With SEA ex­ams just days away, the THA's Di­vi­sion of Ed­u­ca­tion, Re­search and Tech­nol­o­gy of (DERTech) is ask­ing all po­lit­i­cal par­ties and their sup­port­ers to shut off the noise.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Deputy Po­lit­i­cal Leader and can­di­date for Ca­roni Cen­tral, David Lee, has been cleared of fraud charges re­lat­ed to tax ex­emp­tions on his ve­hi­cle as a Par­lia­men­tar­i­an.

An un­cle and nephew have been charged with the mur­der of Joanne Estick, a Siparia woman whose sev­ered head was found in a cool­er.

As Trinidad and To­ba­go pre­pares for its up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion, a lead­ing tech­nol­o­gy ex­pert is rais­ing red flags about the grow­ing role of ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence in po­lit­i­cal cam­paign­ing.

This time, it fol­lows a post by the Face­book page Kick out the PNM, which al­leged that CEPEP work­ers were “strong­ly ad­vised” to at­tend po­lit­i­cal events where the Prime Min­is­ter would be present.

The An­ju­man Sun­nat-ul-Ja­maat As­so­ci­a­tion (AS­JA) is dis­tanc­ing it­self from po­lit­i­cal com­ments made by some Imams and says those views should be clear­ly pre­sent­ed as per­son­al opin­ions, not of­fi­cial po­si­tions.

Health of­fi­cials have con­firmed an eighth case of malar­ia in Trinidad and To­ba­go for 2025, fol­low­ing en­hanced sur­veil­lance ef­forts in south Trinidad.

The En­er­gy Cham­ber of Trinidad & To­ba­go has joined the na­tion in mourn­ing the pass­ing of Mark Lo­quan, a past mem­ber of the En­er­gy Cham­ber's Board, re­fer­ring to him as "a dis­tin­guished leader of the na­tion­al and glob­al en­er­gy in­dus­try."

Pres­i­dent of the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, Luis Abi­nad­er, has an­nounced a se­ries of mea­sures aimed at bol­ster­ing bor­der se­cu­ri­ty and tight­en­ing mi­gra­tion con­trol as its neigh­bour, Haiti, con­tin­ues to be faced with po­lit­i­cal and se­cu­ri­ty con­cerns.

Glob­al stock mar­kets ex­tend­ed a se­vere plunge Mon­day, fu­eled by fears that U.S. tar­iffs would lead to a glob­al eco­nom­ic slow­down. Eu­ro­pean and Asian shares saw dra­mat­ic loss­es, the lead­ing U.S. in­dex flirt­ed with bear mar­ket ter­ri­to­ry in pre-mar­ket trad­ing, and oil prices sagged.

Pa­tri­ot­ic Front (PF) Po­lit­i­cal Leader Mick­ela Pan­day in­tends to file an of­fi­cial com­plaint with the Coun­cil for Re­spon­si­ble Po­lit­i­cal Be­hav­iour about “scare tac­tics” against her mem­bers al­leged­ly by two ma­jor po­lit­i­cal par­ties.

Po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tist Dr Bish­nu Ra­goonath be­lieves Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s an­nounce­ment that she has fi­nal­ly purged the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress is her de­c­la­ra­tion that the late Bas­deo Pan­day’s in­flu­ence in the par­ty is now over and there is al­so no way back for his daugh­ter in the par­ty.