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.

Two busi­ness­es owned by To­ba­go busi­ness mag­nate Al­lan Warn­er have lodged a fi­nal ap­peal over the re­fusal of the lo­cal courts to grant an in­junc­tion over the re­lease of heavy equip­ment and a prop­er­ty that was seized by the po­lice as part of an on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to their min­ing op­er­a­tion.

The Chief of De­fence Staff (CDS) has been giv­en a month to re­con­sid­er the pro­mo­tion of a se­nior T&T Coast Guard (TTCG) of­fi­cer, who claimed that he was by­passed for pro­mo­tion in favour of a ju­nior col­league.

Po­lit­i­cal leader of the In­no­v­a­tive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Al­liance (IDA), Denise Tsoiafatt-An­gus, has asked To­bag­o­ni­ans to be wary of what she calls “ham­per pol­i­tics”, where politi­cians dis­trib­ute food and favours to se­cure votes while ig­nor­ing the is­land’s re­al is­sues.

The mur­der toll rose to 97 yes­ter­day fol­low­ing three killings in two sep­a­rate shoot­ings in Diego Mar­tin and Cara­pichaima on Thurs­day night.

As emer­gency au­thor­i­ties and vol­un­teers in South­east Asia con­tin­ue to deal with the af­ter­math of a 7.7 mag­ni­tude earth­quake which left hun­dreds dead and in­jured, the Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Dr Amery Browne has con­firmed that no Trinida­di­ans were among those se­ri­ous­ly af­fect­ed.

Po­lice con­firmed yes­ter­day that they have not yet found the body of Joann Estick, but a sus­pect has been ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with her mur­der. 

The St. Kits-Nevis gov­ern­ment Fri­day signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing (MoU) with the Nige­ria-based Green Eco­nom­ic Zone (GEZ) Spe­cial Eco­nom­ic Zone Man­age­ment Com­pa­ny for the es­tab­lish­ment of a state-of-the-art Agro Hub Ware­house and Lo­gis­tics Cen­tre on the Caribbean coun­try.