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Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Farley unphased by rumours of bribes

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Loyse Vincent
1483 days ago
20210127
Deputy Political Leader of the PDP Farley Augustine, right, and leader Watson Duke celebrate their party’s success in Roxborough after Monday’s THA elections.

Deputy Political Leader of the PDP Farley Augustine, right, and leader Watson Duke celebrate their party’s success in Roxborough after Monday’s THA elections.

LOYCE VINCENT

Loyse Vin­cent

Deputy po­lit­i­cal leader of the Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) Far­ley Au­gus­tine said he was un­phased by ru­mours that mem­bers of the hi­er­ar­chy of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) are cur­rent­ly in To­ba­go at­tempt­ing to en­tice one of the six suc­cess­ful PDP can­di­dates to cross the floor and join the PNM.

He was speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia ex­clu­sive­ly af­ter a news con­fer­ence at the PDP’s Scar­bor­ough of­fice on Mil­ford Road.

“We have heard the ru­mours that the PNM in Trinidad is send­ing over bag men and women to To­ba­go to of­fer our can­di­dates mon­ey to cross the floor, but we are not both­ered by that.”

He did not say who specif­i­cal­ly was be­ing tar­get­ed but said he had con­fi­dence in the peo­ple se­lect­ed.

“Hu­man be­ings are hu­man be­ings and peo­ple are peo­ple but I have con­fi­dence in my team notwith­stand­ing that I go with faith that the team that was se­lect­ed care­ful­ly by our screen­ing com­mit­tee were the best can­di­dates for the job.”

He said he met with his rep­re­sen­ta­tives who have all agreed to put To­ba­go’s best in­ter­est first and he is con­fi­dent that none of the peo­ple on his team will ac­cept any of­fers.

“We have al­ready be­gan look­ing at a can­di­date for the po­si­tion of Pre­sid­ing Of­fi­cer, some­body who the en­tire is­land will re­spect, and we will se­lect our three coun­cil­lors be­cause we are ready for gov­er­nance from day one and to­day is day one and we are al­ready off the ground run­ning with prepa­ra­tion for Thurs­day (swear­ing-in).”

In 1997 the PNM’s Dr Ru­pert Grif­fith and Dr Vin­cent Lasse, the elect­ed rep­re­sen­ta­tives for Ari­ma and La Brea re­spec­tive­ly, crossed the floor to the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress.

The PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil po­lit­i­cal leader Tra­cy David­son-Ce­les­tine was un­avail­able for com­ment.


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