To­ba­go now has more gangs than sev­er­al dis­tricts in Trinidad, and ac­cord­ing to Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine, had the is­land’s se­cu­ri­ty ap­pa­ra­tus got the re­sources and sup­port it need­ed, the sit­u­a­tion would have been vast­ly dif­fer­ent.

For a sec­ond time in less than two years, Wat­son Duke had to be es­cort­ed out of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Leg­is­la­ture cham­ber, af­ter re­fus­ing to stay qui­et while com­plain­ing about the use of in­sults by an as­sem­bly­man dur­ing a de­bate.

Still reel­ing from the mur­der of his son Raphael Gob­in in De­cem­ber, Roger Gob­in says he feels emo­tion­al­ly drained af­ter the death of his sec­ond son Randy Gob­in, af­ter a pur­port­ed shoot-out with po­lice in Ch­agua­nas on Tues­day night.

Tourism, Cul­ture and the Arts Min­is­ter Ran­dall Mitchell has been cho­sen as the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) can­di­date for La Brea in the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion. He got the nod over La Brea con­stituen­cy chair­man Jer­mel Pierre, 32, fol­low­ing a screen­ing ex­er­cise at Bal­isi­er House, Port-of-Spain, last night.

Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds has warned crim­i­nals not to en­gage po­lice of­fi­cers, par­tic­u­lar­ly dur­ing the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE), as there is an in­creased pos­si­bil­i­ty of a fa­tal out­come.

For­mer Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) chair­man Jack Warn­er has plead­ed with the par­ty to name more can­di­dates for the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion.

Machel Mon­tano has en­tered the Chut­ney So­ca Monarch (CSM) com­pe­ti­tion and qual­i­fied for the semi­fi­nals of the event, Southex an­nounced yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

Pro­gres­sive Em­pow­er­ment Par­ty (PEP) leader Philip Alexan­der says the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) may want to think again if it be­lieves Diego Mar­tin will re­main a PNM strong­hold.

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) will to­day screen gen­er­al elec­tion nom­i­nees for the Ch­agua­nas West and Na­pari­ma seats held by two so-called “dis­si­dent” MPs. Among those fac­ing the screen­ing pan­el will be pub­lic re­la­tions of­fi­cer (PRO) Kirk Meighoo for Ch­agua­nas West, while for­mer Peo­ple’s Part­ner­ship min­is­ter Kevin Ram­nar­ine is among nom­i­nees for Ma­yaro, the seat of a third “dis­si­dent” MP.

Rudolph Hanamji, co-chair and co-founder of PrideTT, has sharply crit­i­cised Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, ac­cus­ing her of be­ing mis­in­formed about the is­sues fac­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s LGBTQ+ com­mu­ni­ty. Hanamji ar­gued that Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s crit­i­cism of for­mer US Pres­i­dent Joe Biden’s poli­cies was a missed op­por­tu­ni­ty to set her­self apart from the cur­rent gov­ern­ment.

A re­port on the find­ings sur­round­ing a cy­ber­se­cu­ri­ty breach at the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed (TSTT) in Oc­to­ber 2023 has been re­leased, and the Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Work­ers’ Union (CWU) is call­ing for a full pub­lic dis­clo­sure.

The T&T Postal Work­ers’ Union (TTP­WU) says it in­tends to re­spond to a pe­ti­tion sent to the union by work­ers, re­quest­ing that it ac­cept a four per cent wage of­fer by the T&T Postal Cor­po­ra­tion (TTPost).