The Epis­co­pal Con­fer­ence of Haiti (CEH) has de­scribed as a “heinous crime” the mur­der of two nuns when an armed gang ran ri­ot near Hait­ian cap­i­tal Port au Prince on Mon­day.

The Min­istry of Health has con­firmed two ad­di­tion­al cas­es of malar­ia in the same ge­o­graph­ic lo­ca­tion in South Trinidad where five cas­es were pre­vi­ous­ly re­port­ed. This brings the to­tal num­ber of con­firmed malar­ia cas­es for 2025 to sev­en.

One per­son has been stabbed and killed at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison in Arou­ca as sus­pect­ed gang vi­o­lence broke out with­in prison walls.

It’s of­fi­cial: a to­tal of 161 can­di­dates - and 17 po­lit­i­cal par­ties - will be con­test­ing the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Pa­tri­ot­ic Front leader Mick­ela Pan­day is call­ing for an over­haul of the ex­ist­ing process for fil­ing nom­i­na­tion pa­pers, de­scrib­ing it as “ar­cha­ic.”

Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young yes­ter­day de­fend­ed Gov­ern­ment’s $1 mil­lion ex-gra­tia pay­ment to each of the vic­tims of the Paria Fu­el div­ing tragedy, in the face of con­dem­na­tion from oth­er po­lit­i­cal par­ties.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has dis­missed Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young’s claims that the Trinidad and To­ba­go dol­lar will be de­val­ued un­der her lead­er­ship, say­ing her ad­min­is­tra­tion will find mon­ey through pru­dent spend­ing, eco­nom­ic di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion and job cre­ation to ex­e­cute plans.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) can­di­date for Aranguez/St Joseph is fac­ing crit­i­cism from his com­peti­tors over his cel­e­bra­to­ry style of fil­ing his nom­i­na­tion pa­pers with ac­cu­sa­tions that he dis­turbed schools in the area, where pupils are prepar­ing for the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am­i­na­tions. 

Clash­es marred the nom­i­na­tion day process in To­ba­go as po­lit­i­cal can­di­dates squared off, forc­ing po­lice to call in re­in­force­ments.

Even as Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) and Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) sup­port­ers clashed in a bat­tle of al­le­giance along the South­ern Main Road in Point Fortin, both can­di­dates—Kennedy Richards Jr and Ernesto Ke­sar—voiced un­wa­ver­ing con­fi­dence in their bid to rep­re­sent the once oil-rich con­stituen­cy fol­low­ing the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

For­mer Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) mem­ber and at­tor­ney Lar­ry Lal­la chant­ed, “Great is the PNM,” as he ac­com­pa­nied the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) can­di­date for Ch­agua­nas East, Richie Sookhai, who filed his Gen­er­al Elec­tion nom­i­na­tion pa­pers yes­ter­day.

There was a Car­ni­val-like at­mos­phere in Bel­mont yes­ter­day, as both Port-of-Spain North/St Ann's West can­di­date Stu­art Young and Pro­gres­sive Em­pow­er­ment Par­ty (PEP) leader Phillip Ed­ward Alexan­der made their way to Bel­mont Sec­ondary School to file their nom­i­na­tion pa­pers.