In­cum­bent UNC Princes Town MP Bar­ry Padarath is re­turn­ing home a lit­tle lat­er this week than ini­tial­ly planned—and he isn’t wor­ried about fall­out from re­cent gen­er­al elec­tion can­di­date se­lec­tion since he says the par­ty has ma­tured.

Mo­hit was among 10 new­com­ers to the po­lit­i­cal are­na who were giv­en the nod by the UNC leader and the screen­ing com­mit­tee to con­test the Au­gust 10 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Ari­ma may­or Lisa Mor­ris-Ju­lian is now the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) D’Abadie O’Meara can­di­date af­ter the screen­ing team se­lect­ed her yes­ter­day.

At the 2015 gen­er­al elec­tion, over 17,000 vot­ers from the con­stituen­cy of Point Fortin took to the polls.

Busi­ness­man In­shan Ish­mael is gear­ing up to con­test the St Au­gus­tine seat as an in­de­pen­dent can­di­date, as he called on con­stituents to re­ject Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) can­di­date Khadi­jah Ameen who he de­scribed as a non-per­former.

Sev­er­al busi­ness lead­ers have praised out­go­ing UNC MP Dr Bhoe Tewarie for his work in the busi­ness field and one has blunt­ly lament­ed the way Tewarie was “kicked out” of the UNC can­di­date line­up.

Chief Elec­tions Of­fi­cer of the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) Fern Nar­cis-Scope says there is no law re­quir­ing peo­ple to wear a mask to vote dur­ing the gen­er­al elec­tion on Au­gust 10.

The Move­ment for Na­tion­al De­vel­op­ment, head­ed by for­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Garvin Nicholas, is promis­ing to make a dent in all three Diego Mar­tin con­stituen­cies.

In­di­vid­u­als in quar­an­tine will be able to file their bal­lots come the Au­gust 10 gen­er­al elec­tions. And Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress Princes Town can­di­date Bar­ry Padarath will be al­lowed to file his nom­i­na­tions via an elec­tion agent while he spends 14-days in quar­an­tine.

With the 2020 Gen­er­al Elec­tions just 35 days away, yet an­oth­er par­ty has con­firmed its par­tic­i­pa­tion.

Po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tists say Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley act­ed with­in the law by de­clar­ing Au­gust 10 as the gen­er­al elec­tion date.

Two strikes and Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment MP An­cil An­toine has now been dropped as the par­ty’s D’Abadie O’Meara can­di­date be­cause of in­sen­si­tive and ob­jec­tion­able state­ments he made about the Unit­ed States dur­ing a po­lit­i­cal meet­ing on Sat­ur­day.