An­tho­ny La Fleur, known as Squeezy Rankin, won the Young King Ca­lyp­so Monarch Com­pe­ti­tion 2025 with his song Jus­tice, which fo­cused on fair­ness and equal­i­ty. His lyrics and stage pres­ence se­cured him the top spot.

It’s no or­di­nary life they sent him on to when they quick­ly re­turned not guilty ver­dicts Tues­day on two counts of felony as­sault with a semi­au­to­mat­ic hand­gun.

There are ap­prox­i­mate­ly four nom­i­nees to be screened by the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) to­day for the Cu­mu­to-Man­zanil­la seat. Screen­ing will be done at the UNC’s Ch­agua­nas head of­fice this evening, where nom­i­nees for Tabaquite, Point Fortin, La Brea, and oth­er ar­eas will al­so be in­ter­viewed.

Crown Point was alive with the en­er­gy of Car­ni­val on Mon­day night as the b Square event trans­formed the streets in­to a vi­brant so­ca-filled par­ty.

A man de­scribed by po­lice as a high-rank­ing gang mem­ber in To­ba­go is among 84 peo­ple held by po­lice as part of on­go­ing an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions un­der the State of Emer­gency (SoE).

The on­go­ing pro­mo­tion process for po­lice in­spec­tors who were seek­ing to move up to the rank of As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dent of Po­lice (ASP) has been scrapped. 

Tabaquite res­i­dents say they are clue­less about the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) de­ci­sion to drop its prospec­tive can­di­date Anil Ramjit af­ter re­open­ing nom­i­na­tions on Mon­day.

There is a po­lit­i­cal toss-up in the Tabaquite con­stituen­cy, with the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ex­ec­u­tive re­ject­ing its prospec­tive can­di­date, Anil Ramjit, at the last minute, and the can­di­da­cy of in­cum­bent MP Ani­ta Haynes-Al­leyne, a so-called UNC dis­si­dent, up in the air as screen­ing is set for to­day.

A for­mer coun­cil­lor with the PNM, an ex-UNC Youth Arm mem­ber, and a for­mer co­or­di­na­tor with the THA are all among the sev­en can­di­dates cho­sen by the Pa­tri­ot­ic Front to con­test seats in the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion.

One of the five so-called “dis­si­dents” with­in the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) has not ruled out the pos­si­bil­i­ty of join­ing an­oth­er po­lit­i­cal par­ty if he is not se­lect­ed to rep­re­sent his con­stituen­cy.

As Cari­com Heads of Gov­ern­ment meet to­day, Pro­fes­sor of In­ter­na­tion­al Re­la­tions Andy Knight urges lead­ers to con­sid­er strength­en­ing part­ner­ships with Cana­da and Chi­na to di­ver­si­fy trade away from the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca (US).

Cari­com’s 48th Heads of Gov­ern­ment con­fer­ence which Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Dr Amery Browne are at­tend­ing in Bar­ba­dos from to­day, will see Unit­ed Na­tions Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al An­tónio Guter­res and Eu­ro­pean Com­mis­sion pres­i­dent Ur­su­la von der Leyen al­so in at­ten­dance.