Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith says he in­tends to have a strong and vis­i­ble pres­ence of po­lice of­fi­cers across T&T to de­ter in­ci­dents of in­tim­i­da­tion, vot­er sup­pres­sion, bribery, or il­le­gal can­vass­ing on gen­er­al elec­tion day.

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ Cou­va North ex­ec­u­tive has made it clear that it’s sup­port­ing new can­di­date Ravi Rati­ram and is not part of the group lob­by­ing for out­go­ing MP Ra­mona Ram­di­al.

One da­ta an­a­lyst says a po­lit­i­cal par­ty's abil­i­ty to sway the un­de­cid­ed vot­ers in mar­gin­al seats, will hold the key to the out­come of the gen­er­al elec­tion.

UNC San Fer­nan­do West can­di­date Sean Sobers thinks PNM op­po­nent Faris Al- Rawi is a de­cent guy whose plate is too full to han­dle the seat— but Sobers says he in­tends to “make it re­al” in San Fer­nan­do West with plans in­clud­ing the first Gov­ern­ment Spe­cial Needs School.

The Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion has is­sued an of­fi­cial state­ment, re­fut­ing al­le­ga­tions made by the UNC’s can­di­date for Ch­agua­nas East, May­or of Ch­agua­nas Van­dana Mo­hit, that pri­vate da­ta of its clients is be­ing used by the PNM to aid in po­lit­i­cal can­vass­ing.

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.

Three Mus­lim or­gan­i­sa­tions have dis­tanced them­selves from claims that the Mus­lim com­mu­ni­ty in T&T are sup­port­ing the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) in the Au­gust 10 gen­er­al elec­tion.

Af­ter a long ab­sence from the po­lit­i­cal are­na, for­mer Peo­ples Na­tion­al Move­ment min­is­ter Pe­ter Tay­lor turned up the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) walk­a­bout in Moru­ga with his po­lit­i­cal guns trained at the Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley.

The Princes Town Con­stituen­cy Ex­ec­u­tive for the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) has come out in full sup­port of its in­cum­bent Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment, Bar­ry Padarath, who has been cho­sen to con­test the seat for the par­ty, once more, in the up­com­ing na­tion­al poll on Au­gust 10th.