Less than two weeks be­fore the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion, the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) has un­veiled its man­i­festo, promis­ing a “bold, new chap­ter” of na­tion­al trans­for­ma­tion.

Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh says the Gov­ern­ment has to re­open ten­ders for a car­diac catheter­i­za­tion lab at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, in ac­cor­dance with the Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion (OPR).

The Pan Amer­i­can Health Or­ga­ni­za­tion (PA­HO) says there is an ur­gent need to strength­en pub­lic health ca­pac­i­ties in the in­sti­tu­tions of the re­gion of the Amer­i­c­as to en­sure uni­ver­sal ac­cess to health and re­spond ef­fec­tive­ly to cur­rent and fu­ture health chal­lenges.

A sus­pect in a shoot­ing at a Dal­las high school that wound­ed four stu­dents and drew a heavy po­lice re­sponse to the cam­pus has been tak­en in­to cus­tody, school dis­trict of­fi­cials an­nounced Tues­day night.

Head of TTPS To­ba­go Di­vi­sion, Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Earl Elie, is re­mind­ing po­lit­i­cal lead­ers and sup­port­ers in To­ba­go that “there is life af­ter elec­tions” as po­lice con­tin­ue to work be­hind the scenes to en­sure the is­land re­mains peace­ful dur­ing the cam­paign sea­son.

The To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion (TH­TA) has writ­ten to Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young, Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine, and oth­er gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials, rais­ing the alarm over four ur­gent is­sues af­fect­ing the is­land’s tourism and hos­pi­tal­i­ty sec­tor.

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) is call­ing for the im­me­di­ate re­moval of an­oth­er Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) re­turn­ing of­fi­cer, this time from the San Fer­nan­do East con­stituen­cy.

For­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) at­tor­ney gen­er­al John Je­re­mie’s en­dorse­ment of Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has sparked strong re­ac­tions with­in the PNM, but Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has re­mained silent.

With less than two weeks be­fore the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, ten­sions are ris­ing in Moru­ga/Table­land.

Pro­gres­sive Em­pow­er­ment Par­ty (PEP) leader Phillip Ed­ward Alexan­der has threat­ened to sue Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) leader Gary Grif­fith for defama­tion.

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr Shane Mo­hammed has de­scribed for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie’s re­cent pub­lic en­dorse­ment of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) as a po­lit­i­cal bomb­shell.

Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Gen­er­al Elec­tion can­di­date for To­ba­go West Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis is ac­cus­ing the cur­rent To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) un­der Far­ley Au­gus­tine of squan­der­ing bil­lions and fail­ing to de­liv­er jobs and sup­port to To­bag­o­ni­ans.