On the cusp of the April 28 gen­er­al elec­tions, the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) has faced nine res­ig­na­tions in 24 days.

Ak­leea­ha Stafford, a con­tro­ver­sial so­cial me­dia per­son­al­i­ty known for her vlog The Re­al Raw Talk, is con­test­ing the San Fer­nan­do East seat un­der the All Peo­ple’s Par­ty (APP) in the up­com­ing Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress deputy leader Roodal Mooni­lal has al­leged that a min­is­ter is “col­lect­ing bribes” for is­su­ing work per­mits and the Unit­ed States au­thor­i­ties are on “the tracks” of the sit­u­a­tion.

In­cum­bent St Au­gus­tine MP Khadi­jah Ameen has called on Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young to apol­o­gise to for­mer school­mate Im­ran Khan di­rect­ly for a bul­ly­ing in­ci­dent at St Mary’s Col­lege 33 years ago.

Al­though po­lice killings have more than dou­bled since the year be­gan, act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Ju­nior Ben­jamin has come out in de­fence of his of­fi­cers, as he warned that the po­lice will not back down when con­front­ed by armed crim­i­nals.

Res­i­dents of Sama­roo Dri­ve, Bam­boo Num­ber 3, Val­sayn, were rocked out of their sleep around 5 am yes­ter­day, as an al­leged gun­fight en­sued when po­lice of­fi­cers stormed a rent­ed apart­ment to ap­pre­hend a sus­pect in an on­go­ing ex­tor­tion in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

A Venezue­lan na­tion­al was dis­cov­ered with a gun­shot to the head on the floor of the bed­room at his Tarou­ba home yes­ter­day morn­ing.

A Mor­vant ma­son, whose alias was “Doh Sleep,” was killed whilst help­ing to build a house in San Juan yes­ter­day.

Mas­quer­ad­er Sel­wyn Lit­tle, who was crushed to death by a mu­sic truck on Car­ni­val Mon­day, loved the two-day event with a pas­sion, so it was on­ly fit­ting that he was dressed in his Car­ni­val cos­tume for his fi­nal send-off yes­ter­day.

Ne­go­ti­a­tions be­tween the Oil­fields Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) and the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) of­fi­cial­ly be­gan yes­ter­day, fol­low­ing height­ened protest ac­tion by staff last week.

One day af­ter be­ing ap­point­ed Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter, Mar­vin Gon­za­les au­tho­rised a pre­ven­ta­tive de­ten­tion or­der for a Laven­tille man un­der the pow­ers of the State of Emer­gency.

Forty-one peo­ple who were ap­point­ed to serve as Re­turn­ing Of­fi­cers for the April 28, 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tion re­ceived the Writs of Elec­tion is­sued by Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo. This paves the way for the Re­turn­ing Of­fi­cers to have the au­thor­i­ty to “cause a poll to be tak­en in their re­spec­tive elec­toral dis­tricts on be­half of the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC)”.