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.

UNC Chair­man Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo is com­plain­ing the Coun­cil for Re­spon­si­ble Po­lit­i­cal Be­hav­iour, which the par­ty with­drew from in Jan­u­ary, has "no le­gal au­thor­i­ty" over its af­fairs and should re­frain from any com­men­tary about its con­duct.

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.

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.

We al­so agree with him that it is a mat­ter that should nev­er be politi­cised. This is why the tim­ing of this week's vi­ral post on an in­ci­dent in which he was in­volved, as a teenag­er 33 years ago at St Mary's Col­lege, is very un­for­tu­nate.

A day af­ter the elec­tion bell rang, prospec­tive can­di­dates in the Diego Mar­tin West con­stituen­cy, for both the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) and Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA), pound­ed the pave­ments, walk­ing and meet­ing res­i­dents in the area.

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.

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.

Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has re­spond­ed to a bul­ly­ing in­ci­dent which oc­curred when he was a stu­dent at St Mary’s Col­lege 33 years ago.

That’s the date an­nounced by the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter (OPM) at 3.50 pm yes­ter­day for T&T’s next gen­er­al elec­tion.

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.