day, fol­low­ing the news that Cu­mu­to/Man­zanil­la MP Dr Rai Rag­bir had re­signed from the par­ty.

Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les, in his maid­en speech to­day, ad­mit­ted that the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty has not been ef­fec­tive in com­mu­ni­cat­ing with the pub­lic.

Op­po­si­tion Led­er Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has writ­ten a let­ter to Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young re­quest­ing in­de­pen­dent in­ter­na­tion­al elec­tion ob­servers for the up­com­ing 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tions.