The French Clas­si­cal Mu­sic Con­cert will be held on Wednes­day at 6 pm at the Cen­tral Bank Au­di­to­ri­um, Port-of-Spain. The show is or­gan­ised by the French Em­bassy of Trinidad and To­ba­go in part­ner­ship with the Al­liance Française.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has re­spond­ed to con­cerns about her health and age as she ad­dressed a sea of sup­port­ers at their Code Yel­low ral­ly in Aranguez yes­ter­day. Per­sad-Bisses­sar em­pha­sised her un­wa­ver­ing ded­i­ca­tion to the na­tion and her abil­i­ty to lead.

Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young is promis­ing eco­nom­ic trans­for­ma­tion, no de­val­u­a­tion of the TT dol­lar and a brighter fu­ture for T&T with his vi­sion of a “Bold New Chap­ter”, as he warned Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) sup­port­ers not to vote for Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and the “crooked UNC ca­bal”.

Big num­bers on both sides, hot sun match­ing the po­lit­i­cal tem­po de­gree for de­gree–and some sur­pris­es for good mea­sure.

The po­lit­i­cal land­scape of Trinidad and To­ba­go wit­nessed a shift ahead of to­mor­row’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion, as for­mer Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Tabaquite MP, Ani­ta Haynes-Al­leyne, joined the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM).

For­mer deputy po­lit­i­cal leader of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Nafeesa Mo­hammed, who first backed the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) in 2020 af­ter decades in the PNM, is dou­bling down ahead of to­mor­row’s gen­er­al elec­tion—de­clar­ing she will not vote for the par­ty due to its record of weak gov­er­nance.

To­ba­go is in the spot­light for to­mor­row’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion, draw­ing sig­nif­i­cant na­tion­al at­ten­tion. While the is­land has just two seats–To­ba­go East and To­ba­go West–in the 41-mem­ber Par­lia­ment, there has been an in­crease in the num­ber of con­tenders vy­ing to rep­re­sent the is­land.

St Joseph’s Con­vent, Port-of-Spain, has emerged vic­to­ri­ous in the In­ter­na­tion­al Repa­ra­tions De­bate Com­pe­ti­tion, de­feat­ing Claren­don Col­lege of Ja­maica in the fi­nals held on Fri­day at the Cen­tre for Repa­ra­tions Re­search at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, Mona Cam­pus. The Na­tion­al Com­mit­tee on Repa­ra­tions (NCR) ex­tend­ed its heart­felt con­grat­u­la­tions to the team for their ex­cep­tion­al achieve­ment.

In a heart­break­ing farewell for 30-year-old nurse O’delle Lal­man-Bap­tiste—who was kid­napped and mur­dered—rel­a­tives and friends re­mem­bered her as a lov­ing and gen­er­ous per­son dur­ing her fu­ner­al ser­vice.

Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) Gary Grif­fith says the is­sue of cam­paign fi­nanc­ing must be ur­gent­ly ad­dressed ahead of any fur­ther elec­tion in T&T.

For­mer Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) MP for Tabaquite Ani­ta Haynes Al­leyne has ex­plained why she chose to ap­pear at to­day’s Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ral­ly at Ed­die Hart Grounds, say­ing she re­mained com­mit­ted to “na­tion-build­ing pol­i­tics char­ac­terised by in­clu­sion and co-op­er­a­tion.”

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to en­sur­ing a safe and se­cure en­vi­ron­ment as the na­tion ap­proach­es the Gen­er­al Elec­tion. Over the past month, the TTPS has been ac­tive­ly up­dat­ing the pub­lic on its readi­ness to main­tain peace and safe­guard the de­mo­c­ra­t­ic process dur­ing this crit­i­cal pe­ri­od.