The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) in­cum­bent can­di­date for To­ba­go West, Ayan­na Web­ster-Roy is con­fi­dent that she will re­tain the seat in the Au­gust 10 gen­er­al elec­tion.

The po­lit­i­cal leader of the Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) and To­ba­go East can­di­date Wat­son Duke can­celled the planned meet­ing with One To­ba­go Voice.

The An­ju­man Sun­nat-Ul-Jam­mat As­so­ci­a­tion (AS­JA) is dis­tanc­ing it­self from the po­si­tion be­ing tak­en by the head of one Mus­lim group in a lead up to the Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Ch­agua­nas May­or, Van­dana Mo­hit, is ac­cus­ing the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) of us­ing con­fi­den­tial in­for­ma­tion from the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) to can­vass for the 2020 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has ac­cused Op­po­si­tion leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of mak­ing dan­ger­ous and un­found­ed claims against the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) and the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) con­cern­ing for­eign na­tion­als’ abil­i­ty to re­turn home to vote in the Au­gust 20 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is con­fi­dent it will be able to make an im­prove­ment at the polls in the Au­gust 10 gen­er­al elec­tion.

The Elec­tion and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) has re­quest­ed the pres­ence of more po­lice of­fi­cers than usu­al for the Au­gust 10 gen­er­al elec­tion, to help en­force so­cial dis­tanc­ing guide­lines.

At­tor­ney Gen­er­al and Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for San Fer­nan­do West Faris Al-Rawi yes­ter­day rub­bished sug­ges­tions that the hous­ing de­vel­op­ment at Bayshore, Mara­bel­la, set to be­gin in short or­der, is an elec­tion gim­mick.

The Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots(PDP)has in­vit­ed three To­ba­go po­lit­i­cal par­ties, ex­clud­ing the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), to dis­cuss the Au­gust 10 gen­er­al elec­tion.

An­oth­er po­lit­i­cal par­ty is eye­ing the mar­gin­al con­stituen­cy of San Fer­nan­do West mak­ing it a five-way race for that seat so far.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley will tonight launch his cam­paign for the Diego Mar­tin West seat which he holds.

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.