In a state­ment is­sued by its For­eign Min­istry yes­ter­day, the Venezue­lan Gov­ern­ment cel­e­brat­ed the vic­to­ry of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) and con­grat­u­lat­ed Prime Min­is­ter-elect Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) stal­wart Fer­die Fer­reira has warned that the par­ty’s great­est mis­take was pan­ick­ing and se­lect­ing the wrong leader fol­low­ing its crush­ing 26-13 de­feat in Mon­day’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) To­ba­go Coun­cil po­lit­i­cal leader An­cil Den­nis says he will not re­sign, even as oth­er par­ty of­fi­cials have stepped down fol­low­ing the par­ty’s heavy de­feat in Mon­day’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar will be sworn in as T&T’s ninth Prime Min­is­ter at 4 pm to­day at Pres­i­dent’s House, St Ann’s.

To­ba­go is brim­ming with op­ti­mism fol­low­ing a ma­jor po­lit­i­cal shift at the na­tion­al lev­el. With the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress de­thron­ing the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment and new­com­er the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty cap­tur­ing both of the is­land’s seats, hopes are high for mean­ing­ful change.

Re­sults in the re­count of three seats, re­quest­ed by the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) are ex­pect­ed to be com­plet­ed lat­er this week. 

Trade union lead­ers have de­scribed the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ (UNC) Gen­er­al Elec­tion vic­to­ry as a “new day” for work­ers. How­ev­er, they are al­so mak­ing it clear the time for words has passed and ac­tion must be­gin im­me­di­ate­ly.

The Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) says it “cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly de­nies re­cent al­le­ga­tions sug­gest­ing that doc­u­ments and files re­lat­ed to the cor­po­ra­tion’s op­er­a­tions were shred­ded or de­stroyed.” 

Sin­gle Moth­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (SMATT) pres­i­dent Sher­maine Wick­ham-Howe is ask­ing in­com­ing prime min­is­ter, Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, not to re­move sin­gle moth­ers em­ployed with the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (Cepep) and the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP).

Tunapuna con­stituents said high crime and a de­sire for change in rep­re­sen­ta­tion led to for­mer MP Es­mond Forde’s elec­tion de­feat.

Three men, in­clud­ing a teenag­er, were robbed at gun­point on Tues­day night, af­ter the dri­ver of the car in which they were trav­el­ling stopped at Movi­eTowne, Port-of-Spain.

A San Juan man will have to wait sev­er­al months to learn the fate of his law­suit over be­ing de­tained by the po­lice for a week as part of a probe in­to an al­leged plot to dis­rupt Car­ni­val cel­e­bra­tions in 2018.