Three prospec­tive Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) can­di­dates for Ari­ma joined to­geth­er to in­tro­duce them­selves to con­stituents yes­ter­day.  Nom­i­nees Dar­ron Daniel, Nigel Moses, and Crys­tal Ho­sein put their com­pet­i­tive na­ture aside to kick off the Op­po­si­tion par­ty’s cam­paign for next year’s gen­er­al elec­tion in the con­stituen­cy. 

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lysts have ex­pressed con­cern about the gov­ern­ment’s han­dling of salary ad­just­ments, high­light­ing the grow­ing dis­par­i­ty be­tween pub­lic of­fice­hold­ers and the work­ing class.

The first big snow­fall of the sea­son is blan­ket­ing towns along Lake Erie in up­state New York and north­west­ern Penn­syl­va­nia in the mid­dle of the hec­tic hol­i­day trav­el and shop­ping week­end, while numb­ing cold and heavy snow could per­sist in­to next week and cause haz­ards in the Great Lakes, Plains and Mid­west re­gions.

The M.V. Cabo Star will op­er­ate every day (in­clud­ing week­ends) at the Gov­ern­ment Ship­ping Ser­vice (G.S.S), Port of Spain Fer­ry Ter­mi­nal, un­til fur­ther no­tice, the Trinidad and To­ba­go In­ter-is­land Trans­porta­tion Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (TTIT) has con­firmed.

Suri­name’s Min­is­ter of For­eign Af­fairs, In­ter­na­tion­al Busi­ness and In­ter­na­tion­al Co­op­er­a­tion, Al­bert Ramdin, on Fri­day, sent a protest note to the gov­ern­ment of Guyana, fol­low­ing re­ports that the gov­ern­ment of the neigh­bour­ing coun­try wants to de­vel­op in the dis­put­ed bor­der area be­tween the two coun­tries.

The Haz­ardous Seas Alert, which was ac­ti­vat­ed on Thurs­day evening, re­mains at Yel­low Lev­el, ac­cord­ing to a re­vised ad­vi­so­ry is­sued on Sat­ur­day morn­ing by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS).

Guardian Me­dia has learnt that Siew Na­gas­sar, Rishi’s fa­ther, died on No­vem­ber 24. He was 82 years old.  It is un­der­stood fu­ner­al arrange­ments are still be­ing fi­nalised

One man has died, and three oth­ers are in­jured, fol­low­ing a shoot­ing at In­de­pen­dence Square, Port-of-Spain on Fri­day night.

Laven­tille West MP Fitzger­ald Hinds says he is mov­ing on af­ter 30 years of rep­re­sen­ta­tive ser­vice and pol­i­tics. He con­firmed his ex­it as an MP yes­ter­day in the Sen­ate, one day af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley re­vealed that Hinds had with­drawn his con­sent to be nom­i­nat­ed to con­test the seat again for the PNM.

No­table im­prove­ments in three key sub­jects were ob­served in stu­dents who scored be­low 50 per cent on the 2022 Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment ex­am­i­na­tion.

Hun­dreds of pupils of the Cunu­pia Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School marched along the South­ern Main Road yes­ter­day, unit­ed in con­demn­ing bul­ly­ing and vi­o­lence in all its forms. Clad in blue and white T-shirts with the words, “No Vi­o­lence! No Bul­ly­ing”, the pupils, along with their par­ents and guardians, proud­ly held aloft plac­ards with some that read, “Words hurt, choose them wise­ly” and “Bul­ly­ing is a choice, choose wise­ly.”

Par­ents of stu­dents at­tend­ing Bel­mont Sec­ondary School are ex­press­ing their dis­plea­sure with what they say are de­plorable con­di­tions at the in­sti­tu­tion.