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Wednesday, January 15, 2025

PNM party groups ask THA nominee to resign

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1534 days ago
20201103
Marslyn Melville-Jack

Marslyn Melville-Jack

There was si­lence yes­ter­day from To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) hi­er­ar­chy on the on­go­ing saga be­tween the par­ty’s Scar­bor­ough/Calder Hall group and their nom­i­nat­ed can­di­date Marslyn Melville-Jack, who has been cho­sen to con­test next year’s To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tion.

Three of the five-par­ty groups in the elec­toral dis­trict have pe­ti­tioned the is­land coun­cil over the choice of Melville-Jack and copied it to the gen­er­al coun­cil, ask­ing that Melville-Jack’s nom­i­na­tion be re­voked and Dr Denise Tsoiafatt-An­gus be nom­i­nat­ed in­stead.

The groups told Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day that since they sent the pe­ti­tion over the week­end they have re­ceived no re­sponse. How­ev­er, the par­ty groups said they would con­tin­ue to lob­by un­til some­one meets with them.

“We are vow­ing not to give up un­til the de­ci­sion is re­versed,” the group wrote.

The par­ty groups said based on the non-re­sponse from the par­ty ex­ec­u­tive, a de­ci­sion was made to take an­oth­er step, hence their de­ci­sion to ask Melville-Jack, who is al­so the To­ba­go Coun­cil La­dy Vice-Chair, to re­sign.

Mean­while, the par­ty is re­port­ed­ly mov­ing ahead with get­ting its elec­tion­eer­ing ma­chin­ery in place and be­gan train­ing elec­tion per­son­nel on Sun­day.

Guardian Me­dia reached out via tele­phone and What­sApp to Melville-Jack, the To­ba­go Coun­cil’s po­lit­i­cal leader Tra­cy David­son-Ce­les­tine, Melville-Jack and Tsoiafatt-An­gus yes­ter­day but got no re­sponse to our voice or text mes­sages. Sim­i­lar at­tempts to reach PNM gen­er­al sec­re­tary Fos­ter Cum­mings were al­so un­suc­cess­ful.

↔—Camille Mc Each­nie


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