The Chief of Mis­sion of the Cari­com ob­serv­er team in Trinidad and To­ba­go for the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, Ian Hugh­es says the team does not an­tic­i­pate any ma­jor vi­o­lence or oth­er sig­nif­i­cant dis­rup­tions on Mon­day.

With just days to go be­fore Trinidad and To­ba­go's Gen­er­al Elec­tion on Mon­day, the lat­est poll con­duct­ed by the North Amer­i­can Caribbean Teach­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (NAC­TA) re­veals a fierce­ly con­test­ed race, with no ma­jor par­ty—nei­ther the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) nor the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC)—hold­ing a de­ci­sive lead in sev­er­al crit­i­cal swing con­stituen­cies.

PNM To­ba­go West can­di­date Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis says TPP’s Joel “Nuttsy” Samp­son has not spo­ken a sin­gle word to vot­ers on his own through­out the cam­paign—and she’s dar­ing him to put down the writ­ten speech­es and face To­ba­go.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has pub­licly re­ject­ed for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s claim that the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) re­quest­ed two Toy­ota Pra­dos in its ini­tial oil spill re­sponse bill, call­ing the state­ment false and mis­lead­ing.

That was so­ca star Neil “Iw­er” George’s re­sponse to Guardian Me­dia’s point­ed ques­tion on if he is sup­port­ing the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) and Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar in the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion.

The Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) has "un­equiv­o­cal­ly con­demned" a cir­cu­lat­ing pho­to which claims the Com­mis­sion’s Chief Elec­tion Of­fi­cer (CEO) and sev­er­al Re­turn­ing Of­fi­cers are af­fil­i­at­ed with a po­lit­i­cal par­ty.

Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young met with the Chief of Mis­sion of the CARI­COM Elec­tion Ob­ser­va­tion Mis­sion (CEOM), Ian Hugh­es, and oth­er mem­bers of the ob­serv­er team at the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre in St Ann’s on Wednes­day, five days ahead of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s gen­er­al elec­tion.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Vish­nu Dhan­paul says a re-elect­ed PNM ad­min­is­tra­tion may in­crease the Se­nior Cit­i­zens' Grant once there is fis­cal space.

The Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion is con­firm­ing that over four­teen hun­dred spe­cial elec­tors have so far cast their vote.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) deputy po­lit­i­cal leader Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has de­nied claims by for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley that the UNC is col­lab­o­rat­ing with the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP).

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) can­di­date for Port-of-Spain South, Kei­th Scot­land, has con­firmed a mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar fish­ing fa­cil­i­ty is in the works for the Pro­duc­tion Dri­ve area.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has been asked to in­crease the Dis­abil­i­ty Grant from $2,000 to $3,500 and to al­lo­cate food cards to the dis­abled com­mu­ni­ty if her par­ty forms the next gov­ern­ment.