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Thursday, July 3, 2025

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NJAC gets Senate pick

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For the first time since its for­ma­tion in 1969, a mem­ber of the Na­tion­al Joint Ac­tion Com­mit­tee (NJAC) was set to be a mem­ber of Par­lia­ment.

Ac­cord­ing to a well-placed source, NJAC deputy po­lit­i­cal leader, Em­bau Mo­heni, was among the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship's 16 sen­a­tors for Trinidad and To­ba­go's tenth Par­lia­ment. NJAC Chief Ser­vant and po­lit­i­cal leader, Makan­dal Daa­ga, yes­ter­day de­clined to com­ment on Mo­heni's ap­point­ment to the Sen­ate. Daa­ga said that it would be in­ap­pro­pri­ate to of­fer com­ment on sen­a­to­r­i­al ap­point­ments that NJAC mem­bers were tipped to as­sume.

NJAC was one of five po­lit­i­cal par­ties that unit­ed to form the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship in last month's gen­er­al elec­tion. Al­though the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship won the elec­tion, no NJAC can­di­date was suc­cess­ful in se­cur­ing a seat in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives. Daa­ga was made a Cul­tur­al Am­bas­sador Ex­tra­or­di­naire to the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com). The Trinidad Guardian was in­formed that Mo­heni would be the lone NJAC mem­ber to be of­fered a sen­a­to­r­i­al ap­point­ment.

Ac­cord­ing to the of­fi­cial NJAC Web site, Mo­heni served as NJAC's po­lit­i­cal head in To­ba­go and chair­man of the To­ba­go Cul­tur­al Com­mit­tee. His in­volve­ment in NJAC dates back to 1970 and his par­tic­i­pa­tion in NJAC's fights re­sult­ed in him be­ing ar­rest­ed at the age eigh­teen. Mo­heni opt­ed to re­main in prison rather than ac­cept bail from his fa­ther on his fa­ther's con­di­tion that he should leave NJAC. Mo­heni has served as the prin­ci­pal of To­ba­go's Eliz­a­beth's Col­lege since 1993.

As NJAC's head of the To­ba­go Cul­tur­al Com­mit­tee, Mo­heni was al­so in­volved in the or­gan­is­ing an­nu­al Eman­ci­pa­tion ral­lies and lec­tures in To­ba­go since 1985. Among his oth­er in­volve­ments in­clud­ed the pro­duc­tion of the To­ba­go Young Kings Ca­lyp­so Monarch com­pe­ti­tion and the var­i­ous To­ba­go ju­nior ca­lyp­so com­pe­ti­tions since 1990.

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?Oth­er mem­bers of the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship's sen­a­to­r­i­al team in­clude:

�2 At­tor­ney Gen­er­al–Anand Ram­lo­gan;

�2 Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter–John Sandy;

�2 Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion Min­is­ter–Rudrawat­tie Ram­goolam;

�2 Sci­ence, Tech­nol­o­gy and Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter–Fazal Karim;

�2 Health Min­is­ter–Therese Bap­tiste-Cor­nelis;

�2 Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter–Em­manuel George;

�2 Food Pro­duc­tion, Land and Ma­rine Af­fairs Min­is­ter–Vas­ant Bharath;

�2 Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic and So­cial Re-Struc­tur­ing, and Gen­der Af­fairs Min­is­ter Mary King; and

�2 Par­lia­men­tary Sec­re­tary in the Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy Af­fairs, Kevin Ram­nar­ine.


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