An an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion con­duct­ed in the Cou­va and Freeport Po­lice dis­tricts on Sun­day led to the seizure of a home­made shot­gun, am­mu­ni­tion, cannabis, and an ar­ti­cle of cam­ou­flage cloth­ing.

Maulana Atif Ma­jeed Su­laimani has urged cit­i­zens not to al­low pol­i­tics and elec­tions to cre­ate di­vi­sion among them.

Princes Town con­stituen­cy has a new face for the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion, as den­tist, Dr Aiy­na Ali, has been cho­sen by the UNC ex­ec­u­tive to con­test the safe seat.

Kraigg Brath­waite has stepped down as West In­dies Test cap­tain. Crick­et West In­dies says he had first in­di­cat­ed his in­ten­tion to do so to CWI lead­er­ship ear­li­er this year ahead of the com­ple­tion of the West In­dies’ suc­cess­ful tour of Pak­istan.

Op­po­si­tion Leader, Kam­la Per­sad-Bies­sas­sar, has an­nounced Bar­ry Padarath will be the UNC’s prospec­tive can­di­date for Cou­va South.

A mas­sive earth­quake that rocked Myan­mar could ex­ac­er­bate hunger and dis­ease out­breaks in a coun­try al­ready wracked by food short­ages, mass dis­place­ment and civ­il war, aid groups and the Unit­ed Na­tions warned Mon­day. The of­fi­cial death toll climbed past 1,700, but the true fig­ure is feared to be much high­er.

Amid re­port­ed dis­con­tent with­in the par­ty over the se­lec­tion of some Gen­er­al Elec­tion can­di­dates, Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has as­sured sup­port­ers that she is not wor­ried about any fall­out and says “all is well.”

Chal­leng­ing Cul­ture Min­is­ter Ran­dall Mitchell to an­swer this ques­tion yes­ter­day, as she said they had not ap­plied for any fund­ing this year, Arch­bish­op Bar­bara Gray-Burke said the measly of­fer from the Gov­ern­ment of $30,000 to host 2025 Spir­i­tu­al Bap­tist Lib­er­a­tion Day cel­e­bra­tions in Mau­si­ca was too lit­tle and in­sult­ing.

Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) po­lit­i­cal leader Gary Grif­fith says the doors of his par­ty are open to Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress dis­si­dents Rush­ton Paray, Dr Rai Rag­bir, Ani­ta Haynes-Al­leyne, Di­nesh Ram­bal­ly and Rod­ney Charles.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment To­ba­go Coun­cil po­lit­i­cal leader An­cil Den­nis is warn­ing To­bag­o­ni­ans to en­sure they ex­am­ine the oth­er con­tenders to see what they are tru­ly of­fer­ing.

There were mixed re­ac­tions in the con­stituen­cy to for­mer se­nior su­per­in­ten­dent Roger Alexan­der be­ing cho­sen as the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress; (UNC) can­di­date for Tu­na­puna in the up­com­ing Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Two po­lit­i­cal an­a­lysts have de­scribed the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ (UNC) se­lec­tion of for­mer se­nior su­per­in­ten­dent Roger Alexan­der to con­test the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment-held Tu­na­puna seat as a strate­gic move.