With the 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tion just days away, the usu­al­ly serene con­stituen­cy of Ma­yaro braces it­self for a new be­gin­ning. Re­gard­less of the out­come, Ma­yaro will have a new par­lia­men­tary rep­re­sen­ta­tive.

Po­lit­i­cal par­ties are in a height­ened phase of Gen­er­al Elec­tion cam­paign­ing now, as­sess­ing lat­est num­bers, com­fort and cri­sis lev­els, tight­en­ing "ar­tillery," mu­sic trucks are do­ing the bat­tling in places and con­struc­tion is start­ing in the PNM and UNC stages at the Ed­die Hart Sa­van­nah and Aranguez Sa­van­nah grounds re­spec­tive­ly. It's the las lap. Here's some of what you may have missed on the plat­form:

Caribbean Air­lines has con­firmed that ne­go­ti­a­tions with the Trinidad and To­ba­go Air­line Pi­lots As­so­ci­a­tion (TTAL­PA) over the 2020–2023 Col­lec­tive Labour Agree­ment are pro­gress­ing steadi­ly.

The Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) has "un­equiv­o­cal­ly con­demned" a cir­cu­lat­ing pho­to which claims the Com­mis­sion’s Chief Elec­tion Of­fi­cer (CEO) and sev­er­al Re­turn­ing Of­fi­cers are af­fil­i­at­ed with a po­lit­i­cal par­ty.

Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young met with the Chief of Mis­sion of the CARI­COM Elec­tion Ob­ser­va­tion Mis­sion (CEOM), Ian Hugh­es, and oth­er mem­bers of the ob­serv­er team at the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre in St Ann’s on Wednes­day, five days ahead of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s gen­er­al elec­tion.

In this pho­to pro­vid­ed by the Ukrain­ian Emer­gency Ser­vice, res­cuers car­ry out bod­ies of pas­sen­gers af­ter a Russ­ian drone hit a pub­lic bus in Marhanets, Dnipropetro­vsk re­gion, Wednes­day, April 23, 2025. (Ukrain­ian Emer­gency Ser­vice via AP)

So­cial­ly dis­placed peo­ple be­tween the ages of 35 and 55 years in the Bor­ough of Ari­ma will soon be able to seek shel­ter at the new­ly opened Cara­po House Tran­si­tion­al Cen­tre, lo­cat­ed along the Ari­ma Main Road.

Brazil ‘s fed­er­al po­lice said Wednes­day they are in­ves­ti­gat­ing a scheme that di­vert­ed over 6 bil­lion reais (US$1.05 bil­lion) from pen­sions paid by the Na­tion­al So­cial Se­cu­ri­ty In­sti­tute.

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Vish­nu Dhan­paul says a re-elect­ed PNM ad­min­is­tra­tion may in­crease the Se­nior Cit­i­zens' Grant once there is fis­cal space.

In line with the glob­al growth of the skin­care in­dus­try, AM­CO has of­fi­cial­ly launched its new Beau­ty Cor­ner.

Be­fore be­com­ing a cer­ti­fied glo­be­trot­ter, Dil­lon De­Coteau had as­pi­ra­tions of work­ing with aero­planes, al­though he didn’t know he would end up be­ing known for board­ing them rather than guid­ing them.

The Ba­hamas gov­ern­ment says a video cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia and show­ing Prime Min­is­ter Philip Davis pro­mot­ing an in­vest­ment scheme is “fake and gen­er­at­ed us­ing ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence (AI) tech­nol­o­gy”.