The Op­po­si­tion has wel­comed Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s move to in­vite both Cari­com and the Com­mon­wealth to send elec­tion ob­servers to Trinidad and To­ba­go for the Au­gust 10 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Squat­ters liv­ing in En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas will be giv­en tenure for the land they are oc­cu­py­ing.

Squat­ters liv­ing in the Ch­agua­nas East con­stituen­cy of En­ter­prise are ex­pect­ed to get tenure for the land they are oc­cu­py­ing.

One of the mem­bers of the Bet­ter Unit­ed po­lit­i­cal coali­tion says while the group will not of­fer can­di­dates for all 41 elec­toral seats in the up­com­ing 2020 Gen­er­al Elec­tion, it still hopes to make an im­pact in the elec­tion and the Par­lia­ment.

Over­tures have been made by UNC leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to some re­ject­ed UNC in­cum­bents who might be brought in­to a fu­ture UNC Gov­ern­ment via the Sen­ate or oth­er­wise, UNC deputy leader David Lee has said.

It’s a four-way bat­tle for St Au­gus­tine so far af­ter Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) leader Car­olyn Seep­er­sad- Bachan yes­ter­day an­nounced she will con­test the St Au­gus­tine seat.

More elec­tions might be on the cards af­ter the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion as by-elec­tions may be­come pos­si­ble for re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tion seats if the four gen­er­al elec­tion can­di­dates who hold lo­cal gov­ern­ment seats win in the gen­er­al elec­tion.

Rack­eal Bis­soon, 24, who is con­test­ing the Ch­agua­nas West seat af­ter be­ing giv­en the nod by the PNM in ear­ly June, said dur­ing a walk­through of Or­chard Gar­dens, that Ch­agua­nas West was an area that ne­glect­ed by their UNC MP.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has ac­cused the gov­ern­ment of al­low­ing their sup­port­ers to en­ter the coun­try through “the back door” to vote.

Fuad Abu Bakr says he is con­test­ing the Port-of-Spain South seat un­der the New Na­tion­al Vi­sion (NNV) par­ty. He says even the PNM saw his po­ten­tial when they screened him for that seat and the NNV is well-poised to stage an up­set in the par­ty strong­hold. He says it’s un­for­tu­nate that the par­ty de­cid­ed to go with At­tor­ney Kei­th Scot­land, “be­cause he (Scot­land) will be on the los­ing end of an elec­tion bat­tle for Port-of-Spain South.”

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s D’Abadie O’Meara ex­ec­u­tive will to­day present six nom­i­nees to screen for the seat. They in­clude Ari­ma may­or Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian, a for­mer Ari­ma deputy may­or and oth­er pro­fes­sion­als—but no par­ty of­fi­cials.

Sev­er­al out­go­ing Op­po­si­tion Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) MPs have thanked con­stituents and bid them farewell.