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.

It was a smooth process yes­ter­day for can­di­dates fil­ing their gen­er­al elec­tion nom­i­na­tion pa­pers for Cu­mu­to/Man­zanil­la and To­co/San­gre Grande yes­ter­day as they all re­port­ed no is­sues on the day.

Elec­tion can­di­dates for the Port-of-Spain South con­stituen­cy all be­lieve they have what it takes to un­seat in­cum­bent Kei­th Scot­land.

The Law As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (LATT) has sought in­de­pen­dent ad­vice on al­le­ga­tions over the con­duct of Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie and for­mer chief mag­is­trate and now High Court Judge Mar­cia Ay­ers-Cae­sar in a case re­lat­ed to her short-lived ju­di­cial ap­point­ment in 2017.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s can­di­date for La Hor­quet­ta/Tal­paro Fos­ter Cum­mings is call­ing for a clean elec­tion cam­paign af­ter one of his bill­boards in La Hor­quet­ta was de­stroyed.

Two Venezue­lan men were killed by South­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force of­fi­cers yes­ter­day, af­ter they al­leged­ly con­front­ed law­men with a gun and a Chi­nese chop­per dur­ing an al­leged weapons deal.

A teenag­er, who ad­mit­ted to killing a home­less man af­ter he (the man) at­tacked him and his friend al­most five years ago, is set to be re­leased in a few months.

The body of Lance Cor­po­ral Kei­th Pear­son sur­faced at Mara­cas Beach yes­ter­day, days af­ter he dis­ap­peared be­neath the wa­ter whilst swim­ming.

Two days af­ter a loaded pis­tol was dis­cov­ered among the prison pop­u­la­tion at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison (MSP), Gold­en Grove Road, Arou­ca, in­ten­si­fied se­cu­ri­ty search­es were car­ried out at the Port-of-Spain Prison yes­ter­day.

De­spite his in­ex­pe­ri­ence in the po­lit­i­cal are­na, Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment can­di­date for Ca­roni Cen­tral Adam Ho­sein is con­fi­dent that he can wres­tle away the seat from the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress.

The mur­der toll in­creased yes­ter­day af­ter the body of an East In­di­an man was found dumped at the side of the road in Waller­field yes­ter­day.

A fire broke out on Fri­day at the In­ter­na­tion­al Wa­ter­front Cen­tre, Tow­er C, on Wright­son Road, Port-of-Spain dur­ing sched­uled main­te­nance works, prompt­ing a swift re­sponse from emer­gency per­son­nel and the ac­ti­va­tion of safe­ty pro­to­cols.