While the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) calls for in­de­pen­dent in­ter­na­tion­al elec­tion ob­servers for next month’s Gen­er­al Elec­tions, the Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA) and HOPE be­lieve Cari­com’s pres­ence will suf­fice.

Cari­com has ac­cept­ed T&T’s re­quest for an ob­serv­er mis­sion in Jan­u­ary.

How­ev­er, Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, in a let­ter to Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young, has raised con­cerns about po­ten­tial con­flicts of in­ter­est. She cit­ed the in­volve­ment of Cari­com’s As­sis­tant Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al Eliz­a­beth Solomon, who is mar­ried to for­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Regi­nald Ar­mour.