The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) can­di­date for Aranguez/St Joseph is fac­ing crit­i­cism from his com­peti­tors over his cel­e­bra­to­ry style of fil­ing his nom­i­na­tion pa­pers with ac­cu­sa­tions that he dis­turbed schools in the area, where pupils are prepar­ing for the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am­i­na­tions. 

Clash­es marred the nom­i­na­tion day process in To­ba­go as po­lit­i­cal can­di­dates squared off, forc­ing po­lice to call in re­in­force­ments.

Re­sum­ing hang­ings in T&T is some­thing the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress can once again con­sid­er if it is elect­ed to of­fice. And un­der a UNC coali­tion gov­ern­ment, a new com­mis­sion­er of po­lice will be ap­point­ed.

For­mer Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) mem­ber and at­tor­ney Lar­ry Lal­la chant­ed, “Great is the PNM,” as he ac­com­pa­nied the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) can­di­date for Ch­agua­nas East, Richie Sookhai, who filed his Gen­er­al Elec­tion nom­i­na­tion pa­pers yes­ter­day.

Is­sues of crime and pub­lic safe­ty were in full fo­cus for can­di­dates vy­ing for Tu­na­puna, as they shared their vi­sion and ex­pec­ta­tions af­ter fil­ing nom­i­na­tion pa­pers for the Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

There was a Car­ni­val-like at­mos­phere in Bel­mont yes­ter­day, as both Port-of-Spain North/St Ann's West can­di­date Stu­art Young and Pro­gres­sive Em­pow­er­ment Par­ty (PEP) leader Phillip Ed­ward Alexan­der made their way to Bel­mont Sec­ondary School to file their nom­i­na­tion pa­pers.

It was a smooth process yes­ter­day for can­di­dates fil­ing their gen­er­al elec­tion nom­i­na­tion pa­pers for Cu­mu­to/Man­zanil­la and To­co/San­gre Grande yes­ter­day as they all re­port­ed no is­sues on the day.

Elec­tion can­di­dates for the Port-of-Spain South con­stituen­cy all be­lieve they have what it takes to un­seat in­cum­bent Kei­th Scot­land.

The Law As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (LATT) has sought in­de­pen­dent ad­vice on al­le­ga­tions over the con­duct of Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie and for­mer chief mag­is­trate and now High Court Judge Mar­cia Ay­ers-Cae­sar in a case re­lat­ed to her short-lived ju­di­cial ap­point­ment in 2017.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s can­di­date for La Hor­quet­ta/Tal­paro Fos­ter Cum­mings is call­ing for a clean elec­tion cam­paign af­ter one of his bill­boards in La Hor­quet­ta was de­stroyed.

Two Venezue­lan men were killed by South­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force of­fi­cers yes­ter­day, af­ter they al­leged­ly con­front­ed law­men with a gun and a Chi­nese chop­per dur­ing an al­leged weapons deal.

A teenag­er, who ad­mit­ted to killing a home­less man af­ter he (the man) at­tacked him and his friend al­most five years ago, is set to be re­leased in a few months.