Var­i­ous par­ties filed nom­i­na­tions for their can­di­dates from Port-of-Spain dis­tricts to make up the City Cor­po­ra­tion at the of­fice of the re­turn­ing of­fi­cer on Hen­ry Street for Bel­mont East, St Ann's Riv­er North, St James East St James West, Wood­brook and oth­ers.

But one po­lit­i­cal par­ty's pres­ence drowned-out the oth­ers.

The pave­ment was filled with PNM sup­port­ers who sang and cheered every time one of their can­di­dates came through the door of the EBC sta­tion.

“When PNM go march­ing home, when PNM goes march­ing home, well I would like to be in that num­ber, when PNM goes march­ing home,” PNM Sup­port­ers chant­ed.

Sit­ting PNM coun­cil­lor for Bel­mont East Nicole Young told Guardian Me­dia that one of the is­sues her dis­trict faces is the fluc­tu­a­tion in the wa­ter sup­ply. She said in the year that she has been coun­cil­lor she has worked to fix that prob­lem.

Young said she is al­so pas­sion­ate about work­ing with the youth and is look­ing for­ward to lo­cal gov­ern­ment re­form to con­tin­ue the work she has done in the Bel­mont com­mu­ni­ty thus far.

Can­di­date for St Ann’s Riv­er North Hillan More­an is al­so hope­ful for Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment re­form. He said he is well known in the area and has shown all the res­i­dents how much he cares for them.

“I know when there is some­one new in my dis­trict,” More­an said.

Port of Spain South MP Mar­lene Mc­Don­ald al­so made an ap­pear­ance and said as cam­paign man­ag­er she is aim­ing to win all 12 seats for this Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment elec­tion like they did for the last two.

Gath­ered in a small­er yel­low cir­cle low­er down the street was UNC sup­port­ers and can­di­dates. One such can­di­date was Denise Ann Robin­son of St Ann’s, Cas­cade, Mon Re­pos west who said one im­me­di­ate ini­tia­tive she would like to im­ple­ment is a skill bank.

“We have a lot of youths that are car­pen­ters, ma­sons but they are not cer­ti­fied,” she said

“We will cer­ti­fy them so they can go out there and get a prop­er job,” she con­tin­ued.

Robin­son said oth­er is­sues in­clude bad roads and poor wa­ter sup­ply.

And Mal­colm Em­manuel Can­di­date for St Barbs/Chi­napoo said he will keep knock­ing on the door of change un­til the peo­ple of the East Port-of-Spain Com­mu­ni­ty ac­cepts it. He said it’s time for the old­er folks who are PNM to step aside to give UNC a chance.

Al­so present was the po­lit­i­cal leader of Port-of-Spain Peo­ple's Move­ment Louis Lee Sing who had no sup­port­ers out­side for him, how­ev­er, some PNM sup­port­ers cheered him when he walked out the door.

Lee Sing said even though there was an is­sue with his can­di­dates due to hic­cups at the EBC he was able to screen good rep­re­sen­ta­tives just in time for nom­i­na­tion day.

The for­mer Port-of-Spain May­or said the city has lost its smile and one is­sue he would tack­le im­me­di­ate­ly if elect­ed would be the aban­doned build­ings in Port-of Spain.

We then asked him why he didn't do so dur­ing his time as May­or of the city? Lee Sing said when he got in­to of­fice there were so many things to do, he said in the 39-months he was in of­fice he ac­com­plished some, for ex­am­ple, the reengi­neer­ing of the King George Park.

Kendel Cadore the MSJ can­di­date for Beetham/Pic­ton told Guardian Me­dia that one of the main is­sues in his com­mu­ni­ty is mos­qui­toes.

“From 6 o'clock in the evening you can’t even lime with friends,” he said.

He was ac­com­pa­nied by Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the MSJ David Ab­du­lah who said he chose Cadore be­cause he is a good man and is from the area so he will know the is­sues first hand.