Christlyn holds her ground

Speaking with reporters after casting her vote at the Lambeau Anglican Primary School at about 7.35am, Moore maintained that any Trinidadian going to Tobago to subvert the democratic will of Tobagonians ought to go back home. “We have no difficulty with any visitors to Tobago,” she said.

“What we have a problem with is persons who have been imported into this space to try to change the outcome of the will of residents.” Moore has come under fire for her claim made during a live radio interview in Scarborough on Friday.

She also has been chastised for advising hoteliers and operators of small guest houses to “not feed them (Trinidadians)...

treat them with scant courtesy and drop Visine in dey water.” Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has urged her to apologise for her remarks, which he felt, has the potential to damage relations between the two islands beyond the THA election. Moore yesterday made it clear she had no difficulty with visitors. “How can we?” she asked.

“Our entire economy runs on visitors but nobody invites somebody into their house so that they could destroy their house.

Nobody does that and certainly we cannot encourage that.” Moore argued that governance systems in Tobago worked in a particular way and visitors cannot come in and change that.

“That is wrong,” she said.

Moore, who was greeted with a long line when she arrived at the school to cast her ballot, said the party was very concerned about irregularities in the voting process.

She said: “We have voiced those concerns.

We have maintained throughout this election cycle that there has been mischief afoot in the camp of the PNM. “We have maintained that there has always been a plan that thwarts the will of Tobagonians.