Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les is claim­ing that should an­oth­er po­lit­i­cal par­ty as­sume of­fice af­ter the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, in­ter­na­tion­al as­sis­tance in treat­ing crime may no longer be forth­com­ing.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Postal Work­ers Union (TTP­WU) has raised se­ri­ous alarm over the treat­ment of TTPost work­ers, warn­ing that sys­temic un­der­staffing and op­er­a­tional strain could jeop­ar­dise the time­ly de­liv­ery of poll cards to thou­sands of cit­i­zens ahead of the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) can­di­date for To­ba­go West Joel Mar­cus Samp­son says if elect­ed to Par­lia­ment, he will con­tin­ue the work he start­ed un­der the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly—es­pe­cial­ly in youth de­vel­op­ment, sports, and com­mu­ni­ty em­pow­er­ment.

Head of TTPS To­ba­go Di­vi­sion, Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Earl Elie, is re­mind­ing po­lit­i­cal lead­ers and sup­port­ers in To­ba­go that “there is life af­ter elec­tions” as po­lice con­tin­ue to work be­hind the scenes to en­sure the is­land re­mains peace­ful dur­ing the cam­paign sea­son.

With all eyes on sev­er­al mar­gin­al seats in the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed Barataria/San Juan—a seat the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) won by 1,060 votes in the 2020 Gen­er­al Elec­tion—to get the views of con­stituents this time around.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) can­di­date for Ch­agua­nas West, Pas­tor Win­ston Ma­habir, is call­ing for ur­gent im­prove­ments to the cre­ma­tion site in Fe­lic­i­ty, say­ing its cur­rent state adds to the dis­tress of griev­ing fam­i­lies.

As cam­paign­ing heats up with just two weeks to go be­fore the April 28 gen­er­al elec­tion, sev­er­al posters and ban­ners be­long­ing to PNM and UNC can­di­dates in the Moru­ga/Table­land con­stituen­cy have been van­dalised.

With less than two weeks to go be­fore the 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, the bat­tle for Ch­agua­nas East is heat­ing up as both ma­jor par­ties in­ten­si­fy cam­paign­ing in what is shap­ing up to be one of the most close­ly watched con­tests in Cen­tral Trinidad.

As Trinidad and To­ba­go pre­pares for its up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion, a lead­ing tech­nol­o­gy ex­pert is rais­ing red flags about the grow­ing role of ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence in po­lit­i­cal cam­paign­ing.

The An­ju­man Sun­nat-ul-Ja­maat As­so­ci­a­tion (AS­JA) is dis­tanc­ing it­self from po­lit­i­cal com­ments made by some Imams and says those views should be clear­ly pre­sent­ed as per­son­al opin­ions, not of­fi­cial po­si­tions.

A to­tal of 161 can­di­dates will be con­test­ing the up­com­ing Par­lia­men­tary Elec­tions on April 28, the Elec­tion and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) has con­firmed.

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).