Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment can­di­date for Sig­nal Hill/Pleas­ant Hill in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly elec­tions, Tra­cy David­son-Ce­les­tine, has ac­cused the Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP) and the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) of work­ing to­geth­er to pre­vent the good gov­er­nance of To­ba­go.

Dur­ing a meet­ing in the Bagatelle/Ba­co­let dis­trict on Mon­day night, David­son-Ce­les­tine, the PNM’s To­ba­go Coun­cil leader, said when the UNC was in pow­er from 2010 to 2015 and the PNM was head­ing the THA, “it was the worst time for us as peo­ple of To­ba­go.”

She re­called for­mer THA Chief Sec­re­tary Orville Lon­don try­ing to meet with the then Prime Min­is­ter but be­ing un­suc­cess­ful each time.

David­son-Ce­les­tine urged To­bag­o­ni­ans to come out on De­cem­ber 6 and pro­tect the is­land’s fu­ture, as she re­mind­ed them of the strides and steps tak­en by the PNM to as­sure To­ba­go’s con­tin­ued de­vel­op­ment.

Among the achieve­ments list­ed was the con­struc­tion of sev­er­al health cen­tres in Rox­bor­ough; Mo­ri­ah; Char­lot­teville and Canaan/Bon Ac­cord in re­cent years.

Oth­er projects she boast­ed about in­clud­ed eight com­mu­ni­ty cen­tres built by the PNM, as she said $40 mil­lion was spent to de­vel­op every elec­toral dis­trict across the is­land.

A swim­ming pool and sev­er­al pan the­atres were high­light­ed as oth­er in­fra­struc­ture works that the peo­ple of To­ba­go are now ben­e­fit­ting from.

In the area of ter­tiary ed­u­ca­tion, David­son-Ce­les­tine said the is­land had been ed­u­cat­ing nurs­es, doc­tors and teach­ers as part of “walk­ing the talk” and in­vest­ing in fa­cil­i­ties and the peo­ple of To­ba­go.

“We have been tried, we have been test­ed and most im­por­tant­ly, we have been proven and we are about de­liv­ery to the peo­ple of To­ba­go,” David­son-Ce­les­tine said.

David­son-Ce­les­tine called on To­bag­o­ni­ans not to let them­selves get caught in any trick­ery and to avoid be­ing hood­winked in­to elect­ing the Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots (PDP).

She as­sured the young, old, sin­gle, vul­ner­a­ble moth­ers, farm­ers, fish­er­men, and those sim­ply want­i­ng land to build homes that the PNM had a plan to help them im­prove their cir­cum­stances.

Mean­while, in a brief video post­ed to his Face­book page yes­ter­day, PDP leader Wat­son Duke did some can­vass­ing in the Dar­rel Spring area with a rov­ing polling box, as he in­vit­ed the peo­ple in the com­mu­ni­ty to cast their bal­lot.