The po­lit­i­cal cli­mate is heat­ing up, af­ter the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) yes­ter­day be­gan ef­forts to forge al­liances with small­er po­lit­i­cal par­ties and promi­nent trade unions to take on the rul­ing Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment in the next gen­er­al elec­tion.

Hours af­ter the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress an­nounced it was meet­ing with small­er par­ties and some trade unions, the Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) said it would “drink wa­ter and mind its busi­ness.”

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has an­gri­ly de­nied that T&T has any in­ten­tions of al­low­ing US troops to set up base here to re­spond in case of in­sta­bil­i­ty in neigh­bour­ing Venezuela, as the Unit­ed States’ gov­ern­ment has stepped up pres­sure against Venezuela.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is de­fend­ing Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert amidst calls for his res­ig­na­tion from the Op­po­si­tion, for al­leged­ly at­tempt­ing to mis­lead the pub­lic by un­der­stat­ing the cost over­runs for the ANR Robin­son Air­port ex­pan­sion project.

The hor­rif­ic crash in Cou­va that claimed the lives of two se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cers yes­ter­day pushed road fa­tal­i­ties for this year to 115.

With 18 days re­main­ing in the year, road fa­tal­i­ties stand at 115— a 21 per cent in­crease com­pared to the 95 deaths for the same pe­ri­od in 2023.

Po­lice have de­tained a woman for al­leged­ly lock­ing her two young sons in a dog ken­nel at their home.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has al­leged “col­lu­sion” be­tween the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) and the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), crit­i­cis­ing the EBC’s fail­ure to up­date the vot­er list across all 41 con­stituen­cies through its na­tion­al field ver­i­fi­ca­tion ex­er­cise.

Cab­i­net has ap­proved an in­crease in fund­ing for un­spon­sored steel­bands and steel­pan play­ers. 

Al­though ven­dors op­er­at­ing along Char­lotte Street, Port-of-Spain, wel­comed the ad­di­tion­al days to ply their trade dur­ing the run-up to Christ­mas - a few of them yes­ter­day ex­pressed reser­va­tions as they claimed the stag­gered days would cost them more.

An is­sue at the T&T Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC)’s Scar­bor­ough Sub­sta­tion led to an is­land­wide pow­er out­age in To­ba­go.

Open Schol­ar­ship win­ner Au­ro­ra Rack­al once dread­ed school so much that, as a child, she would cry, throw up, and plead with her par­ents to keep her at home.