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(Trinidad Guardian) Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has gotten her wish to have independent international observers for the General Election on April 28.

(Trinidad Guardian) A shootout between police and gunmen along the Eastern Main Road, Tunapuna, on Wednesday night, left two men dead, one injured and a suspect on the run.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police have seized quantities of cannabis, firearms, ammunition and cash during a drug trafficking operation in Claxton Bay.

A three-year-old, Alaia Etwaroo, of Lot 98 Exmouth in Region Two, died yesterday afternoon after a fence fell on her.

GAZA/CAIRO, (Reuters) – At least 85 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in Israeli airstrikes across Gaza today after Israel resumed its bombing campaign and ground operations in the enclave, the enclave’s health ministry said.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Ukraine struck a major Russian strategic bomber airfield today with drones, triggering a huge blast and fire about 700 km (435 miles) from the front lines of the war, Russian and Ukrainian officials said.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Stuart Young has finally broken his silence on a bullying incident involving him which occurred some 33 years ago while he was a student at St Mary’s College in Port-of-Spain.

Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand yesterday met with parents, teachers, and the board of St Stanislaus College to officially announce and break ground on a major expansion project for the school.

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – Turkey detained Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the main rival of President Tayyip Erdogan, on charges of corruption and aiding a terrorist group in what the main opposition party today called “a coup against our next president”.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Colombian Finance Minister Diego Guevara announced his resignation yesterday, amid clashes over budget cuts and just hours after lawmakers rejected a labor reform championed by leftist President Gustavo Petro.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Stuart Young is leading the charge to reverse the visa imposition placed on T&T by the United Kingdom.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Office of the Prime Minister has confirmed the 2025 Election will be held on April 28.

A Mon Repos man was today jailed for two years after being found guilty of trying to extort $1.5m from a man with the threat that nude photos of the victim and his wife would be published.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts rebuked President Donald Trump today for suggesting the way to resolve a court dispute was by impeaching the judge.

(Reuters) – The Trump administration in court filings has for the first time acknowledged that it fired nearly 25,000 recently hired workers, and said agencies were working to bring all of them back after a judge ruled that their terminations were likely illegal.

(Trinidad Guardian) Newly appointed Finance Minister Vishnu Dhanpaul yesterday pledged that his tenure will not bring financial hardship to the people of Trinidad and Tobago.

(Trinidad Guardian) At 10.11 am yesterday, Stuart Young became Trinidad and Tobago’s eighth Prime Minister.

(Trinidad Guardian) A former special reserve police (SRP) officer was shot and killed early this morning.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A U.S. judge today ordered Trump administration officials to explain whether they violated his order by deporting hundreds of Venezuelan gang members over the weekend, a move that could provoke a constitutional clash between the president and the federal judiciary.

(Trinidad Guardian) Stuart Young has taken the oath of office to become this country’s 8th Prime Minister.