While Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s de­ci­sion to re­sign as Prime Min­is­ter of T&T be­fore the le­gal end of his term is not a unique one, he is set­ting a prece­dent across the Caribbean by re­main­ing leader of the par­ty–the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM)– post-res­ig­na­tion.

The Port-of-Spain City Cor­po­ra­tion and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) are at odds over who re­ceives the mon­ey for wreck­ing ve­hi­cles in the city.

Be­fore every gen­er­al elec­tion, com­pet­ing par­ties hop­ing to form the next gov­ern­ment present man­i­festos out­lin­ing their goals and plans if elect­ed. Did the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ful­fil its am­bi­tious promis­es from the 2020 gen­er­al elec­tion? A clos­er look at their man­i­festo re­veals a mix of achieve­ments and un­met goals. With the next gen­er­al elec­tion im­mi­nent, the Guardian Me­dia In­ves­ti­ga­tions Desk delves in­to the roadmap the rul­ing PNM pre­sent­ed to the pop­u­la­tion ten years ago, ex­am­in­ing the mea­sur­able goals and ac­com­plish­ments dur­ing their tenure.

The An­ti-Kid­nap­ping Unit (AKU) is in­ves­ti­gat­ing the dis­ap­pear­ance of a 15-year-old girl from her home in Barataria on Thurs­day af­ter a $5,000 ran­som was lat­er de­mand­ed for her safe re­turn.

The mur­der toll rose to 71 yes­ter­day fol­low­ing three sep­a­rate shoot­ings in Barataria, Cara­pichaima and Pe­tit Val­ley be­tween Fri­day and yes­ter­day.

The Ch­aguara­mas De­vel­op­ment Au­thor­i­ty (CDA) in­tends to de­fend the evic­tion of the Ch­aguara­mas Mil­i­tary His­to­ry and Aero­space Mu­se­um (CMHAM) in court.

For­mer tem­po­rary op­po­si­tion sen­a­tor Mar­sha Walk­er will con­test the Diego Mar­tin West seat for the Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA).

A new north­bound lane of the Solomon Ho­choy High­way be­tween Ch­agua­nas and Chase Vil­lage should be opened by Wednes­day, says Min­is­ter of Works and Trans­port Ro­han Sinanan.

Po­lice are search­ing for a man who al­leged­ly at­tacked a Clax­ton Bay woman and her son be­fore dam­ag­ing their prop­er­ty at their Clax­ton Bay home.

Mi­grant women con­tin­ue to face chal­lenges in T&T, and as the coun­try marked In­ter­na­tion­al Women’s Day, Chris­tine Boodoo and the Liv­ing Evo­lu­tion Char­i­ty Foun­da­tion do­nat­ed 45 food ham­pers to sup­port strug­gling mi­grant fam­i­lies.

Act­ing Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has vowed to bring leg­is­la­tion to re­form so­cial me­dia should the PNM win the next gen­er­al elec­tion.

Once de­scribed as the right-hand man of La Hor­quet­ta/Tal­paro MP Fos­ter Cum­mings, Phillip Watts emerged as the MP’s po­lit­i­cal ri­val as he walked the con­stituen­cy wear­ing a dark blue jer­sey with yel­low stripes and the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress lo­go on his chest.