Duke hits Rowley’s feteing

At a press conference yesterday at the Public Services Association (PSA) officer in Port-of-Spain, Duke who is also PSA President, displayed a newspaper photo of Dr Rowley at the annual Bishop Anstey High School all-inclusive fete on Saturday.

“It irks me to see the Prime Minister frolicking at a Carnival party when crime is on the increase,” Duke said. He also knocked new THA Chief Secretary Kelvin Charles for saying he (Charles) had no crime plan.

“When the Chief Secretary says he has no crime plan that seemed to me to be a window for criminals.

Because in the ensuing days a number of criminal activities have taken place (in Tobago) in an intense manner as never before seen.” Duke said gunshots were heard in Signal Hill, a man was robbed of his car at gunpoint, one was almost kidnapped while walking along the Claude Noel Highway and there have been two murders already in the sister-isle.

Duke also spoke of a child aged three found wandering along Shirvan Road on the weekend.

“This is just the tip of the iceberg where crime and criminality are concerned in Tobago and we have a Chief Secretary who says he has no crime plan and will look to Trinidad for one.” He queried the $25 Billion that National Security got in the past five years and asked what value had citizens gotten for that expenditure.

Duke called for the full outfitting of all 15 municipal corporations with the appropriate municipal constabularies and for Rowley to give this directive to the Local Government Minister to get it done.

“We the Progressive Democratic Patriots have a crime plan and as the minority leader I will be writing the House asking for the crime plan of the Chief Secretary and also the legislative agenda, because high on that agenda should policing in Tobago,” he said. As for Rowley being at fetes, Duke had this to say: “We are calling on the Prime Minister to get more involved in Tobago’s business and stop falling around with the party business.

You are not a party man, you are an old man...act your age and act more responsibly.”