De­feat­ed To­ba­go MPs Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis and Ayan­na Web­ster-Roy have thanked To­ba­go fol­low­ing the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty’s his­toric sweep in Mon­day’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion, of­fer­ing emo­tion­al mes­sages of grat­i­tude and re­flec­tion.

There are no of­fi­cial can­di­dates for the pa­pa­cy, but some car­di­nals are con­sid­ered “pa­pa­bile,” or pos­sess­ing the char­ac­ter­is­tics nec­es­sary to be­come pope. Af­ter St. John Paul II broke the cen­turies-long Ital­ian hold on the pa­pa­cy in 1978, the field of con­tenders has broad­ened con­sid­er­ably.

One man was ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with mul­ti­ple of­fences, while a mag­a­zine and quan­ti­ties of nar­cotics were seized in the North East­ern and Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sions yes­ter­day.

Con­fir­ma­tion has come from the Of­fice of the Pres­i­dent that Her Ex­cel­len­cy Chris­tine Car­la Kan­ga­loo, Pres­i­dent of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go, will of­fi­cial­ly swear in Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar as Prime Min­is­ter on Thurs­day, May 1, 2025, at 4:00 pm.

Ukraine is ready to sign an agree­ment that would give the U.S. ac­cess to its valu­able rare min­er­als in the hopes of en­sur­ing con­tin­ued Amer­i­can sup­port for Kyiv in its grind­ing war with Rus­sia, se­nior Ukrain­ian of­fi­cials said Wednes­day.

A 25-year-old man, Nyrell Ho­sein, has been charged with the mur­der of Nicholas David Fields, which oc­curred on Feb­ru­ary 24.

The To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion has ex­tend­ed con­grat­u­la­tions to Prime Min­is­ter-elect Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar on her vic­to­ry at the polls, ex­press­ing op­ti­mism for the in­com­ing lead­er­ship.

Dr Kei­th Row­ley has an­nounced his plans to for­mal­ly re­sign as Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), ef­fec­tive Thurs­day, May 1, 2025.

Pre­lim­i­nary re­sults re­leased by the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) from Mon­day’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion show the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) se­cur­ing 26 seats, the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) win­ning 13, and the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty tak­ing two.

The Sanatan Dhar­ma Ma­ha Sab­ha (SDMS) says it will have a cor­dial re­la­tion­ship with the new­ly elect­ed Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) gov­ern­ment.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is ex­pect­ed to be sworn in as Trinidad and To­ba­go’s ninth prime min­is­ter by to­mor­row, ac­cord­ing to plans so far, say UNC of­fi­cials.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has com­mend­ed the pub­lic for its co­op­er­a­tion and ad­her­ence to the rule of law dur­ing Mon­day’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion.