Trinidad and To­ba­go's mu­sic fra­ter­ni­ty is mourn­ing the death of Hawthorn "King Welling­ton" Quashie who passed away at the age of 86.

In his first ad­dress as Prime Min­is­ter on a po­lit­i­cal plat­form, Stu­art Young rub­bished claims that the gov­ern­ment was seek­ing to re­move the old age pen­sions of se­nior cit­i­zens. 

The death toll from a pow­er­ful 7.7 mag­ni­tude earth­quake in Myan­mar jumped to more than 1,000 on Sat­ur­day as more bod­ies were pulled from the rub­ble of the scores of build­ings that col­lapsed when it struck near the coun­try’s sec­ond-largest city.

The Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty has stat­ed 11 out of 14 T&T na­tion­als were de­port­ed by the Unit­ed States gov­ern­ment on Fri­day. They ar­rived at Pi­ar­co Air­port at 2:50 am.

Chief Elec­tions Of­fi­cer Fern Nar­cis has re­vealed that 1,154,708 peo­ple are reg­is­tered to vote for the 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tion on April 28, based on a pre­lim­i­nary elec­toral list­ing.

The 100 mem­bers of the T&T Vol­un­teer De­fence Force who were called out last De­cem­ber to as­sist law en­force­ment for three months dur­ing the Christ­mas and Car­ni­val sea­sons, will re­main on the job un­til June af­ter their tenure in the role was ex­tend­ed.

Cer­tain Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) min­is­ters who served with for­mer PNM MP/min­is­ter Kennedy Swarats­ingh in the Patrick Man­ning ad­min­is­tra­tion, have shrugged off his ap­pear­ance on the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ plat­form, his crit­i­cisms of T&T’s state un­der the cur­rent PNM Gov­ern­ment, and his en­dorse­ment of UNC leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar for prime min­is­ter.

For­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) min­is­ter and MP Kennedy Swarats­ingh’s en­dorse­ment of Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has drawn mixed re­ac­tions from po­lit­i­cal an­a­lysts on its po­ten­tial im­pact in the mar­gin­al St Joseph con­stituen­cy, pre­vi­ous­ly held by out­go­ing PNM MP Ter­rence Deyals­ingh.

Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young says he dis­cussed the is­sue of how pro­posed tar­iffs could af­fect T&T’s ship­ping in­dus­try with US Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio dur­ing bi­lat­er­al talks in Ja­maica on Wednes­day.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has rub­bished Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young’s planned Min­istry of Im­ple­men­ta­tion and Ef­fi­cien­cy and says if she is re­turned to of­fice, her gov­ern­ment plans a Min­istry of Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence.

The for­eign ex­change”drought” has been caused by en­er­gy sec­tor pro­duc­tion de­clines and the short­age of US dol­lars will not im­prove over 2025/26 but will get worse, says for­mer Peo­ple’s Part­ner­ship (PP) en­er­gy min­is­ter Kevin Ram­nar­ine.

With the 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tion on the hori­zon, the dom­i­nance of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) and the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) re­mains un­de­ni­able.