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Saturday, July 26, 2025

PNM's Esmond Forde reports smooth sailing in Tunapuna

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Kyron Regis
1811 days ago
20200810
PNM Candidate for Tunapuna Esmond Forde shows his stained finger after voting

PNM Candidate for Tunapuna Esmond Forde shows his stained finger after voting

Janelle Bernard

KY­RON REG­IS

ky­ron.reg­is@guardian.co.tt

PNM can­di­date for Tu­na­puna Es­mond Forde has said that there was no re­al dif­fi­cul­ty this morn­ing about the vot­ing process at the St. Mary’s An­gli­can Pri­ma­ry School in Tacarigua.

In an in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia Ltd (GML) Forde said: “No one left, no one made noise.” Nonethe­less, Forde al­lud­ed to a very long line.

De­scrib­ing the process he said: “When I came out this morn­ing I saw one long line, but then there are four polling di­vi­sions sit­u­at­ed in this school but they did not sep­a­rate each line, there­fore the line was run­ning all along the Main Road.”

Ac­cord­ing to Forde, it was on­ly af­ter of­fi­cials rec­og­nized the length of the line that the po­lice of­fi­cers and the Elec­tion and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) agents de­cid­ed that they were go­ing to sep­a­rate the long line in­to four lines, which short­ened the en­tire process.

Forde likened the process on the in­side of the school to any oth­er gen­er­al or lo­cal gov­ern­ment elec­tion ex­cept for so­cial dis­tanc­ing and san­i­tiz­ing.

He added: “The process ba­si­cal­ly was just like any oth­er elec­tion, the on­ly dif­fer­ence is that I was san­i­tized be­fore I en­tered the room and then we have to keep our lil’ so­cial dis­tanc­ing and move up ac­cord­ing­ly.”

Re­gard­ing the health pro­to­cols and guide­lines be­ing ob­served, Forde said that as far as he was con­cerned, every­one had on their masks.

Ac­cord­ing to da­ta from the EBC on all na­tion­al elec­tions held since the start of the 21st cen­tu­ry, the po­lit­i­cal par­ty that wins Tu­na­puna nor­mal­ly wins the gen­er­al elec­tion.

Since 2000 the po­lit­i­cal par­ty that won the Tu­na­puna con­stituen­cy even­tu­al­ly went on to win the Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Cur­rent­ly, Forde is stacked against UNC Can­di­date David Nakhid, Pro­gres­sive Em­pow­er­ment Par­ty (PEP) con­tender Mau­rice Downes and Trinidad Hu­man­i­ty Cam­paign (THC) can­di­date Mar­cus Ramkissoon.


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