Ch­agua­nas May­or Faaiq Mo­hammed says he is sup­port­ive of the Cen­tral bor­ough pos­si­bly at­tain­ing city sta­tus, not­ing that such a ti­tle was fit­ting as the com­mu­ni­ty has grown in terms of size and con­tri­bu­tion to na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les yes­ter­day ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of try­ing to “steal an elec­tion” by re­draw­ing mu­nic­i­pal bound­aries, de­scrib­ing its plan to add three cor­po­ra­tions in Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) strong­holds and re­duce the ge­o­graph­i­cal size of three Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM)-con­trolled cor­po­ra­tions as “un­be­liev­able and un­ac­cept­able.”

Two days af­ter re­sign­ing as Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) To­ba­go Coun­cil chair­man and re­nounc­ing her mem­ber­ship, Nicole Hen­ry-Wal­dron has changed her mind. In a let­ter to PNM gen­er­al sec­re­tary Fos­ter Cum­mings, Hen­ry-Wal­dron said up­on re­flec­tion, she has de­cid­ed to con­tin­ue con­tribut­ing to the par­ty and to the de­vel­op­ment of the coun­try.

The Court of Ap­peal has resched­uled the hear­ing in the mat­ter in­volv­ing Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing Phillip Alexan­der and Pa­tri­ot­ic Front po­lit­i­cal leader Mick­ela Pan­day, af­ter an ob­jec­tion was raised to the pro­ceed­ings be­ing livestreamed.