The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) is promis­ing to im­ple­ment a com­pre­hen­sive frame­work to reg­u­late large-scale cul­ti­va­tion, agro-pro­cess­ing, and ex­port of cannabis, which the par­ty says is es­sen­tial to un­lock­ing the in­dus­try’s full eco­nom­ic po­ten­tial.

Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les is claim­ing that should an­oth­er po­lit­i­cal par­ty as­sume of­fice af­ter the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, in­ter­na­tion­al as­sis­tance in treat­ing crime may no longer be forth­com­ing.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Postal Work­ers Union (TTP­WU) has raised se­ri­ous alarm over the treat­ment of TTPost work­ers, warn­ing that sys­temic un­der­staffing and op­er­a­tional strain could jeop­ar­dise the time­ly de­liv­ery of poll cards to thou­sands of cit­i­zens ahead of the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

With all eyes on sev­er­al mar­gin­al seats in the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed Barataria/San Juan—a seat the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) won by 1,060 votes in the 2020 Gen­er­al Elec­tion—to get the views of con­stituents this time around.