IDA Po­lit­i­cal Leader Denise Tsoiafatt-An­gus is call­ing on To­bag­o­ni­ans to not let the al­leged sec­ond “au­dio­gate” record­ing in­volv­ing Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine and Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar fade away and die a nat­ur­al death—es­pe­cial­ly since Au­gus­tine has not clear­ly de­nied that the meet­ing and con­ver­sa­tion ever took place.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Fyz­abad can­di­date Dave Tan­coo has again promised there will be no de­val­u­a­tion un­der a UNC gov­ern­ment and that the par­ty has a plan for Ce­dros/Moru­ga area which would tap in­to op­por­tu­ni­ties in near­by Guyana and Suri­name.

Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) leader Gary Grif­fith says he has proof that vot­ers in the mar­gin­al San Fer­nan­do West are be­ing bribed with cash and ap­pli­ances, as his po­lit­i­cal op­po­nents at­tempt to sway votes ahead of the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

New­ly ap­point­ed To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion (THAT) pres­i­dent Regi­nald Mac Lean is pre­dict­ing a dev­as­tat­ing East­er sea­son for hote­liers on the is­land, with oc­cu­pan­cy strug­gling to reach 50 per cent—the low­est it has been in years.

Pa­tri­ot­ic Front (PF) leader Mick­ela Pan­day is promis­ing to raise the min­i­mum wage if elect­ed to lead the coun­try.

Dur­ing the cur­rent cut and thrust of po­lit­i­cal de­bates dur­ing the on­go­ing Gen­er­al Elec­tion bat­tle, politi­cians have been de­liv­er­ing some gems and jabs on the hus­tings. To­day, we con­tin­ue to de­liv­er some of the state­ments that may have been missed.

Long-threat­ened tar­iffs from U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump have plunged the coun­try in­to trade wars abroad — all while on-again, off-again new levies con­tin­ue to es­ca­late un­cer­tain­ty.

Near­ly 18,000 stu­dents across Trinidad and To­ba­go sat the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) on Thurs­day with­out any re­port­ed in­ci­dents, ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion.

To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion’s new­ly ap­point­ed pres­i­dent, Regi­nald Mac Lean, is pre­dict­ing an ex­treme­ly dev­as­tat­ing East­er sea­son for hote­liers on the is­land, with oc­cu­pan­cy strug­gling to reach 50 per­cent, the low­est it has been in years.

In­no­v­a­tive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Al­liance po­lit­i­cal leader Denise Tsoiafatt-An­gus has called on To­bag­o­ni­ans not to let the al­leged sec­ond “au­dio gate” in­volv­ing Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine and Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar fade away and die a nat­ur­al death—es­pe­cial­ly since Au­gus­tine has not clear­ly de­nied that the meet­ing and con­ver­sa­tion ever took place.

The Di­vi­sion of Ed­u­ca­tion, Re­search and Tech­nol­o­gy is dis­miss­ing claims that SEA ex­ams in To­ba­go were de­layed due to miss­ing clocks.

The Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) has been forced to re­ject a for­mer pre­sid­ing of­fi­cer from re­turn­ing to du­ty for the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, af­ter a video sur­faced with the woman en­dors­ing the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM).