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Days af­ter the Trinidad and To­ba­go Trans­paren­cy In­sti­tute (TT­TI) urged the Gov­ern­ment to in­tro­duce cam­paign fi­nance re­form, Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) deputy po­lit­i­cal leader San­jiv Bood­hu has added his voice, cit­ing new al­le­ga­tions that San­gre Grande busi­ness­man Dan­ny Guer­ra fi­nanced the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’s (UNC) 2025 cam­paign in the con­stituen­cy.

Guer­ra, pre­vi­ous­ly de­tained un­der the last State of Emer­gency in con­nec­tion with a plot to as­sas­si­nate a gov­ern­ment of­fi­cial, has al­so been linked to fi­nanc­ing a gang. The al­le­ga­tions raise fresh ques­tions about the sources of po­lit­i­cal fund­ing and the need for trans­paren­cy in cam­paign fi­nanc­ing.

Bood­hu yes­ter­day crit­i­cised De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge for his lack of com­ment, de­scrib­ing the si­lence as “trou­bling.”