The new Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment Cab­i­net is ex­pect­ed to be sworn in on Fri­day, par­ty sources have in­di­cat­ed.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Pub­lic Re­la­tions Of­fi­cer, Lau­rel Leza­ma-Lee Sing says there were re­ports from the Barataria/San Juan con­stituen­cy on polling day that vot­ers were be­ing of­fered $1000 to change their votes.

Chief Elec­tions Of­fi­cer Fern Nar­cis-Scope said yes­ter­day that the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) had re­ceived six re­quests for re­counts in mar­gin­al con­stituen­cies.

The Pe­nal Debe Cham­ber of Com­merce has ex­tend­ed con­grat­u­la­tions to the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment on its vic­to­ry in Mon­day’s Gen­er­al elec­tion.

The re­count of bal­lot box­es in the San Fer­nan­do West, St Joseph and To­co/San­gre Grande seats start­ed yes­ter­day, even as the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) an­nounced it was com­pil­ing a list of al­leged vot­er ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties to take to the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC).

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment will par­tic­i­pate in any re­count the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress wants in any seat - but it won’t change the Gen­er­al Elec­tion re­sults, says PNM gen­er­al sec­re­tary Fos­ter Cum­mings.

     – Joe Biden, the pre­sump­tive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee, has se­lect­ed Ka­mala Har­ris as his run­ning mate.

Shenell Charles, 18, who was re­port­ed miss­ing on Au­gust 9th has been found.
She went to the Ari­ma Po­lice Sta­tion and in­di­cat­ed that she was at the home of a friend.

Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith has com­mend­ed all po­lice of­fi­cers for what he de­scribed as their ex­em­plary and pro­fes­sion­al con­duct dur­ing Mon­day’s gen­er­al elec­tion.

The coun­try has seen a 25 per­cent drop in crime this year, with 64 few­er mur­ders oc­cur­ring, when com­pared with trends in 2019.

A re­count for the San Fer­nan­do West seat will take place in less than two hours at the of­fice of the Re­turn­ing Of­fi­cer at Cipero Street, San Fer­nan­do. 

The Elec­tion and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) has re­ceived of­fi­cial re­quests for re­counts in six con­stituen­cies af­ter Mon­day’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion.