Op­po­si­tion leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has de­tailed how the UNC gov­ern­ment will fund some of their plans for the coun­try.

There is no “ex­piry date” on fraud mat­ters, Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has point­ed out, par­tic­u­lar­ly to ILP leader Jack Warn­er.

Ari­ma May­or and Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) can­di­date for D’Abadie/O’Meara Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian is deny­ing that her so­cial me­dia post about peo­ple steal­ing man­hole cov­ers to make “tawahs” was racist.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley says the on­ly way in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to on­go­ing fraud in­ves­ti­ga­tions at state en­ti­ties will be con­clud­ed is if the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress is kept out of gov­ern­ment.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress po­lit­i­cal leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is propos­ing a wage sub­sidy as a means to re­in­force the work­force that has been af­fect­ed by the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress can­di­date for San Fer­nan­do West Sean Sobers will kick off his com­mu­ni­ty foot­ball event to­day at Na­pari­ma Col­lege Grounds in San Fer­nan­do. Sobers, how­ev­er, as­sured that prop­er pro­to­cols in keep­ing with the Min­istry of Health guide­lines will be en­forced.

Po­lit­i­cal lead­ers of some small­er par­ties have blanked Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s uni­ty call while some have called for the UNC to fix cer­tain things and ques­tioned why the uni­ty call came so late.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s call for po­lit­i­cal sides op­posed to the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) to join with her par­ty is a con­cept of “uni­ty” has come too late to be trust­ed as sin­cere, af­ter the UNC lead­er­ship re­ject­ed that call from its MPs in 2019.

Through­out the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic, all eyes have been on Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rence Deyals­ingh as the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) led ad­min­is­tra­tion was tasked to pro­tect the coun­try from the virus which has al­ready killed over 500,000 peo­ple world­wide and in­fect­ed mil­lions more. How­ev­er, Deyals­ingh is not claim­ing any ad­van­tage from this pub­lic­i­ty for the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion as he seeks to hold on to his St Joseph seat he held since 2013.

Scat­tered show­ers across south Trinidad did not damp­en the usu­al flare which Nom­i­na­tion Day has grown ac­cus­tomed to and even de­spite calls to ad­here to lim­it­ing gath­er­ings to no more twen­ty-five, scores of par­ty sup­port­ers ral­lied be­hind their re­spec­tive can­di­dates who inched clos­er to en­ter­ing the elec­tion gayelle.

Can­di­dates for po­lit­i­cal par­ties hop­ing to con­test the 41 seats in the Au­gust 10 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, filed nom­i­na­tion pa­pers at the of­fices of Re­turn­ing Of­fi­cers yes­ter­day. Guardian Me­dia’s pho­tog­ra­phers cap­tured the fan­fare that ac­com­pa­nied the nom­i­na­tions acrossed the coun­try.

That was how yes­ter­day’s Nom­i­na­tion Day ex­er­cis­es for Gen­er­al Elec­tion can­di­dates went down in a num­ber of con­stituen­cies.