Politics

Politics tamfitronics Gail Alexan­derSe­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porterThere are ap­prox­i­mate­ly four ex­pres­sions of in­ter­est from in­di­vid­u­als to con­test the Barataria/San Juan seat for the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) in the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion, in­clud­ing a promi­nent name in the Mus­lim com­mu­ni­ty and in pol­i­tics.This was con­firmed by PNM of­fi­cials ahead of Thurs­day’s dead­line for sub­mis­sion of nom­i­nees from nine con­stituen­cies.In June, PNM leader Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley man­dat­ed par­ty units from the nine ar­eas, which are cur­rent­ly held by the Op­po­si­tion, to start seek­ing nom­i­nees. They were sub­se­quent­ly giv­en an Au­gust 15 dead­line by which to present nom­i­nees’ names.A PNM state­ment yes­ter­day con­firmed the nom­i­na­tion pe­ri­od ends at 4 pm on Thurs­day. Screen­ing will be­gin short­ly there­after for the nom­i­nees for the nine con­stituen­cies. The PNM stat­ed that it “looks for­ward to field­ing 41 can­di­dates in...