There will be an “IMF Part 2” un­der a Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) gov­ern­ment, the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) Aranguez/St Joseph can­di­date Ter­rence Deyals­ingh warned on Tues­day night.

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.

While an of­fi­cial cal­cu­la­tion will be done in June this year, of­fi­cials from the Min­istry of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices are re­port­ing that the num­ber of home­less per­sons may have de­creased in re­cent years.

Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly wants the over 17,900 stu­dents sit­ting the 2025 Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am to­day to know that re­gard­less of what hap­pens, it is not the end of their ed­u­ca­tion­al jour­ney.

Rel­a­tives of Kendell Doolal, who was mur­dered on Tues­day night, be­lieve jeal­ousy on his job site was the rea­son for his killing.

A Venezue­lan man who poked his head out­side his front door af­ter hear­ing a com­mo­tion, was shot in the mouth and neck by the men who were chas­ing his 44-year-old friend to kill him on Tues­day night.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to the al­leged rape of an 11-year-old stu­dent by a close male rel­a­tive, three years ago.

The mur­der toll in­creased yes­ter­day, fol­low­ing sep­a­rate killings in Pe­tit Val­ley and San Juan.

The U.S. gov­ern­ment has banned Amer­i­can gov­ern­ment per­son­nel in Chi­na, as well as fam­i­ly mem­bers and con­trac­tors with se­cu­ri­ty clear­ances, from any ro­man­tic or sex­u­al re­la­tion­ships with Chi­nese cit­i­zens, The As­so­ci­at­ed Press has learned.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr. Ter­rance Drew says the Third Fo­rum on Hu­man Rights De­fend­ers in En­vi­ron­men­tal Mat­ters in Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean which is be­ing held in an Eng­lish-speak­ing Caribbean coun­try rep­re­sents more than a meet­ing of minds, but rather, a meet­ing of pur­pose.

Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the To­ba­go Coun­cil of the PNM, An­cil Den­nis, be­lieves a leaked record­ing—al­leged­ly fea­tur­ing Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine and UNC Po­lit­i­cal Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar—con­firms his long-held sus­pi­cion that there was a de­lib­er­ate plot to de­stroy To­ba­go’s con­struc­tion sec­tor.

A 39-year-old Bel­mont man has been grant­ed $650,000 bail af­ter be­ing charged with two counts of pos­ses­sion of stolen ve­hi­cles.