June 2 is nom­i­na­tion day for can­di­dates in the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment's (PNM) June 29 in­ter­nal elec­tion.

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.

To­ba­go Ho­tel and Tourism As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Regi­nald MacLean says de­spite spend­ing over a quar­ter mil­lion dol­lars last year to fight sar­gas­sum, the cri­sis is on­ly get­ting worse.

Min­is­ter of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment, Kennedy Swarats­ingh, says there are plans to in­te­grate cli­mate risk in­to the coun­try’s na­tion­al and eco­nom­ic de­vel­op­ment plans. It comes as cli­mate ex­perts yes­ter­day called on of­fi­cials to fo­cus their ef­forts on plans to mit­i­gate the im­pacts of flood­ing.

Re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty con­sul­tant Garvin Heer­ah says there is an ur­gent need for a co­or­di­nat­ed Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty strat­e­gy on how to ad­dress con­cerns of de­por­tees from the US.

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.