CAS­TRIES, St. Lu­cia, Nov 9, CMC – St. Lu­cians will go to the polls on De­cem­ber 1 to elect a new gov­ern­ment, 11 months be­fore the gen­er­al elec­tion is con­sti­tu­tion­al­ly due in No­vem­ber 2026.

Par­lia­men­tary Sec­re­tary in the Min­istry of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs, Wil­fred Nicholas Mor­ris, has called for stronger in­ter­na­tion­al col­lab­o­ra­tion to com­bat nar­co-traf­fick­ing and transna­tion­al crime, warn­ing that these threats have un­der­mined peace and se­cu­ri­ty in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The ANSA McAL Group has part­nered with the Gov­ern­ment of Ja­maica to help re­store a safe and sus­tain­able wa­ter sup­ply to homes, schools, and es­sen­tial fa­cil­i­ties af­fect­ed by re­cent dis­rup­tions.

Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath has an­nounced that vet­er­an en­gi­neer and ex­ec­u­tive Ian Ram­rat­tan will be the new gen­er­al man­ag­er of the T&T Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC). Ram­rat­tan is ex­pect­ed to as­sume the role be­fore the end of the year.

Po­lice have charged two stu­dents seen phys­i­cal­ly as­sault­ing an­oth­er stu­dent on a stair­case at the Siparia East Sec­ondary School.

De­fence Sec­re­tary Pe­te Hegseth on Mon­day an­nounced the lat­est in a se­ries of strikes on boats ac­cused of fer­ry­ing drugs, killing six peo­ple in at­tacks on two ves­sels in the east­ern Pa­cif­ic Ocean.

The Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al of the Or­gan­i­sa­tion of Amer­i­can States (OAS), Al­bert Ramdin, has wel­comed the agree­ment to strength­en co­op­er­a­tion be­tween the pub­lic and pri­vate sec­tors in the eco­nom­ic, so­cial, and ed­u­ca­tion­al de­vel­op­ment of the re­gion, par­tic­u­lar­ly to sup­port Haiti.

Ty­phoon Fung-wong blew out of the north­west­ern Philip­pines on Mon­day af­ter set­ting off floods and land­slides, knock­ing out pow­er to en­tire provinces, killing at least eight peo­ple and dis­plac­ing more than 1.4 mil­lion oth­ers.

The body of kid­nap vic­tim Vish­nu Lal­la was dis­cov­ered on Sun­day night along an aban­doned road­way near the old Ca­roni (1975) Lim­it­ed med­ical clin­ic. Lal­la went miss­ing on Sat­ur­day, and a $100,000 ran­som had been de­mand­ed for his re­lease. He was the broth­er of Kr­ish­na Lal­la, founder of Su­per In­dus­tri­al Ser­vices.

A $100,000 ran­som de­mand has been made for the safe re­lease of 63-year-old farmer Vish­nu Lal­la, who was kid­napped on Sat­ur­day evening.

Po­lice are work­ing to es­tab­lish a mo­tive for the shoot­ing death of a 30-year-old Tu­na­puna moth­er and so­cial me­dia in­flu­encer who was gunned down on Sat­ur­day night while play­ing cards.

A Gov­ern­ment min­is­ter is lament­ing the coun­try’s crime sit­u­a­tion af­ter a close rel­a­tive was gunned down on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.