Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) deputy leader Jear­lean John has been se­lect­ed to con­test Cou­va North, David Lee has been shift­ed from Pointe-a-Pierre to con­test Ca­roni Cen­tral and ex­ec­u­tive mem­ber Sean Sobers will con­test Tabaquite in­stead of Ani­ta Haynes-Al­leyne.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress po­lit­i­cal leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has re­vealed the re­main­ing po­ten­tial can­di­dates for the par­ty to make up its slate to con­test the April 28 gen­er­al elec­tion.

For­mer Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Ca­roni Cen­tral, Arnold Ram has said that his ded­i­ca­tion to the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) re­mains un­wa­ver­ing af­ter be­ing over­looked as a nom­i­nee for the April 28 gen­er­al elec­tion, de­spite his dis­ap­point­ment in be­ing left out.

For­mer Snr Supt of po­lice and prospec­tive can­di­date for Tu­na­puna Roger Alexan­der has vowed that ad­di­tion­al re­sources and equip­ment would be in­vest­ed in this coun­try’s na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies if the UNC is vot­ed in­to of­fice.

“It doesn’t wow me a bit,” said Nicole Greenidge, the moth­er of de­ceased div­er Yusuf Hen­ry, short­ly af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young’s an­nounce­ment of a $1 mil­lion ex-gra­tia pay­ment to fam­i­lies of the four de­ceased Land and Ma­rine Con­tract­ing Ser­vices Ltd (LM­CS) divers in­volved in the Paria Div­ing Tragedy and the lone sur­vivor Christo­pher Boodram.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) deputy leader Dr Roodal Mooni­lal has la­belled Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young’s claim that the UNC will de­val­ue the TT dol­lar if elect­ed in­to gov­ern­ment a “scare tac­tic.”

Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has an­nounced that for­mer Petrotrin work­ers will have the op­por­tu­ni­ty to re­turn to work at the Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery un­der its in­com­ing op­er­a­tor, Oan­do PLC. How­ev­er, the Oil­field Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU) has dis­missed this as a last-minute elec­tion promise.

Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) po­lit­i­cal leader Gary Grif­fith is dou­bling down on his claims that he’s re­spon­si­ble for draft­ing sev­er­al plans for Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bises­sar in­clud­ing the for­ma­tion of gov­ern­ment min­istries.

Min­is­ter of Trade Paula Gopee-Scoon says of­fi­cials from this coun­try and the Unit­ed States have agreed to en­gage in di­a­logue to con­tin­u­ous­ly re­view the tar­iff struc­ture be­tween the two na­tions.

San­gre Grande Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion chair­man Ken­wyn Phillip has blamed claims of cor­rup­tion lev­elled against him on the elec­tion sea­son, as he de­nied any wrong­do­ing af­ter an email, from an anony­mous source, raised con­cerns of mis­con­duct with­in the cor­po­ra­tion.

The pres­i­dent of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) is ex­press­ing scep­ti­cism over Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young’s cam­paign pledge to re­move Val­ue Added Tax (VAT) from school uni­forms if re-elect­ed.

Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rence Deyals­ingh is urg­ing the pub­lic, par­tic­u­lar­ly peo­ple fre­quent­ing and liv­ing in forest­ed ar­eas to take the nec­es­sary pre­cau­tions to pro­tect them­selves against in­fec­tions from malar­ia.