To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Deputy Chief Sec­re­tary Dr Faith Breb­nor has suc­ceed­ed in her le­gal bat­tle to chal­lenge a search war­rant for her home, which was ob­tained by the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) as part of its al­leged fraud probe in­to her and oth­er THA mem­bers.

Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young says the re­turn of a Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) gov­ern­ment will see the de­liv­ery of a sub­stan­tial hous­ing pro­gramme for young peo­ple, in­volv­ing the dis­tri­b­u­tion of 3,000 lots for home con­struc­tion.

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) says if re­turned to of­fice, it will seek to dis­trib­ute 500 homes per week, as it called Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young’s pro­posed hous­ing pol­i­cy an out-of-touch fan­ta­sy. 

Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young says de­spite the re­vo­ca­tion of US Of­fice of For­eign As­sets Con­trol (OFAC) li­cences block­ing ex­plo­ration of the Drag­on and Cocuina-Man­akin gas fields, he has re­ceived a “com­mit­ment” from Venezuela.

Fol­low­ing the Unit­ed States’ re­vo­ca­tion of li­cences for T&T’s gas projects with Venezuela, David Lee, the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) shad­ow en­er­gy min­is­ter, has ac­knowl­edged the need for di­a­logue with US au­thor­i­ties be­fore pur­su­ing cross-bor­der en­er­gy agree­ments.

Venezue­lan Op­po­si­tion Leader María Co­ri­na Macha­do is cel­e­brat­ing the US gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to re­voke oil and gas com­pa­nies’ li­cences as part of the on­go­ing trade and eco­nom­ic war against the South Amer­i­can coun­try.

No apol­o­gy. That is the po­si­tion tak­en by Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­gard­ing At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Camille Robin­son-Reg­is’ call for an apol­o­gy on state­ments made by Per­sad-Bisses­sar about the AG’s cer­tifi­cate to prac­tice law and oth­er mat­ters.

Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil, An­cil Den­nis, be­lieves a leaked record­ing pur­port­ed to be of a con­ver­sa­tion be­tween Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine and UNC Po­lit­i­cal Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar con­firms his long-held sus­pi­cion of a de­lib­er­ate plot to de­stroy To­ba­go’s con­struc­tion sec­tor.

A Ste Madeleine cou­ple is blam­ing med­ical neg­li­gence for the death of their ba­by at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

There will be an “IMF Part 2” un­der a Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) gov­ern­ment, the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) Aranguez/St Joseph can­di­date Ter­rence Deyals­ingh warned on Tues­day night.

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.

While an of­fi­cial cal­cu­la­tion will be done in June this year, of­fi­cials from the Min­istry of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices are re­port­ing that the num­ber of home­less per­sons may have de­creased in re­cent years.