The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) is in­ten­si­fy­ing its call for the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) to be un­der clos­er scruti­ny, as it says there is a need for a Com­mis­sion of En­quiry in­to the agency’s op­er­a­tions.

Pres­i­dent Gen­er­al of the OW­TU An­cel Ro­get has vowed that work­ers who held out against the Gov­ern­ment’s four per cent wage of­fer will start new ne­go­ti­a­tions at 10 per cent once the UNC wins the Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Ex­press­ing sym­pa­thy for hard­work­ing farm­ers, UNC Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has vowed to es­tab­lish a spe­cial agri­cul­tur­al court to ad­dress prae­di­al lar­ce­ny if elect­ed to of­fice.

Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young yes­ter­day boast­ed that his Gov­ern­ment was leav­ing of­fice ahead of Mon­day’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion with­out any ma­jor cor­rup­tion al­le­ga­tions against it.

That was the dis­missal from Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress front­lin­er Anil Roberts in Moru­ga last night, to the news that out­go­ing UNC Ch­agua­nas West MP Di­nesh Ram­bal­ly was at that time in a Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) meet­ing in San­gre Grande.

Of all the mo­ments that lit up the 2010 Gen­er­al Elec­tion cam­paign, it was San Juan pen­sion­er Per­cy Vil­lafana who grabbed the most head­lines and at­ten­tion, as his ac­tion re­mained firm­ly etched in the pub­lic’s mind.

Pres­i­dent of the In­ter-Re­li­gious Or­gan­i­sa­tion (IRO) Dr El­lis Bur­ris is urg­ing elec­tion can­di­dates to keep po­lit­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ties away from re­li­gious ob­ser­vances.

There has been an­oth­er sur­pris­ing po­lit­i­cal en­dorse­ment for the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC), this time from crick­eter and en­ter­tain­er Dwayne Bra­vo.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) deputy po­lit­i­cal leader Jear­lean John is as­sur­ing that Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is well and will be ca­pa­ble of run­ning the coun­try should the par­ty win Mon­day’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment To­ba­go West can­di­date Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis says To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty’s Joel “Nuttsy” Samp­son has not spo­ken a sin­gle word to vot­ers on his own through­out the cam­paign—and she’s dar­ing him to put down the writ­ten speech­es and face To­bag­o­ni­ans.

A “mis­chief mak­er” is how for­mer pub­lic util­i­ties min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les de­scribed Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) pres­i­dent Fe­l­isha Thomas, af­ter she claimed Gov­ern­ment was plan­ning to re­trench 5,000 Wa­ter and Sew­er­age Au­thor­i­ty (WASA) work­ers.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment Gen­er­al Elec­tion cam­paign man­ag­er Ro­han Sinanan has de­fend­ed the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC), af­ter the body was crit­i­cised by the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress this week.