Both the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment and Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ votes in safe seats dropped in Mon­day’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion – in­clud­ing in the seats held by PNM leader Dr Kei­th Row­ley and UNC leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

The par­ty earned 13, 062 votes more than the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC), ac­cord­ing to the of­fi­cial pre­lim­i­nary re­sults re­leased by the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) yes­ter­day.

Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer Dr Roshan Paras­ram yes­ter­day pre­dict­ed a spike in COVID-19 cas­es due to the pub­lic’s re­fusal to ful­ly co­op­er­ate with the pub­lic health guide­lines aimed at pre­vent­ing its spread.

The Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) has tem­porar­i­ly closed it’s Siparia of­fice af­ter an em­ploy­ee was ex­posed to some­one who test­ed pos­i­tive for COVID-19.

It is with a heavy heart that the Ram­saran’s Dairy Prod­ucts fam­i­ly ad­dress­es be­low the re­cent dam­ag­ing and of­fen­sive com­ments post­ed on so­cial me­dia by a close fam­i­ly mem­ber of the own­ers of our or­ga­ni­za­tion.

A racist Face­book com­ment about the out­come of Mon­day’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion has led to a se­ries of reper­cus­sions and a boy­cott for lo­cal food man­u­fac­tur­er Ram­saran’s Dairy Prod­ucts.

Sev­er­al ma­jor food chain out­lets yes­ter­day pulled Ram­saran’s Dairy Prod­ucts from their shelves in re­sponse to a so­cial me­dia post by Naila Ram­saran, the daugh­ter of the com­pa­ny’s own­er, which com­pared Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment sup­port­ers to “cock­roach­es” and “loafers” in an ap­par­ent emo­tion­al re­sponse to the par­ty’s 22-19 vic­to­ry over the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress in Mon­day’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

In the midst of an ex­plo­sion of racial com­men­tary on so­cial me­dia in the wake of the 2020 Gen­er­al Elec­tion re­sult, an on­line pe­ti­tion for leg­is­la­tion against racism has been start­ed and is cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is crit­i­cis­ing the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) for push­ing a “dan­ger­ous” nar­ra­tive with its call for the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) re­count.

Af­ter 40 years in pol­i­tics, Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley ad­mit­ted pub­licly that he con­sid­ered not run­ning in the re­cent­ly con­clud­ed 2020 Gen­er­al Elec­tion.

Can­di­dates who bat­tled in mar­gin­al seats were among those to face the most pres­sure on Mon­day’s polling night, but for the big names who failed to hit the mark, what’s go­ing to be their next move? Some say while they may be step­ping back, they will not be step­ping out of the po­lit­i­cal are­na en­tire­ly.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) said while it is sat­is­fied with the ef­forts that have so far been made by the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) to san­i­tize and re­store schools that were used as polling sta­tions dur­ing Mon­day’s elec­tion – there are schools that have are yet to be cleaned.