Gail Alexan­der

At­tor­ney Kei­th Scot­land has been cho­sen as the PNM’s Port-of-Spain South can­di­date, PoS South ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cials an­nounced last night.

This was af­ter Scot­land was screened by the PNM’s screen­ing team. There were five oth­er nom­i­nees. The se­lec­tion com­pletes the PNM’s screen­ings.

Mean­while, one time PNM MP Pe­ter Tay­lor yes­ter­day joined the Op­po­si­tion UNC’s cam­paign for Moru­ga as­sist­ing UNC can­di­date Michelle Ben­jamin.

Tay­lor said, “I’ve been flood­ed with calls of frus­tra­tion by many per­sons over al­le­ga­tions by Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Stu­art Young that Tues­day’s protests were po­lit­i­cal­ly mo­ti­vat­ed.

“His­to­ry has shown that the par­ty which wins Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment elec­tions goes on to win gen­er­al elec­tions and the UNC rose in the Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment elec­tions. So if any par­ty would want to en­sure the at­mos­phere re­mains con­ducive to free and fair elec­tions, it’s the UNC. Young didn’t pro­vide a shred of ev­i­dence.”

“Moru­ga/Table­land, de­scribed as the most mar­gin­al of the mar­gin­als, will set the agen­da for the rest of T&T in this elec­tion, par­tic­u­lar­ly since this PNM Gov­ern­ment has col­lapsed. T&T has to unite across all lines and speak with one voice to re­move the ex­is­ten­tial threat that the PNM pos­es.”