Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les, and sev­er­al re­gion­al lead­ers all con­grat­u­lat­ed Dr God­win El­liot Lo­raine Fri­day on his elec­tion as Prime Min­is­ter of St Vin­cent and the Grenadines.

That was the em­phat­ic de­c­la­ra­tion from Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen yes­ter­day as she launched the Cab­i­net-ap­point­ed Bound­aries Re­view Com­mit­tee, a team tasked with cor­rect­ing decades of in­equal­i­ty, con­fu­sion, and com­mu­ni­ty di­vi­sion cre­at­ed by out­dat­ed mu­nic­i­pal lines.

En­er­gy Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal says out­go­ing St Vin­cent and the Grenadines Prime Min­is­ter Dr Ralph Gon­salves was re­duced to win­ning just a sin­gle seat, nar­row­ly cling­ing to po­lit­i­cal sur­vival. He sug­gest­ed that this dra­mat­ic elec­toral out­come, which saw Gon­salves’ Unit­ed Labour Par­ty suf­fer a 14-1 de­feat at the hands of Dr. God­win Fri­day’s New De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty, was part­ly in­flu­enced by the for­mer leader’s pub­lic crit­i­cisms of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s for­eign pol­i­cy.

Op­po­si­tion PNM MP Camille Robin­son-Reg­is has stat­ed that a re­cent med­ical pro­ce­dure she un­der­went was not se­ri­ous, and she ex­pects to re­sume full du­ties in Jan­u­ary.

The Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has con­firmed that no stu­dents were af­fect­ed fol­low­ing an iso­lat­ed food-safe­ty breach in­volv­ing a batch of roti in­tend­ed for the na­tion­al School Nu­tri­tion Pro­gramme.

Sev­en months af­ter los­ing her com­mon-law hus­band to a sud­den heart at­tack, 44-year-old Rose­mary Seenath now faces an even deep­er heart­break—home­less­ness.

Two ban­dits at­tempt­ed to abduct a mo­torist af­ter rob­bing him on Thurs­day in San Fer­nan­do, but the 34-year-old Freeport man fought back and es­caped.

A ju­ry de­lib­er­at­ed for less than two hours be­fore ac­quit­ting Ray Paul Julien of a 12-year-old mur­der charge.

While ac­knowl­edg­ing that a year-end uptick in cer­tain types of crime was ex­pect­ed, ACP in charge of the Crim­i­nal Di­vi­sion, Richard Smith, said height­ened po­lice pres­ence in shop­ping cen­tres is in­flu­enc­ing crim­i­nal pat­terns and urged the pub­lic to ad­just their rou­tines to make them­selves less vul­ner­a­ble tar­gets.

Front­line work­ers across Trinidad and To­ba­go are grow­ing in­creas­ing­ly frus­trat­ed as fire­fight­ers, teach­ers, and civ­il ser­vants await over­due salary ad­just­ments and back pay, while the process re­mains mired in bu­reau­cra­cy and un­cer­tain­ty.

One man was ar­rest­ed and three firearms were seized dur­ing State of Emer­gency op­er­a­tions con­duct­ed overnight in the North­ern and North East­ern Di­vi­sions.

Two male sus­pects have been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with a rob­bery in­volv­ing a maxi taxi and its pas­sen­gers along the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route in Arou­ca on No­vem­ber 19.