The Mi­nor­i­ty Leader in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) says all eyes are on the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) as they now must de­liv­er on their cam­paign promis­es, in­clud­ing To­ba­go’s au­ton­o­my.

Speak­ing on CNC3’s The Morn­ing Brew show to­day, Kelvon Mor­ris con­grat­u­lat­ed the can­di­dates and said he re­mains hope­ful, as noth­ing should hold back the As­sem­bly.

“Over the years, this As­sem­bly was very good at chang­ing the nar­ra­tive for their short­com­ings. They were able to cre­ate a nar­ra­tive that it was Cen­tral Gov­ern­ment that was stand­ing in the way of To­ba­go’s de­vel­op­ment,” Mor­ris re­count­ed.

“Now that they have their friends in the UNC in gov­ern­ment in Trinidad, they have ab­solute­ly no ex­cuse to the peo­ple of To­ba­go,” he said, “and we look for­ward to them de­liv­er­ing all that they promised, in­clud­ing To­ba­go get­ting its au­ton­o­my once and for all, be­cause that it what they cam­paigned on.”

“Ul­ti­mate­ly, we will con­tin­ue to hold them ac­count­able,” Mor­ris added.

He says af­ter the PNM’s elec­tion post­mortem, the par­ty de­ter­mined that many of its sup­port­ers did not turn out to vote, as they were dis­sat­is­fied with the par­ty’s per­for­mance.

“There are per­sons along the way who may have fell off and may have felt dis­en­chant­ed, and hurt and dis­ap­point­ed in some way,” he ac­knowl­edged.

“We are re­al­ly go­ing back out to the com­mu­ni­ties and go­ing out on the ground to get a gen­uine feel,” he said, “and al­so to share with them our plans for go­ing for­ward in terms of strength­en­ing and re­build­ing of the par­ty, as well as our trans­for­ma­tive plans for To­ba­go, go­ing for­ward.”

The THA Mi­nor­i­ty Leader says these plans in­clude a se­ries of out­reach events, as well as hav­ing more mean­ing­ful con­ver­sa­tions, to make a greater con­nec­tion with the peo­ple.

He not­ed that both for­mer Mem­bers of Par­lia­ment for To­ba­go—Ayan­na Web­ster-Roy and Sham­fa Cud­joe-Lewis—will be mak­ing their own sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions to these ini­tia­tives to re­build pub­lic trust, as they play an in­te­gral role in the par­ty’s rep­re­sen­ta­tion.