The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) can­di­date for Aranguez/St Joseph is fac­ing crit­i­cism from his com­peti­tors over his cel­e­bra­to­ry style of fil­ing his nom­i­na­tion pa­pers with ac­cu­sa­tions that he dis­turbed schools in the area, where pupils are prepar­ing for the Sec­ondary En­trance As­sess­ment (SEA) ex­am­i­na­tions.

How­ev­er, Ter­rence Deyals­ingh shrugged off the con­dem­na­tion yes­ter­day.

Deyals­ingh ar­rived at the St Joseph Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre short­ly af­ter 9 am ac­com­pa­nied by a large crowd of sup­port­ers, a mu­sic truck, a pan band, moko jumbies and a tas­sa band.