A re­cent da­ta-dri­ven fore­cast by Cana­di­an con­sul­tan­cy firm Dunn Pierre Bar­nett and Com­pa­ny (DP­BA) has pre­dict­ed a nar­row vic­to­ry for the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) in the up­com­ing Gen­er­al Elec­tion on Mon­day.

The mar­gin­al con­stituen­cy of La Hor­quet­ta/Tal­paro is one of the largest of the 41 con­stituen­cies.

Days af­ter his re­lease from de­ten­tion un­der the State of Emer­gency (SoE), 43-year-old Shum­ba James, a man la­belled by po­lice as a no­to­ri­ous gang­ster, was killed in an al­leged shootout with of­fi­cers in his home­town of St Mary’s Vil­lage, Moru­ga, yes­ter­day. His friend, 34-year-old Visham Ryan Lochan, was al­so killed in the in­ci­dent.

In the lat­est in­ci­dent, De­von So­tio, 44, was fa­tal­ly shot by po­lice fol­low­ing a high-speed chase in Long­denville, Ch­agua­nas, yes­ter­day. Po­lice said So­tio had ad­dress­es at Clifton Street, East Dry Riv­er, Port-of-Spain, and Gail Trace, Long­denville.

With just three days to go be­fore the Gen­er­al Elec­tion, the Coun­cil for Re­spon­si­ble Po­lit­i­cal Be­hav­iour has flagged a spike in se­ri­ous breach­es of the Code of Eth­i­cal Po­lit­i­cal Con­duct, rais­ing con­cerns about the tone and tac­tics emerg­ing in the fi­nal days of the cam­paign.

As the coun­try pre­pares to head to the polls on Mon­day, Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) gen­er­al sec­re­tary Fos­ter Cum­mings is con­fi­dent his par­ty will win the 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Arch­bish­op Ja­son Gor­don is urg­ing cit­i­zens to re­ject the racism and neg­a­tiv­i­ty that is sur­fac­ing ahead of the gen­er­al elec­tion.

For­mer Ch­agua­nas West MP Di­nesh Ram­bal­ly says he washed his hands of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) well be­fore he ap­peared at the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment po­lit­i­cal meet­ing.

Days be­fore T&T de­cides who will lead it for the next five years, Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Mar­vin Gon­za­les says he is aware of who may be be­hind a pur­port­ed plot to dis­rupt the gen­er­al elec­tions.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) par­ty or­gan­is­er Bar­ry Padarath be­lieves the par­ty has run its best gen­er­al elec­tion cam­paign in re­cent his­to­ry be­cause they did not op­er­ate “UNC-ish” this time around.

In what ap­peared like a farewell speech yes­ter­day, Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Ro­han Sinanan thanked the Es­tate Po­lice As­so­ci­a­tion (EPA) and Se­nior Man­age­ment As­so­ci­a­tion (SMA) of Port-of-Spain for their sup­port dur­ing his tenure.

Ban­dits es­caped with close to $200,000 af­ter rob­bing a busi­ness­man in Cou­va on Thurs­day af­ter­noon.