The Port-of-Spain South con­stituen­cy has tra­di­tion­al­ly been a Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) strong­hold. Out­go­ing MP Mar­lene Mc­don­ald has rep­re­sent­ed the area since 2007.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has dis­closed the re­al rea­son he fired for­mer Sport Min­is­ter Dar­ryl Smith, say­ing it had noth­ing to do with sex­u­al ha­rass­ment but be­cause Smith in­ter­fered with the prop­er process of the Pub­lic Ser­vice, re­sult­ing in a fi­nan­cial cost to tax­pay­ers.

A small po­lit­i­cal par­ty seek­ing to con­test three seats in the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion has threat­ened to at­tempt to ob­tain an in­junc­tion to post­pone the Au­gust 10 polls if spe­cial arrange­ments are not put in place to al­low one of its prospec­tive can­di­dates, who is strand­ed abroad, to sub­mit his nom­i­na­tion pa­pers. 

Af­ter Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) of­fi­cials al­leged the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) was pay­ing peo­ple $300 for their vote, the UNC has, in turn, ac­cused the PNM of be­ing be­hind a video show­ing a per­son with a UNC T-shirt and mon­ey in­side of it.

Here comes the tas­sa, mo­tor­cades and nom­i­na­tion pa­pers to­day—but po­lit­i­cal par­ties must lim­it their Nom­i­na­tion Day as­sem­blies to 25 due to the COVID-19 reg­u­la­tions.

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) can­di­date for Cu­mu­to/Man­zanil­la has asked the com­mu­ni­ty to give him a chance.

That's among a num­ber of points of ad­vice com­ing from Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to her can­di­date team as the elec­tion cam­paign heads to­wards high­er gear af­ter to­mor­row (Fri).

Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the Na­tion­al Coali­tion for Trans­for­ma­tion (NCT) Nali­ni Di­al be­lieves the Pa­tri­ot­ic Front head­ed by Mick­ela Pan­day should have had its ducks in a row be­fore it an­nounced its in­ten­tion to con­test the 2020 gen­er­al elec­tion.

There was an al­most Car­ni­val-es­que gath­er­ing along Bound­ary Road and Bound­ary ex­ten­sion as sup­port­ers of UNC can­di­dates Sad­dam Ho­sein and Al­hoy Hunt host­ed a joint walk­a­bout in the area yes­ter­day.

Four ma­jor can­di­dates for the Diego Mar­tin Cen­tral con­stituen­cy spoke to Guardian Me­dia about their plans for the de­vel­op­ment of the area if elect­ed in the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion.

The Op­po­si­tion UNC’s le­gal team is en­sur­ing that all of its can­di­dates’ doc­u­ments and sta­tus com­ply with the law for to­mor­row’s Nom­i­na­tion Day ex­er­cise—and that in­cludes the UNC’s Tu­na­puna can­di­date David Nakhid.

That’s what many peo­ple went to the Elec­tion and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion’s (EBC) Port-of-Spain of­fice to do in the last nine days of the vot­er reg­is­tra­tion pe­ri­od, EBC of­fi­cials con­firmed yes­ter­day.