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Two po­lit­i­cal can­di­dates are fac­ing scruti­ny af­ter al­le­ga­tions sur­faced that they have been cam­paign­ing along­side in­di­vid­u­als with crim­i­nal back­grounds.

Wayne Sturge, the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) can­di­date for To­co/San­gre, con­firmed walk­ing with a per­son con­vict­ed of sum­ma­ry of­fences, while his Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) coun­ter­part, Roger Mon­roe, de­nied any as­so­ci­a­tion with such fig­ures.

Sturge was re­spond­ing to re­cent con­cerns raised by Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance leader Gary Grif­fith dur­ing a meet­ing in San­gre Grande that crim­i­nal el­e­ments were seen walk­ing in the con­stituen­cy with one can­di­date whom he did not iden­ti­fy.