Click to view full size

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has got­ten her wish to have in­de­pen­dent in­ter­na­tion­al ob­servers for the Gen­er­al Elec­tion on April 28. The an­nounce­ment was made by Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young dur­ing his first post-Cab­i­net meet­ing as the new head of Gov­ern­ment at White­hall, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day.

The Prime Min­is­ter re­vealed that Gov­ern­ment had in­vit­ed three bod­ies, in­clud­ing Cari­com, the Com­mon­wealth Sec­re­tari­at and the Carter Cen­ter, to as­sist in the ob­ser­va­tion of the elec­tion.

On Thurs­day, Per­sad-Bisses­sar wrote to Young, ur­gent­ly re­quest­ing that Gov­ern­ment in­vite in­de­pen­dent in­ter­na­tion­al elec­tion ob­servers, af­ter for­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Row­ley on­ly in­vit­ed Cari­com elec­tion ob­servers.