The Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance’s (NTA) on­ly al­der­man is now with the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) and NTA po­lit­i­cal leader Gary Grif­fith is call­ing on Paul-Daniel Na­hous to do the “eth­i­cal” thing and re­sign from his po­si­tion in the Diego Mar­tin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion.

A sus­pect in the kid­nap­ping and mur­der of O’delle Lal­man-Bap­tiste has not yet been ar­rest­ed, even as rel­a­tives make fi­nal prepa­ra­tions for her fu­ner­al on Sat­ur­day.

With the 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tion just days away, the usu­al­ly serene con­stituen­cy of Ma­yaro braces it­self for a new be­gin­ning. Re­gard­less of the out­come, Ma­yaro will have a new par­lia­men­tary rep­re­sen­ta­tive.

Po­lit­i­cal par­ties are in a height­ened phase of Gen­er­al Elec­tion cam­paign­ing now, as­sess­ing lat­est num­bers, com­fort and cri­sis lev­els, tight­en­ing "ar­tillery," mu­sic trucks are do­ing the bat­tling in places and con­struc­tion is start­ing in the PNM and UNC stages at the Ed­die Hart Sa­van­nah and Aranguez Sa­van­nah grounds re­spec­tive­ly. It's the las lap. Here's some of what you may have missed on the plat­form:

Caribbean Air­lines has con­firmed that ne­go­ti­a­tions with the Trinidad and To­ba­go Air­line Pi­lots As­so­ci­a­tion (TTAL­PA) over the 2020–2023 Col­lec­tive Labour Agree­ment are pro­gress­ing steadi­ly.

The Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) has "un­equiv­o­cal­ly con­demned" a cir­cu­lat­ing pho­to which claims the Com­mis­sion’s Chief Elec­tion Of­fi­cer (CEO) and sev­er­al Re­turn­ing Of­fi­cers are af­fil­i­at­ed with a po­lit­i­cal par­ty.

Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young met with the Chief of Mis­sion of the CARI­COM Elec­tion Ob­ser­va­tion Mis­sion (CEOM), Ian Hugh­es, and oth­er mem­bers of the ob­serv­er team at the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre in St Ann’s on Wednes­day, five days ahead of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s gen­er­al elec­tion.

In this pho­to pro­vid­ed by the Ukrain­ian Emer­gency Ser­vice, res­cuers car­ry out bod­ies of pas­sen­gers af­ter a Russ­ian drone hit a pub­lic bus in Marhanets, Dnipropetro­vsk re­gion, Wednes­day, April 23, 2025. (Ukrain­ian Emer­gency Ser­vice via AP)

So­cial­ly dis­placed peo­ple be­tween the ages of 35 and 55 years in the Bor­ough of Ari­ma will soon be able to seek shel­ter at the new­ly opened Cara­po House Tran­si­tion­al Cen­tre, lo­cat­ed along the Ari­ma Main Road.

Brazil ‘s fed­er­al po­lice said Wednes­day they are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a scheme that di­vert­ed over 6 bil­lion reais (US$1.05 bil­lion) from pen­sions paid by the Na­tion­al So­cial Se­cu­ri­ty In­sti­tute.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Vish­nu Dhan­paul says a re-elect­ed PNM ad­min­is­tra­tion may in­crease the Se­nior Cit­i­zens' Grant once there is fis­cal space.

In line with the glob­al growth of the skin­care in­dus­try, AM­CO has of­fi­cial­ly launched its new Beau­ty Cor­ner.