Close to 100 sup­port­ers came out yes­ter­day to sup­port the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) Can­di­date for Barataria/San Juan Ja­son Williams.

“I will fight be­cause I be­lieve that I live here and I have a right and I owe it to my con­stituen­cy and my­self to have a bet­ter life.”

Wat­son Duke’s Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) says it is tak­ing the gen­er­al elec­tion cam­paign in To­ba­go to a new lev­el by of­fer­ing, for the first time, dri­ve-in cam­paign meet­ings.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, who is pre­dict­ing her par­ty will win the Au­gust 10 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, has called for those from oth­er po­lit­i­cal sides who are fed up with the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment to unite to fight them in a Na­tion­al Ac­cord Ini­tia­tive.

The fam­i­ly mem­bers of Per­cy Thomas are adamant that their nephew Roger Mon­roe the PNM’s can­di­date for To­co/San­gre Grande has been telling half-truths to the me­dia.

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.

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.

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.

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).