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.
Bissessar: I remain UNC
Kamla stays with UNC
Even as members of Congress of the People (COP) continue calling for Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar to join them, she says she is staying with the UNC…
Kamla’s ‘special role’ ….. President of T&T
PNM candidates for November 5 general election
32 new faces on the slate
The new face of the PNM was presented yesterday.
COP candidates for November 5 general election
Hinds: Some supporters not voting
PNM Political Leader Patrick Manning embraced rejected parliamentarian Fitzgerald Hinds yesterday when he and his security detail briefly went from Woodford Square to City Hall.
Rain didn’t stop the party
thousands of People’s National Movement (PNM) supporters turned out at Woodford Square, Port of Spain, yesterday for the party’s presentation of its candidates.
Achong considers Political future
Outgoing Point Fortin MP Larry Achong is on the brink of resigning from the ruling People’s National Movement…
Anand steals the show
The man who claimed that every political party wanted him, Anand Ramlogan, stole the show at yesterday’s Congress of the People rally where Marlene Coudray confirmed her candidacy and Prakash Ramadhar said good-bye to the UNC.
COP names its 38 candidates
“I have it in my back pocket, I go take it out when I think that it is right,” said Dookeran, much to the delight of the crowd of several thousands.
Coudray states her position
Weeks of political speculation were put to rest yesterday when Marlene Coudray, the companion of outgoing PNM Point Fortin MP Larry Achong was announced as a candidate for the upcoming November 5 election…
8 lawyers, former ACP join COP slate
Fight far from over, says Valley
Trade and Industry Minister Kenneth Valley’s fight to represent the People’s National Movement (PNM) in Diego Martin Central is far from over even though the new candidate was presented by the party yesterday.