PNM TO SCREEN FOR LAV. EAST MORVANT & LA BREA

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The PNM will be conducting the screening of prospective candidates for two constituencies on Thursday 23rd January, as it seeks to add to its present tally of 32-approved candidates thus far.  Among those set to be screened on Thursday are a Government Minster and a Local Government councillor.  Juhel Browne reports.

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00:00TV6 News has been informed that Tourism Minister and Government Senator Randall Mitchell will

00:06be going before the PNM's Screening Committee on Thursday as it seeks a prospective candidate

00:11for the La Bré constituency in the general election due this year.

00:16The PNM announced on Wednesday that it will conduct its screening exercise for that constituency

00:22at the party's Balize House headquarters in Port of Spain on Thursday but did not identify

00:27the nominees by name.

00:29Labour Minister Stephen McClatchy will not be contesting the La Bré constituency he

00:34won for the PNM in the 2020 general election.

00:37TV6 News has been informed that one other nominee set to go before the Screening Committee

00:43for La Bré is the party's constituency chairman, Jermaine Payot.

00:48The PNM also announced on Wednesday five nominees will be screened for Lavatille-East-Mauva.

00:55Minister in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development Adrian Lyons has been the MP for

00:59Lavatille-East-Mauva since he first won the seat for the PNM in the 2015 general election.

01:06On December 3rd of last year, the Express newspaper reported Minister Lyons would not

01:11be offering himself to be a candidate for the PNM due to some very serious personal

01:16issues that affect him and his family.

01:19The PNM said on Wednesday that five persons from the Lavatille-East-Mauva constituency

01:24have received nominations and will appear before the party's Screening Committee on

01:28Thursday but did not identify them by name.

01:32TV6 News has been informed that among the five nominees are former Temporary Government

01:36Senator Dr. Jeremy Innes, San Juan-Lavatille Regional Corporation Councillor Junior Saint-Hilaire

01:44and Director of Simpson's Funeral Home David Simpson.

01:48The PNM's Screening Committee is chaired by the political leader of the party, Prime

01:51Minister Dr. Keith Rowley, who has said he will not be seeking re-election this year

01:57and plans to resign as Prime Minister before the end of the term.

02:01The PNM is yet to announce when it will screen prospective candidates for De Gaulle-Martin

02:05West, which has been represented by Dr. Rowley for over three decades.

02:10However, businessman Hans De Veens is the reported front-runner.

02:15The PNM is also set to select a candidate for Dabadie O'Meara following the tragic

02:19death of former Minister Lisa Morrish-Julian and two of her children in a fire at her home

02:24in December of last year.

02:27Jewel Brown, TV6 News.

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