Unit­ed States Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio yes­ter­day called on Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young to sup­port moves against Venezuela’s Nico­las Maduro’s ad­min­is­tra­tion dur­ing a bi­lat­er­al meet­ing in Kingston, Ja­maica.

The Coun­cil for Re­spon­si­ble Po­lit­i­cal Be­hav­iour is urg­ing po­lit­i­cal par­ties and prospec­tive can­di­dates to re­frain from us­ing State re­sources as part of their cam­paigns. This comes af­ter the con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh’s al­leged dis­tri­b­u­tion of Min­istry of Health (MoH) wa­ter bot­tles dur­ing his elec­tion walk­a­bouts.

Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Roger Alexan­der, who was last as­signed to the An­ti-Ex­tor­tion Unit, has re­signed from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice and has been tipped as the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ prospec­tive can­di­date for Tu­na­puna. 

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Vish­nu Dhan­paul has de­ferred all com­ments on the sack­ing of vlog­ger and com­mu­ni­ca­tions con­sul­tant Rho­da Bharath to his pre­de­ces­sor Colm Im­bert.

As the UNC pre­pares for the gen­er­al elec­tion, can­di­dates screened for cru­cial seats re­main on alert, await­ing their fate.

As she in­tro­duced her par­ty’s two can­di­dates in To­ba­go yes­ter­day, Pa­tri­ot­ic Front leader Mick­ela Pan­day vowed not to use au­ton­o­my as a po­lit­i­cal bar­gain­ing tool. The de­ci­sion on To­ba­go’s self-gov­er­nance must come from its peo­ple, not politi­cians, she said.

Since 2020, Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) can­di­date for Diego Mar­tin West, Hans Des Vi­gnes, has had po­lit­i­cal as­pi­ra­tions. How­ev­er, at that time he felt un­pre­pared.

San Fer­nan­do West is a con­stituen­cy of sharp con­trasts, where wealthy fam­i­lies, mid­dle-class res­i­dents, and some of Trinidad’s poor­est squat­ters live side by side—yet re­main worlds apart.

The Unit­ed King­dom-based Privy Coun­cil will have the fi­nal say in a nov­el con­sti­tu­tion­al chal­lenge over this coun­try’s ho­mo­pho­bic bug­gery and se­ri­ous in­de­cen­cy laws.

A firearm deal­er and three long-stand­ing firearm user's li­cence (FUL) hold­ers have scored a ma­jor vic­to­ry in their law­suit over a new process for the re­new­al of FULs. 

To­ba­go po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tors be­lieve re­venge may have been the mo­tive be­hind the mur­der of 32-year-old Ver­na­do George, who was gunned down at Cour­land Her­itage Park, Tur­tle Beach, Black Rock, on Tues­day af­ter­noon.

A man who want­ed to be­come a po­lice of­fi­cer af­ter his fa­ther was killed dur­ing a home in­va­sion and who was barred from en­ter­ing be­cause of two tat­toos, has been award­ed $300,000.