Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) leader Wat­son Duke has cau­tioned prime min­is­ter-des­ig­nate Stu­art Young not to get ahead of him­self, re­mind­ing him that he has yet to be of­fi­cial­ly ap­point­ed.

As Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley pre­pares to leave of­fice, his fi­nal acts are un­der in­tense pub­lic scruti­ny. From ma­jor in­fra­struc­ture projects to leg­isla­tive de­ci­sions, his ad­min­is­tra­tion is mark­ing the “prac­ti­cal com­ple­tion” of key ini­tia­tives across var­i­ous sec­tors.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is switch­ing things up when it comes to the usu­al elec­tion time­line, hav­ing se­lect­ed all 41 prospec­tive can­di­dates to con­test the gen­er­al elec­tion be­fore the elec­tion date has even been an­nounced.

Af­ter protest ac­tion that threat­ened to dis­rupt a cam­pus coun­cil meet­ing yes­ter­day, ad­min­is­tra­tive staff and dai­ly paid work­ers at the Uni­ver­si­ty of The West In­dies (UWI) St Au­gus­tine Cam­pus have fi­nal­ly got­ten a long-await­ed meet­ing with man­age­ment to dis­cuss wage ne­go­ti­a­tions.

Work­ers of Nat­pet In­vest­ments Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed, a sub­sidiary of the Na­tion­al Pe­tro­le­um Mar­ket­ing Com­pa­ny (NPMC), are call­ing on Min­is­ter of Fi­nance Colm Im­bert and Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) Dr Daryl Din­di­al to stop in­ter­fer­ing with their ne­go­ti­a­tions with the com­pa­ny.

Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Fe­l­isha Thomas says the first or­der of busi­ness af­ter her vic­to­ry will be to oust the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) from of­fice.

A 47-year-old woman from La Ro­main, whose abu­sive hus­band was killed by her co-work­er af­ter she told him (the co-work­er) of her plight, has been freed.

A High Court Judge has or­dered over $60,000 in com­pen­sa­tion for a 48-year-old woman, who, along with her friends, was tor­tured by a group of sol­diers and Coast Guard of­fi­cers dur­ing the last State of Emer­gency (SoE) in 2011. 

Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh has dis­missed al­le­ga­tions from Sen­a­tor Anil Roberts that the Cen­tral Block at the Port-of-Spain Hos­pi­tal is on­ly 85 per cent com­plete.

Rep­re­sen­ta­tives of a La Brea youth-based non-prof­it or­gan­i­sa­tion are re­quest­ing a meet­ing with the Min­istry of Tourism, Arts and Cul­ture af­ter they were evict­ed from the La Brea Pitch Lake Fa­cil­i­ty.

The step­fa­ther of nine-year-old Aneil­ia But­ler, who died in a fire in 2022, has been charged with her mur­der.

A 61-year-old Ch­agua­nas man has been charged with var­i­ous of­fences, in­clud­ing mur­der and wound­ing, af­ter a shoot­ing in St James on Car­ni­val Tues­day af­ter­noon.