Loyse Vin­cent

The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) in­cum­bent can­di­date for To­ba­go West, Ayan­na Web­ster-Roy is con­fi­dent that she will re­tain the seat in the Au­gust 10 gen­er­al elec­tion.

Web­ster-Roy can­vassed the Ma­son Hall com­mu­ni­ty yes­ter­day, meet­ing with res­i­dents to gar­ner sup­port for her re-elec­tion.

Web­ster-Roy al­so dis­trib­uted seedlings dur­ing her vis­its, which were, for the most part, wel­comed by ex­cept by those who chose to avoid the in­ter­ac­tion al­to­geth­er.

Web­ster-Roy who will face the Peo­ple’s De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots’ (PDP) Wat­son Duke but she does not see him as a threat.

“One of the things I would have al­ways done is main­tained my pres­ence on the ground like my hash­tag says I nev­er left the ground.”

Web­ster–Roy said she is hop­ing to give Duke dou­ble the licks he got in the 2015 elec­tion.

The PDP, mean­while, con­tin­ued with its “No Leak­ing Roof” ini­tia­tive yes­ter­day, tak­ing the to­tal num­ber of roofs fixed up to 56.

In a live ra­dio broad­cast yes­ter­day, Duke lashed out against one of the found­ing mem­bers of the One To­ba­go Voice, Ho­choy Charles who ac­cused him (Duke) of be­ing an agent of the UNC.

He has since called off a meet­ing that was planned to bring to­geth­er To­ba­go par­ties ina bid to oust the PNM.

He al­so la­belled To­ba­go For­wards leader Christlyn Moore as “a los­er who nev­er won any elec­tion.”

The One To­ba­go Voice—a con­glom­er­a­tion of the To­ba­go For­wards, To­ba­go Or­gan­i­sa­tion of the Peo­ple and Plat­form for Truth, is yet to name can­di­dates for the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tions.

All par­ties have un­til Ju­ly 17, Nom­i­na­tion Day, to of­fi­cial­ly sub­mit the names of can­di­dates for the gen­er­al elec­tion.