Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary and for­mer Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for La Hor­quet­ta/Tal­paro, Fos­ter Cum­mings, has strong­ly con­demned what he de­scribed as base­less and defam­a­to­ry al­le­ga­tions made against him dur­ing the 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion cam­paign.

Cum­mings was ac­cused of in­ap­pro­pri­ate be­hav­iour in­volv­ing women in his of­fice in a wide­ly cir­cu­lat­ed so­cial me­dia video. The video fea­tured a man with corn­rows who claimed he had wit­nessed beds be­ing re­moved from Cum­mings’ of­fice—an al­le­ga­tion Cum­mings has firm­ly re­ject­ed.

Re­spond­ing to the in­ci­dent, Cum­mings ex­pressed deep dis­ap­point­ment with the tone and tac­tics of the re­cent cam­paign, con­trast­ing it with what he de­scribed as the more re­spect­ful and is­sues-fo­cused cam­paign of 2020.

“One thing about that cam­paign [2020] is at no time did it en­ter in­to the gut­ter. I sold my dream and vi­sion for the con­stituen­cy and Ms [Jear­lean] John did that on be­half of the par­ty she rep­re­sent­ed and her­self. And at the end of the day the PNM was vic­to­ri­ous, but we ran a very clean cam­paign,” he said.

“On this oc­ca­sion, how­ev­er, I must say the num­ber of videos, murky and dirty and gut­ter­ish that have emerged, ab­solute lies just so that one can win. If in the pol­i­tics, we are pre­pared to tar­nish peo­ple’s char­ac­ter just so that we can emerge the win­ner, it is not a good day for the pol­i­tics,” he added.

Cum­mings made it clear that he will con­tin­ue to speak out against what he con­sid­ers un­eth­i­cal con­duct in the po­lit­i­cal are­na.

“For the kind of gut­ter pol­i­tics that emerged in the re­cent cam­paign I took part in, some of which in­volved ma­li­cious and in­ac­cu­rate and out­right lies be­ing per­pe­trat­ed on so­cial me­dia, no­body tak­ing re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for it—but it is not a good day for the pol­i­tics of Trinidad and To­ba­go. And it’s some­thing that I will re­ject on every oc­ca­sion that I have, that as politi­cians we must stick to truth and de­cen­cy in the po­lit­i­cal are­na.”

Al­though vis­i­bly an­gered by the al­le­ga­tions, Cum­mings said he does not be­lieve it is worth his time, or the courts', to dig­ni­fy the ac­cu­sa­tions by en­gag­ing with them on­line.

Cum­mings lost the La Hor­quet­ta/Tal­paro seat to Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress can­di­date Phillip Watts, who was his for­mer cam­paign man­ag­er.