To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) deputy po­lit­i­cal leader Dr Faith Breb­nor says new­ly elect­ed MPs Joel Samp­son and David Thomas are en­ter­ing Par­lia­ment with clear man­dates: to speak for To­ba­go, not for any po­lit­i­cal par­ty or per­son­al agen­da.

The Trini­bad artiste who had threat­ened sup­port­ers from a po­lit­i­cal par­ty via Tik­Tok videos three weeks be­fore the Gen­er­al Elec­tion has been bond­ed in the sum of $5000 for two years.    

Be­hind the Vat­i­can’s me­dieval walls, 133 car­di­nals gath­ered for Mass on Wednes­day morn­ing in prepa­ra­tion for the start of a con­clave to elect a suc­ces­sor to Pope Fran­cis.

Near­ly a month af­ter 41-year-old Iyana Cas­tana­da col­lapsed and died af­ter drink­ing a cup of tea, an au­top­sy has still not been con­duct­ed.

The Ja­maican gov­ern­ment is of­fer­ing a two-mil­lion-dol­lar (One Ja­maican dol­lar = US$0.008 cents) re­ward for in­for­ma­tion lead­ing to the ar­rest of those re­spon­si­ble for the mur­der of 14-year-old Terona Thomas in Olympic Gar­dens on the out­skirts of the cap­i­tal.

In­dia fired mis­siles in­to Pak­istani-con­trolled ter­ri­to­ry in sev­er­al lo­ca­tions ear­ly Wednes­day, killing at least 26 peo­ple in­clud­ing a child, in what Pak­istan’s leader called an act of war.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has ad­dressed any doubts about her ca­pac­i­ty to lead the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) in the Low­er House, as­sert­ing that while her lead­er­ship may ap­pear un­der­stat­ed, it is firm­ly root­ed in ex­pe­ri­ence and un­wa­ver­ing ded­i­ca­tion to pub­lic ser­vice.

De­feat­ed Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Mover­ment (PNM) can­di­date for San Fer­nan­do West, Faris Al-Rawi, has told par­ty sup­port­ers that there will be a dif­fi­cult po­lit­i­cal jour­ney ahead.

Less than a week af­ter their po­si­tions as deputy po­lit­i­cal lead­ers were re­voked by for­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley, Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly and Colm Im­bert were ap­point­ed as chair­man and vice chair­man of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM).

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les wants the Gov­ern­ment to bring the ev­i­dence to show that White­hall is un­fit for use.

Min­is­ter of De­fence, Wayne Sturge, says he and Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty, Roger Alexan­der, along with Min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Sean Sobers, held talks with for­mer UNC sen­a­tor Ger­ald Ramdeen in a meet­ing that last­ed over two hours yes­ter­day.

As Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar push­es ahead with her promise to re­vive the Cou­va Chil­dren’s Hos­pi­tal, the T&T Na­tion­al Nurs­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) says there is no need for it and there are not even enough pae­di­atric nurs­es to staff the fa­cil­i­ty.