- 28 May, 2025
$B ELECTION SLUSH FUND
THE ruling People’s National Movement (PNM) is building a billion-dollar general election war chest.
Already some $500 million has been assigned to two State enterprises, which will dish out infrastructural projects over the next few months.
MARCELLE TO REPLACE ‘COAL POT’ SCOTLAND
KEITH Scotland, who two years ago said people should fight hardship by going back to coal pots, will not be the People’s National Movement’s (PNM) next general election candidate for Port of Spain South.
The ruling party is replacing incumbent Scotland with 29-year-old attorney Kareem Marcelle, who was recently appointed an alderman in the Port of Spain City Corporation.
ROWLEY’S AWARD DONOR TO BE PNM CANDIDATE
PORT OF SPAIN-born, United States-based academic Dr. Wayne Frederick is billed to be a People’s National Movement (PNM) candidate in the forthcoming general election.
Under Frederick’s leadership, the university gave Rowley an honorary doctorate in May 2023.
ROWLEY’S ELECTION ROADMAP
PRIME Minister Dr. Keith Rowley has devised a timeline for delivery on big-ticket items with the hope that they would propel his People’s National Movement (PNM) back into national office.
CABINET PRESSURE ON 3 MINISTERS
PRIME Minister Dr. Keith Rowley has turned the screws on three prominent Government Ministers.
The ministers are Fitzgerald Hinds, who leads National Security, Marvin Gonzales, head of the Public Utilities portfolio, and Rohan Sinanan, who is in charge of Works and Transport.
TURNCOAT TAKES A TUMBLE
MARCUS Girdharrie is probably experiencing the most wretched feeling of any local government election candidate.
DOES OWTU STILL HAVE POLITICAL CLOUT?
OILFIELDS Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU), once the most militant labour body in the region, has returned to the political arena in a big way.
NOW 3 INDIAN-AMERICANS VIE FOR US PRESIDENCY
In addition, Kamala Harris, whose mother Shyamala Gopalan Harris was born in India, is returning as the vice presidential candidate of incumbent president Democrat Joe Biden.
Singh, an engineer, follows former governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.
OBIKA AND PNM’S ‘CONTEMPT’ FOR AFRICAN ISSUES
TAHARQA means “young warrior,” and a leader by that name was a pharaoh in Egypt and a king in what is now called Sudan.
TURNCOAT POLITICIAN WHO SHARED CONFIDENTIAL FILE
THE Trinidad and Tobago political world is humming about a turncoat operative who passed on a confidential file from one major organisation to another.
