Act­ing Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has vowed to bring leg­is­la­tion to re­form so­cial me­dia should the PNM win the next gen­er­al elec­tion.

Once de­scribed as the right-hand man of La Hor­quet­ta/Tal­paro MP Fos­ter Cum­mings, Phillip Watts emerged as the MP’s po­lit­i­cal ri­val as he walked the con­stituen­cy wear­ing a dark blue jer­sey with yel­low stripes and the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress lo­go on his chest.

When it comes to the tran­si­tion of gov­er­nance in Trinidad and To­ba­go, there’s been no short­age of con­tro­ver­sy, whether it’s be­ing ap­point­ed prime min­is­ter due to the death of a sit­ting leader, or through a snap elec­tion, the cit­i­zens of T&T have seen it all. Or have we?

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says the par­ty will not be desta­bilised by peo­ple who have since turned their backs on it in “or­ches­trat­ed res­ig­na­tions.”

Con­stituents of Ch­agua­nas West are seem­ing­ly di­vid­ed by the de­ci­sion of their MP, Di­nesh Ram­bal­ly, to with­draw his can­di­da­cy from the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion.

Ch­agua­nas West MP Di­nesh Ram­bal­ly has with­drawn his can­di­da­cy for Ch­agua­nas West in the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion, cit­ing con­cerns over what he called the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ (UNC) in­creas­ing­ly “di­vi­sive racial rhetoric as its cen­tral mes­sage.” He re­mains a mem­ber of the par­ty though.

Ch­agua­nas West MP Di­nesh Ram­bal­ly has with­drawn his can­di­da­cy for Ch­agua­nas West in the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion, cit­ing con­cerns over what he called the UNC's in­creas­ing­ly "di­vi­sive racial rhetoric as its cen­tral mes­sage." He re­mains a mem­ber of the par­ty though.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says her par­ty will not ho­n­our any agree­ment the cur­rent Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Gov­ern­ment en­ters in­to re­gard­ing the Pointe-a-Pierre re­fin­ery—and she says Gov­ern­ment’s “col­lud­ing” with Nico­las Maduro’s Venezuela regime is the “worst Bend Over” in T&T’s en­er­gy sec­tor his­to­ry.

Two po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tists sug­gest that cit­i­zens could be head­ing to the polls in Au­gust, as it may be the most strate­gic time for prime min­is­ter-des­ig­nate Stu­art Young to call the gen­er­al elec­tion.

The let­ter from the 21 Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) MPs who sup­port En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young’s el­e­va­tion to prime min­is­ter will come in­to play af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley sub­mits his let­ter of res­ig­na­tion to Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo on March 16.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has heaped scorn on the tenure of out­go­ing Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley, ac­cus­ing him of pre­sid­ing over a crime epi­dem­ic that cost thou­sands of in­no­cent lives, the col­lapse of the econ­o­my and over­all na­tion­al hard­ship.

Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) leader Gary Grif­fith has stressed that his par­ty wasn’t in­volved in invit­ing UNC leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to a March 12 meet­ing be­ing held by NTA, HOPE and Com­mu­ni­ty Ref­or­ma­tion Net­work. The three groups have formed the Pro­gres­sive Al­liance coali­tion.