And even be­fore he lands to­day, Bar­ry Padarath came out swing­ing at the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment Gov­ern­ment on how they’ve han­dled the is­sue of strand­ed na­tion­als abroad.

The UNC’s Can­di­date for Ca­roni Cen­tral, Arnold Ram, says wa­ter woes are just one of the ma­jor is­sues that have been plagu­ing the peo­ple of Freeport—and Ca­roni Cen­tral—for the past five years.

Res­i­dents of Or­ange Val­ley staged a protest demon­stra­tion on Fri­day, call­ing on Kam­la Per­sad- Bisses­sar, po­lit­i­cal leader of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC), to re­in­stat­ed Ra­mona Ram­di­al as the par­ty’s can­di­date for Cou­va North.

The UNC’s can­di­date for the Ch­agua­nas West seat strong­ly be­lieves that in­ter­na­tion­al ob­servers should be called in for the Au­gust 10th Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Pub­lic Re­la­tions Of­fi­cer, PRO, Ani­ta Haynes has la­belled Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley “a bul­ly” who has to beg To­ba­go for for­give­ness.

The Op­po­si­tion has wel­comed Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s move to in­vite both Cari­com and the Com­mon­wealth to send elec­tion ob­servers to Trinidad and To­ba­go for the Au­gust 10 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Squat­ters liv­ing in En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas will be giv­en tenure for the land they are oc­cu­py­ing.

Squat­ters liv­ing in the Ch­agua­nas East con­stituen­cy of En­ter­prise are ex­pect­ed to get tenure for the land they are oc­cu­py­ing.

One of the mem­bers of the Bet­ter Unit­ed po­lit­i­cal coali­tion says while the group will not of­fer can­di­dates for all 41 elec­toral seats in the up­com­ing 2020 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, it still hopes to make an im­pact in the elec­tion and the Par­lia­ment.

Over­tures have been made by UNC leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to some re­ject­ed UNC in­cum­bents who might be brought in­to a fu­ture UNC Gov­ern­ment via the Sen­ate or oth­er­wise, UNC deputy leader David Lee has said.

It’s a four-way bat­tle for St Au­gus­tine so far af­ter Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) leader Car­olyn Seep­er­sad- Bachan yes­ter­day an­nounced she will con­test the St Au­gus­tine seat.

More elec­tions might be on the cards af­ter the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion as by-elec­tions may be­come pos­si­ble for re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tion seats if the four gen­er­al elec­tion can­di­dates who hold lo­cal gov­ern­ment seats win in the gen­er­al elec­tion.