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

Two teenagers have been ar­rest­ed for pos­ses­sion of a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion.
Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, act­ing on in­for­ma­tion, of­fi­cers of the West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force (WDTF) mount­ed a sur­veil­lance op­er­a­tion dur­ing the hours of 12 noon and 4:00 pm where they ob­served the duo parad­ing with a firearm.

The Min­istry of Health pro­vides the fol­low­ing clin­i­cal up­date as of the morn­ing of Sun­day 5th Ju­ly, 2020:

ANSA Mer­chant Bank, a mem­ber of the ANSA McAL Group, part­nered with the Ch­agua­nas Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion on Fri­day to dis­trib­ute ham­pers to 50 needy peo­ple and fam­i­lies through­out the bor­ough. May­or Van­dana Mo­hit said the move by the ANSA McAL group was most wel­comed since many peo­ple have had lit­tle to eat due to the lock­down as a re­sult of the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic. Mo­hit said peo­ple are still feel­ing the brunt of COVID-19 even though we have been able to flat­ten the curve in T&T. "We still have per­sons who are in need, sin­gle moth­ers, per­sons who have lost their jobs, fam­i­lies who have many chil­dren and can­not af­ford to look af­ter them at this point," she said.

Of­fi­cials with­in the TTPS have un­cov­ered an al­leged plot to kill Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith, Supt Roger Alexan­der and mem­bers of the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Re­sponse Team (SORT).

Po­lit­i­cal par­ties are hus­tling! The rul­ing Peo­ples’ Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) and PNM and Op­po­si­tion Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) leapt in­to high elec­tion prepa­ra­tion gear on Sat­ur­day af­ter the Au­gust 10 elec­tion date was an­nounced last Fri­day. Prime Min­is­ter Kei­th Row­ley an­nounced the elec­tion date dur­ing the Par­lia­ment sit­ting. Par­lia­ment was dis­solved at mid­night.

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) in­cum­bent for Princes Town Bar­ry Padarath has com­plet­ed and filed the fi­nal doc­u­ments re­quired to re­turn home and hopes to be back in the coun­try on Wednes­day.

A more ef­fi­cient tax col­lec­tion sys­tem is com­ing says Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley. Speak­ing at the open­ing of the Point Fortin Area Hos­pi­tal on Sat­ur­day, Row­ley said now that en­er­gy prices are at an all-time low, the Gov­ern­ment must re­ly on an ef­fi­cient tax col­lec­tion sys­tem to find funds to run the coun­try in the fu­ture.

The health pro­to­cols for the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion will be sim­i­lar to the pre-COVID-19 guide­lines ac­cord­ing to the Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer, Dr Roshan Paras­ram.

"The po­lice are our friends, they are our pro­tec­tors." Urg­ing the pub­lic to re­spect and co­op­er­ate with law en­force­ment of­fi­cials as their job is to pro­tect and serve, the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress's (UNC) can­di­date for Tu­na­puna David Nakhid has de­scribed it as iron­ic that these sit­u­a­tions were emerg­ing in some of the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) strong­holds.

As T&T read­ies it­self for the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion cam­paign, Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith is as­sur­ing the pub­lic that the TTPS will re­main on full alert "to pre­vent any sub­ver­sive el­e­ment from at­tempt­ing to af­fect our democ­ra­cy."

The Barataria/San Juan con­stituen­cy, with 25,622 reg­is­tered vot­ers, is con­sid­ered to be a mar­gin­al con­stituen­cy, with vot­ers of­ten shift­ing loy­al­ties be­tween the two ma­jor po­lit­i­cal par­ties.