The To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion (THAT) has writ­ten to Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young, Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine, and oth­er gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials, rais­ing an alarm over four ur­gent is­sues af­fect­ing the is­land’s tourism and hos­pi­tal­i­ty sec­tor.

A 48-year-old man, want­ed in the Unit­ed States for smug­gling over US$1 mil­lion in co­caine and hero­in in­to that coun­try, will re­main in T&T for al­most two months while he seeks to mount a fi­nal le­gal chal­lenge over his pro­posed ex­tra­di­tion.

To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) can­di­date for To­ba­go West Joel Mar­cus Samp­son says if elect­ed to Par­lia­ment, he will con­tin­ue the work he start­ed un­der the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly—es­pe­cial­ly in youth de­vel­op­ment, sports, and com­mu­ni­ty em­pow­er­ment.

In a bizarre in­ci­dent yes­ter­day, a man who was ar­rest­ed by po­lice smashed the win­dow of a po­lice ve­hi­cle with his head fol­low­ing a vi­o­lent fra­cas with of­fi­cers in Pe­nal and then pro­ceed­ed to chew the bro­ken glass.

Three years af­ter its doors were closed due to de­creas­ing crime in the polic­ing dis­trict, the San Rafael Po­lice Sta­tion was re­opened yes­ter­day.

A La Hor­quet­ta teen, who was as­pir­ing to be a na­tion­al foot­baller, was gunned down on Tues­day night, a short dis­tance from his home.

Dur­ing the cur­rent cut and thrust of po­lit­i­cal de­bates dur­ing the on­go­ing Gen­er­al Elec­tion bat­tle, politi­cians have been de­liv­er­ing some gems and jabs on the hus­tings. To­day, we con­tin­ue to de­liv­er some of the state­ments that may have been missed.

Less than two weeks be­fore the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, the in­cum­bent Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) has un­veiled its man­i­festo, promis­ing “a bold, new chap­ter” of na­tion­al trans­for­ma­tion if the par­ty is re-elect­ed in­to gov­ern­ment.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has con­firmed that the work­ers seen on a so­cial me­dia video re­mov­ing a Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress can­di­date’s ban­ner from a light pole in the Table­land/Moru­ga con­stituen­cy were act­ing on be­half of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC).

The Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) has dis­missed calls by the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) to re­move its re­turn­ing of­fi­cer for San Fer­nan­do East.

Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les is claim­ing that should an­oth­er po­lit­i­cal par­ty as­sume of­fice af­ter the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, in­ter­na­tion­al as­sis­tance in treat­ing crime may no longer be forth­com­ing.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Postal Work­ers Union (TTP­WU) has raised se­ri­ous alarm over the treat­ment of TTPost work­ers, warn­ing that sys­temic un­der­staffing and op­er­a­tional strain could jeop­ar­dise the time­ly de­liv­ery of poll cards to thou­sands of cit­i­zens ahead of the April 28 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.