Chief Elec­tion Of­fi­cer, Fern Nar­cis-Scope, says the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC) has re­ceived sev­er­al re­quests for re­counts in mar­gin­al con­stituen­cies.

The in­ci­dent took place rough­ly one year ago on Au­gust 6th 2019.
Stephon King was ar­rest­ed on Au­gust 6th 2020.

The Min­istry of Health has an­nounced 14 new COVID cas­es, but stress­es that they cov­er the pe­ri­od Au­gust 7th to Au­gust 11th, 2020.

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) Es­mond Forde re­tained the Tu­na­puna con­stituen­cy in this year’s Gen­er­al Elec­tion with a to­tal of 9,409 votes. How­ev­er, in 2015 Forde had ce­ment­ed his win with a wider mar­gin and a to­tal of 11, 228 votes against UNC’s can­di­date Wayne Munroe who got 7,613 votes.

Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment, 22, Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress, 19 - but the UNC’s not con­ced­ing

Min­utes af­ter de­clar­ing that St Au­gus­tine had been won by the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) last evening, Deputy Po­lit­i­cal Leader Khadi­jah Ameen warned her burgess­es that while the first leg of the bat­tle had been won, the hard work was now about to be­gin.

The first or­der of busi­ness for the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment Gov­ern­ment will be the 2021 Bud­get, Prime Min­is­ter Kei­th Row­ley said last night.

Fos­ter Cum­mings, the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) can­di­date, is the new MP for the La Hor­quet­ta/Tal­paro con­stituen­cy.

Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the Pro­gres­sive Em­pow­er­ment Par­ty (PEP) Phillip Ed­ward Alexan­der has ac­cept­ed re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for the par­ty’s un­der­whelm­ing re­sults at the polls in T&T’s gen­er­al elec­tion and has con­firmed his de­ci­sion to step down from the par­ty’s lead­er­ship, a promise which he an­nounced be­fore this gen­er­al elec­tion.

New­ly elect­ed Barataria/San Juan MP Sad­dam Ho­sein says that his con­stituen­cy should no longer be con­sid­ered mar­gin­al. 

For the sec­ond con­sec­u­tive Gen­er­al Elec­tion, the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) won the two To­ba­go seats - East and West.

PNM can­di­date for St Joseph and Health Min­is­ter Ter­rence Deyals­ingh was de­clared the win­ner of the St Joseph seat last night, re­turn­ing for a sec­ond term in of­fice as MP for the keen­ly con­test­ed mar­gin­al seat.