Moore: This goes to my lawyer

At a rally in Roxborough on Sunday, ahead of next Monday’s Tobago House of Assembly (THA) election, Rowley alleged that between January, 2014 and September 2015, Moore was paid $200,000 a month as a NIDCO consultant. He further alleged there was “an arrangement” between Moore and the PP, before the 2013 THA election, but did not present documents to support his allegation of Moore’s salary.

He recalled that Moore who at the time, was a member of the Tobago Organisation of the People (TOP), had taken a surprisingly keen interest in Tobago politics ahead of the 2013 THA election.

“You may recall in 2013, Christlyn Moore appeared here out of the blue,” Rowley told supporters.

“She entered the Cabinet in Trinidad and the next thing you know she was in Tobago, promoting the UNC.” The TOP was a member of the UNC-led People’s Partnership.

Moore was appointed Justice Minister on September 20, 2012 after Herbert Volney was fired from the PP Cabinet. A year later, Moore was replaced as minister by Emmanuel George. Rowley recalled that when the PNM won the 2013 THA election, “and I came back to Trinidad, she (Moore) was out of the Cabinet.

Obviously, she had come into the Cabinet to fight the Tobago elections and since she was found to be useless on that occasion, she was out of the Cabinet.” “But she didn’t go very far. The arrangement was in place and the arrangement was this: Out of the Cabinet and you get the best paying job in the country. I don’t know what was the arrangement but because the arrangement was kept, I have to conclude it was made before and regardless of the (THA election) results. So, she ended up with the highest paid job in the country...paid by you taxpayers.” Rowley alleged that when Moore returned to Trinidad after the 2013 THA election, she was offered a job as a NIDCO consultant to the tune of $200,000 a month. “You understand that and if you say the month has 20 working days, that is $10,000 per day. And you know who was paying that? You the tax payers,” he told supporters.

Saying Moore must give Tobagonians an account for her actions, Rowley said the PNM has no real challenge in next week’s election.

“I am telling you now in case you do not believe me, the only people we are fighting in Tobago in 2017, are two proxys of the UNC...the Tobago Forwards and Progressive Democratic Patriots,” Rowley said.

Contacted for comment yesterday, Moore did not mince her words saying that the Prime Minister had made “slanderous” allegations against her in public. “And I will tell you this, I will refer this matter to my lawyers,” Moore said.