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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

PNM picks school teacher to contest Moruga seat

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Akash Samaroo
264 days ago
20240926
Secondary school teacher Lisa Atwater weeps as she leaves Balisier House after being selected to contest the Moruga/Tableland seat by the PNM yesterday. At right is former UNC MP Colin Partap.

Secondary school teacher Lisa Atwater weeps as she leaves Balisier House after being selected to contest the Moruga/Tableland seat by the PNM yesterday. At right is former UNC MP Colin Partap.

ANISTO ALVES

Se­nior Re­porter

akash.sama­roo@cnc3.co.tt

Sec­ondary school teacher Lisa At­wa­ter is the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s pick to con­test the Moru­ga/Table­land con­stituen­cy in the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tions, a seat the rul­ing par­ty des­per­ate­ly wants to wres­tle away from the con­trol of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress.

The cur­rent MP is the UNC’s Michelle Ben­jamin.

At­wa­ter was cho­sen yes­ter­day evening af­ter fac­ing the par­ty’s screen­ing com­mit­tee at Bal­isi­er House in Port-of-Spain.

She was one of sev­er­al peo­ple con­sid­ered for the seat that an­a­lysts have pro­ject­ed to be one of the mar­gin­als in the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tions.

At­wa­ter, who is the Dean of Dis­ci­pline at the Moru­ga Sec­ondary School, came to the PNM’s head­quar­ters with the biggest en­tourage of any of the po­ten­tial can­di­dates. Sup­port­ers came with ban­ners and red t-shirts with her name em­bla­zoned on them.

The Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress won the seat in 2020 with a mar­gin of 1,072 votes.

The PNM se­cured vic­to­ry in the Lengua/In­di­an Walk dis­trict of the con­stituen­cy in the last Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Elec­tion.

The oth­er con­stituen­cies which can­di­dates were screened for last evening were Cu­mu­to/Man­zanil­la and Fyz­abad. Both are al­so held cur­rent­ly by the UNC.


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