St Vin­cent and the Grenadines ap­peared set for a his­toric change in po­lit­i­cal lead­er­ship last night as pre­lim­i­nary re­sults showed the New De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty (NDP), led by God­win Fri­day, sweep­ing to a de­ci­sive vic­to­ry at the gen­er­al elec­tions, bring­ing to an end 25 con­sec­u­tive years of rule by the Uni­ty Labour Par­ty (ULP) un­der Dr Ralph Gon­salves.

Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo has called for sus­tained in­no­va­tion in the pub­lic ser­vice while em­pha­sis­ing the im­por­tance of ad­her­ing to es­tab­lished rules and con­ven­tions, as she ad­dressed the In­ter-Amer­i­can De­vel­op­ment Bank (IDB) PrAISE Awards for In­no­va­tion in Ser­vice Ex­cel­lence 2025 on Tues­day.

As Trinidad and To­ba­go edges clos­er to adopt­ing stand-your-ground leg­is­la­tion, de­bate is in­ten­si­fy­ing over how the law will be en­forced and whether race, polic­ing cul­ture, and ac­cess to firearms will shape its im­pact.

Po­lice ar­rest­ed a 26-year-old man from Rock­ley Vale, Scar­bor­ough, in con­nec­tion with the mur­der of an Amer­i­can tourist in Cas­tara on Wednes­day night, bring­ing To­ba­go’s mur­der toll to eight for the year.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine is now re­ly­ing on the Prime Min­is­ter for the ex­pla­na­tion be­hind this week’s unan­nounced US mil­i­tary land­ing in To­ba­go—a day af­ter say­ing he knew noth­ing about it.

The In­ter­na­tion­al Air Trans­port As­so­ci­a­tion (IA­TA) is call­ing on Venezuela to re­verse its de­ci­sion to ban six in­ter­na­tion­al air­lines from op­er­at­ing to/from the coun­try.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les will this af­ter­noon pi­lot a mo­tion for de­bate in Par­lia­ment con­demn­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s state­ments on the T&T/Venezuela is­sue and call­ing up­on the Gov­ern­ment to reaf­firm this coun­try’s com­mit­ment to Cari­com and to the up­hold­ing of in­ter­na­tion­al law.

As she, her min­is­ters, and coun­cil­lors joined in prayer for the fam­i­ly of Coun­cil­lor Romona Vic­tor yes­ter­day, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar reaf­firmed her com­mit­ment to pro­tect­ing fam­i­lies in cri­sis.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the shoot­ing death of Va­len­cia gar­den­er An­tho­ny Sankar whose body was found with gun­shot wounds to the face and tor­so on Wednes­day evening.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a re­port of lar­ce­ny af­ter a Diego Mar­tin woman re­port­ed her boyfriend with­drew $5,000 in cash from her ac­count, with­out her per­mis­sion fol­low­ing an ar­gu­ment.

Res­i­dents of east Port-of-Spain say a trou­bling trend of po­lice of­fi­cers al­leged­ly drop­ping de­tainees in “hos­tile” neigh­bour­hoods is putting lives at risk, and are call­ing on the lead­er­ship of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) to take ac­tion against those in­volved.

Po­lit­i­cal and so­cial ac­tivist Ravi Bal­go­b­in Ma­haraj has failed in his bid to chal­lenge the de­ci­sion of for­mer House Speak­er Bridgid An­nisette-George to de­ny him per­mis­sion to re­spond to al­leged­ly defam­a­to­ry com­ments made about him in Par­lia­ment.