The Coun­cil for Re­spon­si­ble Po­lit­i­cal Be­hav­iour has start­ed to mon­i­tor ac­tiv­i­ties re­lat­ed to all po­lit­i­cal par­ties, can­di­dates and sup­port­ers af­ter the April 28 date for the Gen­er­al Elec­tion was an­nounced.

Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has fi­nal­ly bro­ken his si­lence on a bul­ly­ing in­ci­dent in­volv­ing him which oc­curred some 33 years ago while he was a stu­dent at St Mary’s Col­lege in Port-of-Spain.

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.

That was the re­ac­tion from Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day, fol­low­ing the news that Cu­mu­to/Man­zanil­la MP Dr Rai Rag­bir had re­signed from the par­ty.

Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les, in his maid­en speech to­day, ad­mit­ted that the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty has not been ef­fec­tive in com­mu­ni­cat­ing with the pub­lic.

Op­po­si­tion Led­er Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has writ­ten a let­ter to Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young re­quest­ing in­de­pen­dent in­ter­na­tion­al elec­tion ob­servers for the up­com­ing 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tions.

Dr Rai Rag­bir, the Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Cu­mu­to/Man­zanil­la, an­nounced his im­me­di­ate res­ig­na­tion from the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC), ex­press­ing deep dis­ap­point­ment with the par­ty's cur­rent di­rec­tion. In a press re­lease, Dr. Rag­bir stat­ed that the UNC "no longer up­holds the val­ues it once rep­re­sent­ed" and has be­come in­flu­enced by in­di­vid­u­als whose con­duct he finds "deeply trou­bling."

The Ch­agua­nas Cham­ber of Com­merce is call­ing on all po­lit­i­cal lead­ers to ad­dress the ur­gent eco­nom­ic and busi­ness chal­lenges fac­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go, fol­low­ing the an­nounce­ment of the gen­er­al elec­tion on April 28, 2025.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) La Hor­quet­ta/Tal­paro can­di­date Phillip Watts has called on PNM sup­port­ers to close that “red door” and en­ter the “house of yel­low.”

Arrange­ments be­tween the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress and the Con­gress of the Peo­ple are be­ing fi­nalised this week, UNC po­lit­i­cal leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar said on Mon­day.

Po­lit­i­cal par­ties in To­ba­go all say they are ready for bat­tle af­ter the elec­tion date—April 28—was an­nounced yes­ter­day.

Three po­lit­i­cal an­a­lysts be­lieve that new­ly mint­ed Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young’s swift an­nounce­ment of the gen­er­al elec­tion date—less than 24 hours af­ter tak­ing the oath of of­fice—sug­gests in­ter­nal tur­moil with­in the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM). Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Derek Ram­samooj likened the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion to a po­lit­i­cal sprint, short­er than a 60-me­tre dash.