The As­sem­bly of South­ern Lawyers (ASL) is call­ing on Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie to com­mis­sion an in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to what they de­scribed as ad­min­is­tra­tive fail­ures and de­lays plagu­ing the Fam­i­ly Courts, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the op­er­a­tions of the Mas­ters of the Court.

For the first time in his­to­ry, some res­i­dents of Em­ba­cadere, once con­sid­ered a strong Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment ter­ri­to­ry, have switched sides say­ing they have found new hope in the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress.

Prime Min­is­ter-elect Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has praised the re­silien­cy of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) on the 36th an­niver­sary of the par­ty's found­ing.

Ro­han Sinanan has of­fi­cial­ly ten­dered his res­ig­na­tion as Deputy Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), ef­fec­tive May 1, 2025.

One man was ar­rest­ed and a firearm with am­mu­ni­tion seized dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tion in the cen­tral di­vi­sion on Mon­day.

A be­hav­iour­al poll­ster says the UNC's iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of three main pil­lars of fo­cus for their cam­paign strat­e­gy was key to their elec­tion suc­cess.

Po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tist Dr Bish­nu Ra­goonath says PNM sup­port­ers de­cid­ed to pun­ish the par­ty for how it se­lect­ed Stu­art Young as Prime Min­is­ter af­ter the res­ig­na­tion of Dr Kei­th Row­ley.

The Cuban gov­ern­ment has con­grat­u­lat­ed Prime Min­is­ter-elect Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar. In a con­grat­u­la­to­ry post so­cial me­dia plat­form X (for­mer­ly Twit­ter), Pres­i­dent of Cu­ba, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, wrote, “We ex­press the will to #Cu­ba to con­tin­ue strength­en­ing bi­lat­er­al re­la­tions and co­op­er­a­tion with Trinidad and To­ba­go.”

A re­gion­al pol­i­cy frame­work on the en­vi­ron­ment, which CARI­COM Min­is­ters re­spon­si­ble for the en­vi­ron­ment have ap­proved was launched on Tues­day in An­tigua and Bar­bu­da.

The Unit­ed Na­tions Res­i­dent Co­or­di­na­tor and the Unit­ed Na­tions Coun­try Team in Trinidad and To­ba­go have con­grat­u­lat­ed Prime Min­is­ter-elect Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

The Stu­dent Pro­fes­sion­al Or­gan­i­sa­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (SPOTT) is set to host a de­vel­op­men­tal event, “Pre­sent­ing Your­self to the World” on May 17 at the Bel­mont Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre.

Hours af­ter PNM po­lit­i­cal leader Dr Kei­th Row­ley re­signed, chair­man of the par­ty, Stu­art Young al­so ten­dered his res­ig­na­tion.