Camille McEach­nie

Christlyn Moore, leader of the To­ba­go For­wards (TF), now af­fil­i­at­ed with One To­ba­go Voice (OTV), has blamed the leader of the Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) Wat­son Duke for fail­ure to unite the par­ties. In re­sponse, Duke throws shade at OTV call­ing them “po­lit­i­cal­ly dead.”

Moore joined with To­ba­go Or­gan­i­sa­tion of the Peo­ple—Ash­worth Jack and the Plat­form of Truth-Ho­choy Charles, to form OTV.

In a Ju­ly 14, 2020 let­ter ad­dressed to Duke, and post­ed on her Face­book page, Moore wad­ed in­to Duke.

“It has been re­gret­table that we have not been able to col­lab­o­rate...this fail­ure rests sole­ly on you,” Moore wrote.

She ac­cus­es Duke of “mis­man­age­ment of the truth” and not­ed that dur­ing her en­coun­ters with him over the past sev­en years, she “has not been able to trust” him.

She says state­ments at­trib­uted to him, in the me­dia about the PDP’s re­la­tion­ship with OTV, are “mis­lead­ing and com­plete­ly false.”

Moore says she had enough with Duke and their re­la­tion­ship is “now at the end.” She makes a promise. “I will re­spond to all at­tacks that you di­rect my way. I have held my tongue thus far...”

Duke ac­knowl­edged see­ing the let­ter. He told Guardian Me­dia: “My moth­er taught me not to talk to the dead, Christlyn Moore, Ho­choy Charles, and Ash­worth Jack, are all po­lit­i­cal­ly dead.”