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).

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.