Van­cou­ver po­lice ruled out ter­ror­ism in a car ram­ming at­tack that killed 11 peo­ple at a Fil­ipino her­itage fes­ti­val in the Cana­di­an city, say­ing the sus­pect has a his­to­ry of men­tal health is­sues.

One man was ar­rest­ed and two firearms, sev­er­al rounds of am­mu­ni­tion, and quan­ti­ties of nar­cotics were seized dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers of the In­ter-Agency Task Force (IATF) and the Guard and Emer­gency Branch (GEB) on Sat­ur­day.

The Guyana gov­ern­ment has giv­en the fam­i­ly of the mur­dered 11-year Adri­an­na Younge that it is pro­vid­ing full sup­port in their pur­suit of truth and jus­tice.

As the bat­tle cries and ral­ly­ing calls echoed Sat­ur­day from the var­i­ous po­lit­i­cal plat­forms and mo­tor­cades, next comes to­day's last-minute cam­paign­ing in cru­cial pock­ets and re­li­gious ser­vices and prayer by var­i­ous con­stituen­cies.

The French Clas­si­cal Mu­sic Con­cert will be held on Wednes­day at 6 pm at the Cen­tral Bank Au­di­to­ri­um, Port-of-Spain. The show is or­gan­ised by the French Em­bassy of Trinidad and To­ba­go in part­ner­ship with the Al­liance Française.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has re­spond­ed to con­cerns about her health and age as she ad­dressed a sea of sup­port­ers at their Code Yel­low ral­ly in Aranguez yes­ter­day. Per­sad-Bisses­sar em­pha­sised her un­wa­ver­ing ded­i­ca­tion to the na­tion and her abil­i­ty to lead.

Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young is promis­ing eco­nom­ic trans­for­ma­tion, no de­val­u­a­tion of the TT dol­lar and a brighter fu­ture for T&T with his vi­sion of a “Bold New Chap­ter”, as he warned Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) sup­port­ers not to vote for Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and the “crooked UNC ca­bal”.

Big num­bers on both sides, hot sun match­ing the po­lit­i­cal tem­po de­gree for de­gree–and some sur­pris­es for good mea­sure.

The po­lit­i­cal land­scape of Trinidad and To­ba­go wit­nessed a shift ahead of to­mor­row’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion, as for­mer Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Tabaquite MP, Ani­ta Haynes-Al­leyne, joined the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM).

For­mer deputy po­lit­i­cal leader of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Nafeesa Mo­hammed, who first backed the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) in 2020 af­ter decades in the PNM, is dou­bling down ahead of to­mor­row’s gen­er­al elec­tion—de­clar­ing she will not vote for the par­ty due to its record of weak gov­er­nance.

To­ba­go is in the spot­light for to­mor­row’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion, draw­ing sig­nif­i­cant na­tion­al at­ten­tion. While the is­land has just two seats–To­ba­go East and To­ba­go West–in the 41-mem­ber Par­lia­ment, there has been an in­crease in the num­ber of con­tenders vy­ing to rep­re­sent the is­land.

St Joseph’s Con­vent, Port-of-Spain, has emerged vic­to­ri­ous in the In­ter­na­tion­al Repa­ra­tions De­bate Com­pe­ti­tion, de­feat­ing Claren­don Col­lege of Ja­maica in the fi­nals held on Fri­day at the Cen­tre for Repa­ra­tions Re­search at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, Mona Cam­pus. The Na­tion­al Com­mit­tee on Repa­ra­tions (NCR) ex­tend­ed its heart­felt con­grat­u­la­tions to the team for their ex­cep­tion­al achieve­ment.