Shamfa slams Christlyn over ‘Visine’ statement

Moore alleged last week that the People’s National Movement (PNM) Government was carrying Trinidadians into Tobago to vote in the election.

“I say to hoteliers and small guest house operators (in Tobago), when they come in yuh house, yuh know what? Don’t feed them.

We say treat them with scant courtesy, they must not be encouraged to come back, I say drop Visine (a brand of eye drops) in dey water, give them diarrhoea, they must go home.” Speaking with reporters yesterday at the Montgomery Government School in Bethel after she voted, Cudjoe described the statement as the “most reckless and irresponsible statement ever heard from a politician”.

“That is a quite unfortunate comment or unfortunate statement to come from the Tobago Forwards leader especially considering that she would have campaigned on tourism development a lot for the time of her campaign,” Cudjoe said.

“In Tobago, we depend so heavily on visitors coming from Trinidad to keep us afloat during the weaker months so it is just very unfortunate that she would have had that slip of tongue and even being asked two times or being told two times that it was an irresponsible statement, she said ‘no not at all’.” Cudjoe noted that with domestic tourism being such an important part of Tobago’s development, she is yet to hear any calls from the stakeholders for an apology.

“I didn’t hear the stakeholders condemning the comment or even saying anything, or even coming out and asking her for an apology or anything of that nature.

I found that rather strange.