Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has con­grat­u­lat­ed Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Chavez Au­gus­tine and the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty on their vic­to­ry in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tion held yes­ter­day.

Op­po­si­tion Leader and Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment po­lit­i­cal leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les last night con­grat­u­lat­ed the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty on se­cur­ing a sec­ond con­sec­u­tive term in of­fice fol­low­ing the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tions.

Far­ley Au­gus­tine’s prophe­cy was ful­filled last night, as a “Blue” To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) “Wave” yes­ter­day washed the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) com­plete­ly out of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA).

The To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty’s (TPP) 15-0 sweep of yes­ter­day’s To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tion is the third time in the his­to­ry of T&T that an elec­tion has end­ed in a clean sweep.

Pro­fes­sor Hamid Ghany has de­scribed the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty’s (TPP) To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) land­slide as an­oth­er ma­jor set­back for the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), call­ing for se­ri­ous re­flec­tion and a new ap­proach to po­lit­i­cal en­gage­ment.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les says the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) plan is to “put To­ba­go first again.”

As To­ba­go heads in­to an­oth­er elec­tion cy­cle, econ­o­mist Dr Vanus James has is­sued a stark warn­ing: with­out fun­da­men­tal changes to how the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) and cen­tral gov­ern­ment ap­proach de­vel­op­ment, the is­land risks re­main­ing un­der­de­vel­oped in­def­i­nite­ly.

Elec­tion Day in To­ba­go con­clud­ed peace­ful­ly yes­ter­day, with vot­ers and can­di­dates across the is­land de­scrib­ing the process as smooth and or­der­ly, de­spite a tense cam­paign pe­ri­od.

Even be­fore last year’s I Am Woman con­cert, so­ca artiste Patrice Roberts felt it was time to take her an­nu­al show in a new di­rec­tion, al­though she hadn’t yet fig­ured out how.

From Cou­va in cen­tral Trinidad, Pe­nal in the South and San­ta Flo­ra in the South-West, mo­torists con­verged at the Li­cens­ing Of­fice in San Fer­nan­do on Sun­day af­ter­noon, drawn by ur­gency and fear of mount­ing penal­ties. By then, the line had al­ready stretched near­ly 600 me­tres, crawl­ing from Princess Mar­garet Street to the Bal­isi­er Av­enue com­pound.

While mo­torists in South Trinidad faced long lines at the Li­cens­ing Of­fice yes­ter­day, the Port-of-Spain branch was less chaot­ic.

A La Ro­maine plumber was left sift­ing through the ru­ins of his home on Sun­day af­ter a fire re­duced the struc­ture to rub­ble, while res­i­dents turned their anger on a Venezue­lan mi­grant woman they be­lieved was re­spon­si­ble, drag­ging and beat­ing her in the street.