For­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) gen­er­al sec­re­tary Ash­ton Ford says mem­bers are con­cerned about the “rushed” June 29 elec­tion con­ven­tion. He is al­so call­ing on the cur­rent lead­er­ship to re­con­sid­er the ex­clu­sion of par­ty groups’ par­tic­i­pa­tion in the process.

As most Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) cus­tomers have breathed a sigh of re­lief over the Gov­ern­ment’s promise not to in­crease elec­tric­i­ty rates, for­mer Pub­lic Util­i­ties min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les says the cur­rent sta­tus quo is not sus­tain­able.

The wid­ow of five-time Ca­lyp­so Monarch Leroy “Black Stal­in” Cal­liste is seek­ing to over­turn a de­fault judg­ment of over $300,000 ob­tained against her by a pho­to­jour­nal­ist for the unau­tho­rised use of a pho­to­graph of her late hus­band.

As dis­as­ter struck a Princes Town fam­i­ly on Sun­day, they could on­ly stand help­less­ly by the road­side and watch as a fire en­gulfed their home, de­stroy­ing near­ly every­thing they owned.

Min­is­ter of De­fence Wayne Struge says a fi­nal de­ci­sion on the itin­er­ary for dance­hall su­per­star Adidjah “Vy­bz Kar­tel” Palmer should be made soon, but says his min­istry on­ly re­ceived a new sched­ule yes­ter­day.

Two Diego Mar­tin men were re­leased af­ter spend­ing three days in cus­tody as in­quiries in­to the mur­der of Arkim Quashie con­tin­ue.

Cen­tral Di­vi­sion po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing three sep­a­rate rob­beries which took place with­in a three hour pe­ri­od on Sun­day morn­ing in Ch­agua­nas and Cunu­pia.

While they agree that the Gov­ern­ment has a re­spon­si­bil­i­ty in cre­at­ing a safer na­tion, the rel­a­tives of mur­dered school­boy Zwade Al­leyne say the work of the au­thor­i­ties must be sup­port­ed by fam­i­lies.

The Supreme Court on Mon­day al­lowed the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion to strip le­gal pro­tec­tions from 350,000 Venezue­lans, po­ten­tial­ly ex­pos­ing them to de­por­ta­tion.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) has de­clared the of­fi­cial start of the 2025 Wet Sea­son, fol­low­ing rain­fall linked to the In­ter-Trop­i­cal Con­ver­gence Zone (ITCZ).

The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) South Cam­pus in Pe­nal-Debe will of­fi­cial­ly open for aca­d­e­m­ic pro­grammes in Au­gust 2025, near­ly a decade af­ter its sched­uled com­ple­tion.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) has dis­con­tin­ued the Ad­verse Weath­er Alert for Trinidad as of 3:58 PM to­day, as the prob­a­bil­i­ty of heavy and ex­ten­sive show­ers has de­creased.