UNC Alliance Rally in pictures

Kamla fights on
Appearing to throw down the gauntlet to the male-dominated leadership of the UNC Alliance, a bloodied, battered, bandaged but unbowed Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday stated defiantly that she would no longer crawl on her belly before anyone.

Kamla committed to UNC Alliance, T&T

Kamla: I won’t be kept down
Although passed over for the leadership of the UNC Alliance, Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar says she has no regrets over the sacrifices she made for the party…
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PNM Supporters braved the inclement weather for the PNM
Presentation of Candidates at Woodford Square – in pictures

PM: Oddest couple a political absurdity
Prime Minister Patrick Manning has described UNC Alliance leaders, Basdeo Panday and Jack Warner, as the oddest couple in the world…

Balisier closes ranks
PRIME Minister Patrick Manning was surely heartened by the huge turnout of supporters at the PNM’s presentation of candidates yesterday.
Manning’s speech, although it included some moments of passion, did not really excite the crowd. Even several verbal cues he tried to give to the crowd to cheer, such as saying that by his political rivals’ calculations the PNM crowd should number 150,000 people — did not work. Several times the crowd simply did not take up the opportunity he offered them to cheer for the particular point he was making. Even his hilarious attack on a theoretician with fuzzy ideas who would duck and run, failed to elicit the expected raucous laughs of PNMites, or even from his party officers and candidates onstage. “You need steady hands at the helm,” was an assertion that party members should have loudly cheered but was met with dead silence.
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Panday, Warner lead UNC Alliance
Jack Warner and Basdeo Panday will lead the UNC Alliance into the November 5 General Election. The announcement was made last night by both men following four hours of intense, closed-door discussions among members of the UNC Alliance leadership council at Emerald Plaza in St Augustine.

Bas, Jack to share Alliance leadership

It’s Bas and Jack!
Kamla loses race for UNC Alliance leadership

Panday’s re-trial stopped
In an amazing turnaround yesterday, the London-based Privy Council gave Basdeo Panday a chance to prove that the three integrity in public life charges brought against him were filed out of time. The Law Lords’ decision thus, also gave TT’s former PM a new lease on his political life as he won’t have to argue his case until next April.
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Sunday, September 30 2007

Diego Martin Central Mp Ken Valley has been rejected as a candidate by the PNM Screening Committee.

Sources said Prime Minister Patrick Manning in his capacity as Political Leader met with the Screening Committee on Friday evening, shortly after naming the election date and recommended to the Screening Committee that the Diego Martin Central constituency executive be instructed to search for a new nominee(s), from which to select a candidate. The Screening Committee’s decision- that the search continue for nominees — has not yet been communicated to the Diego Martin Central constituency executive. The search for a new candidate therefore has not yet started 33 days before the General Election. However sources said Manning had a candidate already lined up. Sources added that it would not be Foreign Affairs Minister Arnold Piggott, but a political neophite.
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POLLING DAY 5 weeks away
That’s the general election date which Prime Minister Patrick Manning finally unfolded from his “back pocket” at the end of the fifth and final session of the Parliament yesterday…

PM pulls Nov 5
The election date mystery is no more. Prime Minister Patrick Manning, yesterday dug deep into his back pocket and pulled out November 5 as the date for the General Election, ending one year of speculation.

Kamla: November fifth is judgment day

Dookeran: We are ready to rumble

‘Poll date a disrespect to Hindus’
Out of his back pocket the big announcement came as Prime Minister Patrick Manning yesterday announced the general election date–November 5…

EBC machinery kicks into gear

Trade unions: Settle with us first
Trade union representatives were yesterday thankful that Prime Minister Patrick Manning had ended the “cat and mouse game” by announcing November 5 as the election date. They are calling for the Government to settle outstanding negotiations.

Election clash for Muslims, Hindus

Ex-alderman tipped to replace Point Fortin MP

Kamla wants Bas, not Jack… to lead Alliance

Sat sends election warning to PM
The last time Prime Minister Patrick Manning called a general election before an East Indian festival, he lost to the opposition party…

Panday: I will die with my boots on

‘PM couldn’t wait’
Manning eyeing COP surge, says Ryan