Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the Na­tion­al Coali­tion for Trans­for­ma­tion (NCT) Nali­ni Di­al be­lieves the Pa­tri­ot­ic Front head­ed by Mick­ela Pan­day should have had its ducks in a row be­fore it an­nounced its in­ten­tion to con­test the 2020 gen­er­al elec­tion.

There was an al­most Car­ni­val-es­que gath­er­ing along Bound­ary Road and Bound­ary ex­ten­sion as sup­port­ers of UNC can­di­dates Sad­dam Ho­sein and Al­hoy Hunt host­ed a joint walk­a­bout in the area yes­ter­day.

Four ma­jor can­di­dates for the Diego Mar­tin Cen­tral con­stituen­cy spoke to Guardian Me­dia about their plans for the de­vel­op­ment of the area if elect­ed in the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion.

The Op­po­si­tion UNC’s le­gal team is en­sur­ing that all of its can­di­dates’ doc­u­ments and sta­tus com­ply with the law for to­mor­row’s Nom­i­na­tion Day ex­er­cise—and that in­cludes the UNC’s Tu­na­puna can­di­date David Nakhid.

That’s what many peo­ple went to the Elec­tion and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion’s (EBC) Port-of-Spain of­fice to do in the last nine days of the vot­er reg­is­tra­tion pe­ri­od, EBC of­fi­cials con­firmed yes­ter­day.

Christlyn Moore, leader of the To­ba­go For­wards (TF), now af­fil­i­at­ed with One To­ba­go Voice (OTV), has blamed the leader of the Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) Wat­son Duke for fail­ure to unite the par­ties. In re­sponse, Duke throws shade at OTV call­ing them “po­lit­i­cal­ly dead.”

De­spite the chal­lenges in the en­er­gy sec­tor due to COVID-19, En­er­gy Min­is­ter Franklin Khan says the sec­tor is not dead in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Christlyn Moore, leader of the To­ba­go For­wards (TF)—now af­fil­i­at­ed with One To­ba­go Voice (OTV)—blames the leader of the Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP), Wat­son Duke, for fail­ure to unite the par­ties.

The Pa­tri­ot­ic Front (PF) is yet to de­cide whether it will throw its sup­port be­hind oth­er po­lit­i­cal par­ties con­test­ing the up­com­ing Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Both the cur­rent Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Ma­yaro, and a can­di­date from an­oth­er po­lit­i­cal par­ty hop­ing to win the seat in the up­com­ing Gen­er­al Elec­tion, agree and ad­mit that un­em­ploy­ment is one of the ma­jor is­sues af­fect­ing cit­i­zens in the con­stituen­cy.

Fish­er­men demon­strat­ed out­side the Or­ange Val­ley fish mar­ket on Wednes­day, call­ing for the re­turn of Ra­mona Ram­di­al as the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ (UNC) can­di­date for Cou­va North.

Weeks af­ter an­nounc­ing they would be con­test­ing all seats in the Au­gust 10 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, the Pa­tri­ot­ic Front yes­ter­day pulled out say­ing they did not have enough time to mo­bilise them­selves.