As he mount­ed a Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) plat­form for the first time in his life last night, for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) at­tor­ney gen­er­al John Je­re­mie, in en­dors­ing UNC leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, told the crowd, “I am the last man you would ex­pect to see here tonight.”

For­mer Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) MP Jack Warn­er has ac­cused Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les of pro­mot­ing vi­o­lence on the Gen­er­al Elec­tion cam­paign trail, af­ter Gon­za­les told sup­port­ers to “bury (Warn­er) in the Lopinot ceme­tery” dur­ing a PNM meet­ing last week.

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.

Out­go­ing Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Cu­mu­to/ Man­zanil­la MP Dr Rai Rag­bir has back­hand­ed UNC Gen­er­al Elec­tion can­di­date Sean Sobers’s de­scrip­tion of him as a “po­lit­i­cal va­grant”—and thanked Sobers for re­mind­ing him of why he left the Op­po­si­tion par­ty.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter and Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Gen­er­al Elec­tion can­di­date for Diego Mar­tin North/East, Colm Im­bert, has con­firmed le­gal ac­tion is un­der­way against nine in­di­vid­u­als—in­clud­ing a Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) can­di­date—over defam­a­to­ry state­ments made about him on so­cial me­dia.

Pa­tri­ot­ic Front (PF) leader Mick­ela Pan­day is dar­ing larg­er po­lit­i­cal par­ties who she claims have been ha­rass­ing her can­di­dates on the cam­paign trail to tar­get her in­stead.

With just two weeks un­til the 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, the Con­gress of Peo­ple (COP) has claimed po­lit­i­cal in­tim­i­da­tion as its St Ann’s East can­di­date Ger­rard Small was re­cent­ly kicked out of his cam­paign of­fice.

The Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) and Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) are both wel­com­ing for­eign elec­tion ob­servers for the April 28 polls.

PDP Po­lit­i­cal Leader Wat­son Duke has apol­o­gised to To­bag­o­ni­ans for the job loss­es and eco­nom­ic chaos that fol­lowed his de­ci­sion to hand over pow­er to Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) To­ba­go East can­di­date Ayan­na Web­ster-Roy is warn­ing To­bag­o­ni­ans that if the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) wins the up­com­ing Gen­er­al Elec­tion, “we all stand to lose—and lose big.”

Se­nior law en­force­ment of­fi­cers vy­ing for the op­por­tu­ni­ty to lead the Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) are hop­ing to re­store a sense of se­cu­ri­ty across the na­tion. How­ev­er, one be­lieves the process of se­lect­ing a com­mis­sion­er of po­lice should be trans­par­ent through­out with each can­di­date be­ing aware of their scores along the way.

Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Mar­vin Gon­za­les says the State of Emer­gency (SoE) was a “suc­cess,” as he re­vealed 14 peo­ple were charged as it came to an end at mid­night Sun­day.