Pun­dit Satyanana Ma­haraj, spir­i­tu­al leader of the Aranguez Satya Anand Ashram, has called on Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to con­sid­er reach­ing out to the voic­es with­in the par­ty who are call­ing for her res­ig­na­tion to try and reach a con­sen­sus to re­build the par­ty.

The Elec­tion and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) was still been un­able to fin­ish the re­count process for the St Joseph con­stituen­cy yes­ter­day, which meant it was un­able to fi­nalise the re­sult of the 2020 Gen­er­al Elec­tion al­most a week af­ter it oc­curred.

The Su­per­mar­ket As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T has called called off its boy­cott of Ram­saran’s Dairy Prod­ucts.

Re­counts by the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) of votes in bal­lot box­es and poll cards in four mar­gin­al con­stituen­cies were still at half mark yes­ter­day, with a flu­id sit­u­a­tion on­go­ing.

As the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress con­tin­ues to chal­lenge the 2020 Gen­er­al Elec­tion re­sults, the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment is again ac­cus­ing their po­lit­i­cal ri­vals of de­lib­er­ate­ly at­tempt­ing to slow down the process.

Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion Chief Elec­tions Of­fi­cer Fern Nar­cis-Scope yes­ter­day rub­bished claims by the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ can­di­date for Tu­na­puna David Nakhid, that the re­count he re­quest­ed in the mar­gin­al con­stituen­cy was be­ing done in an un­de­mo­c­ra­t­ic man­ner.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has con­demned what she calls the “reck­less com­ments” Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has made in re­la­tion to her par­ty’s call for re­counts in five con­stituen­cies.

The Coun­cil for Re­spon­si­ble Po­lit­i­cal Be­hav­iour is call­ing on all po­lit­i­cal par­ties, their lead­ers and sup­port­ers to give the high­est val­ue to re­spect, tol­er­ance and peace­ful re­la­tions among dif­fer­ent cit­i­zens in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The Elec­tion and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) says it is “con­fused” by some of the queries be­ing raised by the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) can­di­dates dur­ing the 2020 Gen­er­al Elec­tion re­count process.

Arch­bish­op Ja­son Gor­don and the Catholic Com­mis­sion for So­cial Jus­tice (CC­SJ) are urg­ing cit­i­zens to de­nounce racism in all its forms.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith yes­ter­day said an in­ves­ti­ga­tion has been launched in­to the dump­ing of 2020 Gen­er­al Elec­tion polling cards in Ari­ma.

The first or­der of busi­ness for the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment Gov­ern­ment will be the 2021 Bud­get, Prime Min­is­ter Kei­th Row­ley said last night.