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.

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.