For­mer Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Ca­roni Cen­tral, Arnold Ram has said that his ded­i­ca­tion to the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) re­mains un­wa­ver­ing af­ter be­ing over­looked as a nom­i­nee for the April 28 gen­er­al elec­tion, de­spite his dis­ap­point­ment in be­ing left out.

The Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) will con­test St Ann’s East and Port-of-Spain South in the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion as part of a new coali­tion with the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC).

For­mer Snr Supt of po­lice and prospec­tive can­di­date for Tu­na­puna Roger Alexan­der has vowed that ad­di­tion­al re­sources and equip­ment would be in­vest­ed in this coun­try’s na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies if the UNC is vot­ed in­to of­fice.

Talks be­tween Garvin Nicholas and the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) have col­lapsed, prompt­ing the Move­ment for Na­tion­al De­vel­op­ment (MND) leader to con­firm he will in­de­pen­dent­ly con­test the Diego Mar­tin North East seat in the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion.

While the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) calls for in­de­pen­dent in­ter­na­tion­al elec­tion ob­servers for next month’s Gen­er­al Elec­tions, the Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) and HOPE be­lieve Cari­com’s pres­ence will suf­fice.

Find­ing the log­ic be­hind de­ci­sions made by politi­cians re­lat­ing to the de­ter­mi­na­tion of the elec­tion date is akin to Bas­deo Pan­day’s dic­tum that “pol­i­tics has a moral­i­ty of its own.” That left be­hind, the ex­pec­ta­tion must now be that the elec­torate will have to adopt far more con­ven­tion­al log­ic to elect­ing a par­ty and even­tu­al­ly a gov­ern­ment to suc­cess­ful­ly han­dle the af­fairs of the coun­try for the next five years.

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) has called on the Coun­cil for Re­spon­si­ble Po­lit­i­cal Be­hav­iour not to make any ref­er­ence to the par­ty in its mon­i­tor­ing of the op­er­a­tions of po­lit­i­cal par­ties, not­ing that the UNC with­drew from the coun­cil this year.

Since the an­nounce­ment of the April 28 date for the Gen­er­al Elec­tion, there has been a surge in the num­ber of peo­ple vis­it­ing the of­fices of the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) across the coun­try.

The Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP), led by Wat­son Duke, will launch its can­di­dates and man­i­festo next Mon­day—and the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), which launched its can­di­dates last Sun­day, hasn’t said when its man­i­festo will be launched.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has got­ten her wish to have in­de­pen­dent in­ter­na­tion­al ob­servers for the Gen­er­al Elec­tion on April 28. The an­nounce­ment was made by Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young dur­ing his first post-Cab­i­net meet­ing as the new head of Gov­ern­ment at White­hall, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day.

The 41 per­sons who were ap­point­ed to serve as Re­turn­ing Of­fi­cers for the April 28, 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tions were pre­sent­ed with Writs of Elec­tion is­sued by Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo giv­ing them the au­thor­i­ty to cause a poll to be tak­en in their re­spec­tive

Ro­man Catholic priest Fa­ther David Khan says hold­ing a Gen­er­al Elec­tion dur­ing Lent can cre­ate a height­ened po­lit­i­cal cli­mate that could over­shad­ow the re­flec­tive na­ture of the sea­son, lead­ing to po­lar­iza­tion and po­lit­i­cal at­tacks.