Chair­man of One To­ba­go Voice (OTV) steer­ing com­mit­tee, Ho­choy Charles, says OTV is back­ing the Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) To­ba­go West can­di­date, Tashia Grace Bur­ris.

Jack Warn­er is back in T&T pol­i­tics and is ex­pect­ed to make his can­di­da­cy of­fi­cial lat­er on Fri­day af­ter­noon, as he shares why he chose to re­turn to the po­lit­i­cal are­na.

The Pro­gres­sive Em­pow­er­ment Par­ty (PEP) has writ­ten to Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Stu­art Young seek­ing an ex­emp­tion for one of its prospec­tive can­di­dates stuck in the Unit­ed States.

On the eve of Nom­i­na­tion Day, the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress changed its mind and opt­ed for Rishi Tri­pathi in­stead of pre­vi­ous­ly an­nounced Ravi Rati­ram, to con­test the Cou­va North seat in the Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Peo­ples Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) can­di­date Win­ston “Gyp­sy” Pe­ters re­fused to com­ment on al­le­ga­tions of do­mes­tic vi­o­lence against him as he filed nom­i­na­tion pa­pers at the Re­turn­ing Of­fi­cer’s of­fice at Princes Town yes­ter­day.

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.