Ani­ka Gumbs-San­di­ford

Con­fu­sion reigned at Bal­isi­er House yes­ter­day where the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment screen­ing con­tin­ued. "We fed up of com­ing here and then our nom­i­nees are be­ing re­ject­ed. If this hap­pens again next week we are not vot­ing for Man­ning," were some of the an­gry state­ments shout­ed by con­stituents as ex­ec­u­tives were in­struct­ed to re­turn to the draw­ing board. The con­fu­sion erupt­ed as the Ma­yaro ex­ec­u­tive was told they need­ed to bring a few nom­i­nees to be screened. It is the third time Ma­yaro busi­ness­man Clif­ford Camp­bell has faced the screen­ing com­mit­tee. He was un­op­posed. Yes­ter­day, Prime Min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning ad­mit­ted that a num­ber of is­sues sur­rounds the ex­ec­u­tive of some con­stituen­cies.

"Yes, we just have some is­sue with the ex­ec­u­tive of some of the con­stituen­cies. It is in­ter­nal is­sues and the ex­ec­u­tive needs to set­tle things. It has noth­ing to do with the can­di­dates," Man­ning said. Dis­ap­point­ment was al­so etched across the faces of Point Fortin con­stituents, as screen­ing was de­ferred un­til Tues­day. In­cum­bent MP Paula Gopee-Scoon said: "It is a bit dis­ap­point­ing. I know there were orig­i­nal­ly four nom­i­nees and one per­son dropped out. There was some is­sue and we were told to come back on Tues­day." The con­tro­ver­sial To­co/San­gre Grande seat is still up in the air. The ex­ec­u­tive has got­ten no word who will be their can­di­date, but were told to put their elec­tion ma­chin­ery in gear. A to­tal of nine con­stituen­cies were screened yes­ter­day.