Two women have been freed of fraud charges al­leg­ing that they used forged job let­ters in a bid to ob­tain Unit­ed States (US) visas.

The Court of Ap­peal will have to weigh in on a move by the Teach­ing Ser­vice Com­mis­sion (TSC) to in­tro­duce a new pro­ce­dure for the re­cruit­ment of teach­ers for de­nom­i­na­tion­al pri­ma­ry schools. 

The stages are be­ing set up at Ed­die Hart Ground in Tacarigua and the Aranguez Sa­van­nah in San Juan, trans­port for thou­sands is be­ing arranged all around, plan­ning meet­ings are be­gin­ning pre-dawn - and jer­seys of cer­tain colours are be­ing care­ful­ly pre­pared for to­mor­row's fi­nal ral­lies and events by po­lit­i­cal par­ties, on the cusp to Mon­day's Gen­er­al Elec­tion. Here's more from the plat­form in case you missed it:

With just days to go be­fore Trinidad and To­ba­go's Gen­er­al Elec­tion on Mon­day, the lat­est poll con­duct­ed by the North Amer­i­can Caribbean Teach­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (NAC­TA) re­veals a fierce­ly con­test­ed race, with no ma­jor par­ty—nei­ther the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) nor the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC)—hold­ing a de­ci­sive lead in sev­er­al crit­i­cal swing con­stituen­cies.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) deputy po­lit­i­cal leader David Lee has de­clared him­self “the re­al Chi­nee”, de­scrib­ing Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young’s po­lit­i­cal record as a fail­ure, just days be­fore Mon­day’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

The Dou­ble Day Ho­tel on the Tuschen Pub­lic Road, East Bank, Es­se­qui­bo, Guyana was set on fire Thurs­day morn­ing by irate vil­lagers af­ter the body of miss­ing 11-year-old girl, Adri­an­na Younge, was found in the pool.

Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump on Thurs­day of­fered rare crit­i­cism of Vladimir Putin, urg­ing the Russ­ian leader to “STOP!” af­ter a dead­ly bar­rage of at­tacks on Kyiv, Ukraine’s cap­i­tal.

The body of the 11-year-old girl, Adri­an­na Younge, who was al­leged­ly ab­duct­ed and tak­en in­to the Dou­ble Day Ho­tel, Tuschen, East Bank Es­se­qui­bo, was found Thurs­day morn­ing in a pool at the ho­tel, in­ten­si­fy­ing ten­sion among fam­i­ly mem­bers and oth­er per­sons.

The po­lit­i­cal leader of the Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) is de­fend­ing the im­par­tial­i­ty of the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) amid claims of “po­lit­i­cal bias” by the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC).

Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young is giv­ing as­sur­ances of job safe­ty for work­ers at the state-run Wa­ter and Sewage Au­thor­i­ty, as well as those em­ployed with the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion.

A warn­ing from the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice that vot­er in­tim­i­da­tion and thug­gery on elec­tion day are ar­restable of­fences and will not be tol­er­at­ed.

Trinidad and To­ba­go must ur­gent­ly con­front the dan­gers chil­dren face on­line, ex­perts said dur­ing a na­tion­al fo­rum on cy­ber-groom­ing host­ed by the Gen­der and Child Af­fairs Di­vi­sion.