Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress can­di­date for San Fer­nan­do West Sean Sobers will kick off his com­mu­ni­ty foot­ball event to­day at Na­pari­ma Col­lege Grounds in San Fer­nan­do. Sobers, how­ev­er, as­sured that prop­er pro­to­cols in keep­ing with the Min­istry of Health guide­lines will be en­forced.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s call for po­lit­i­cal sides op­posed to the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) to join with her par­ty is a con­cept of “uni­ty” has come too late to be trust­ed as sin­cere, af­ter the UNC lead­er­ship re­ject­ed that call from its MPs in 2019.

Chair­man of One To­ba­go Voice (OTV) steer­ing com­mit­tee, Ho­choy Charles, says OTV is back­ing the Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) To­ba­go West can­di­date, Tashia Grace Bur­ris.

The Pro­gres­sive Em­pow­er­ment Par­ty (PEP) has writ­ten to Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Stu­art Young seek­ing an ex­emp­tion for one of its prospec­tive can­di­dates stuck in the Unit­ed States.

On the eve of Nom­i­na­tion Day, the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress changed its mind and opt­ed for Rishi Tri­pathi in­stead of pre­vi­ous­ly an­nounced Ravi Rati­ram, to con­test the Cou­va North seat in the Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Jack Warn­er is back in T&T pol­i­tics and is ex­pect­ed to make his can­di­da­cy of­fi­cial lat­er on Fri­day af­ter­noon, as he shares why he chose to re­turn to the po­lit­i­cal are­na.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress leader Kam­la Per­sad Bisses­sar SC is mak­ing it clear that Ravi Rati­ram re­mains the par­ty’s can­di­date for Cou­va North.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has ac­cused Op­po­si­tion leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of wag­ing an­oth­er racial­ly-mo­ti­vat­ed cam­paign, af­ter the lat­ter ap­peared to at­tack his race yet again dur­ing a vir­tu­al meet­ing on Thurs­day night.

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr Win­ford James says Op­po­si­tion leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s racial­ly-tinged at­tack against Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley will un­doubt­ed­ly have reper­cus­sions dur­ing the Gen­er­al Elec­tion cam­paign.

Ju­bi­lant cel­e­bra­tions on Nom­i­na­tion Day for one po­lit­i­cal par­ty were near­ly eclipsed over re­ports that a can­di­date had been re­placed af­ter al­le­ga­tions that a dark cloud was hang­ing over his head.

The race for Tu­na­puna be­gan yes­ter­day, with Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress can­di­date David Nahkid out­pac­ing the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s Es­mond Forde to the re­turn­ing of­fi­cer’s of­fice at the El Do­ra­do Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre to file nom­i­na­tion pa­pers.

A to­tal of eight can­di­dates sealed their bids to con­test the Au­gust 10 gen­er­al elec­tion af­ter they filed their nom­i­na­tion pa­pers on Fri­day. Three can­di­dates will con­test the To­ba­go East Con­stituen­cy, while five are eye­ing the To­ba­go West seat.