Steady stream at polling Stations: Election Day in TnT

Polling day reports indicate a steady stream of voters as the people of Trinidad and Tobago vote in general elections today.

Some 1,099,205 electors will vote for 41 representatives to the House of Parliament.  Polling stations opened at 6:00 a.m. and close at 6:00 pm.

A twelve member CARICOM Elections Observation Mission is monitoring today’s voting process and  will issue a Preliminary Statement based on its observations to be followed later by a full report to CARICOM Secretary-General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque.

The CARICOM Observation Mission is headed by Mr. Orrette Fisher, Director of Elections, Electoral Commission of Jamaica. He is assisted by the Deputy Chief of Mission, Ms. Josephine Tamai, Chief Elections Officer, Department of Elections and Boundaries of Belize. The other members of the Mission include experts in Electoral Management and Administration from Barbados, The Bahamas, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Suriname. They are accompanied by a two-member CARICOM Secretariat Support team.