The Gov­ern­ment is be­ing urged to em­bark on an in­for­ma­tion cam­paign to ad­vise T&T na­tion­als about the im­pact of the Unit­ed States tar­iffs.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, sur­round­ed by thou­sands of sup­port­ers and new faces from sev­er­al fresh can­di­dates on her slate, proud­ly de­clared that af­ter 15 years, she has suc­cess­ful­ly “purged” her par­ty.

Se­nior Coun­sel Lar­ry Lal­la made his de­but on a Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) plat­form Sat­ur­day night, ex­press­ing con­cern about Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

With 161 can­di­dates of­fi­cial­ly nom­i­nat­ed for the up­com­ing Gen­er­al Elec­tions on April 28, 2025, the Coun­cil for Re­spon­si­ble Po­lit­i­cal Be­hav­iour is call­ing on all po­lit­i­cal par­ties, can­di­dates, and sup­port­ers to ad­here to the prin­ci­ples out­lined in the Code of Eth­i­cal Po­lit­i­cal Con­duct.

Two men who are al­leged mem­bers of “Tren De Aragua”, a Latin Amer­i­can gang be­lieved to be op­er­at­ing and sell­ing il­le­gal firearms in Trinidad and To­ba­go have been shot and killed by po­lice in Table­land.

The Epis­co­pal Con­fer­ence of Haiti (CEH) has de­scribed as a “heinous crime” the mur­der of two nuns when an armed gang ran ri­ot near Hait­ian cap­i­tal Port au Prince on Mon­day.

The Min­istry of Health has con­firmed two ad­di­tion­al cas­es of malar­ia in the same ge­o­graph­ic lo­ca­tion in South Trinidad where five cas­es were pre­vi­ous­ly re­port­ed. This brings the to­tal num­ber of con­firmed malar­ia cas­es for 2025 to sev­en.

One per­son has been stabbed and killed at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison in Arou­ca as sus­pect­ed gang vi­o­lence broke out with­in prison walls.

It’s of­fi­cial: a to­tal of 161 can­di­dates - and 17 po­lit­i­cal par­ties - will be con­test­ing the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Pa­tri­ot­ic Front leader Mick­ela Pan­day is call­ing for an over­haul of the ex­ist­ing process for fil­ing nom­i­na­tion pa­pers, de­scrib­ing it as “ar­cha­ic.”

Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young yes­ter­day de­fend­ed Gov­ern­ment’s $1 mil­lion ex-gra­tia pay­ment to each of the vic­tims of the Paria Fu­el div­ing tragedy, in the face of con­dem­na­tion from oth­er po­lit­i­cal par­ties.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has dis­missed Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young’s claims that the Trinidad and To­ba­go dol­lar will be de­val­ued un­der her lead­er­ship, say­ing her ad­min­is­tra­tion will find mon­ey through pru­dent spend­ing, eco­nom­ic di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion and job cre­ation to ex­e­cute plans.