Duke preparing to step down as PSA president

PSA president Watson Duke, speaking with reporters at a press conference at the Union’s Tobago office, said when he demits office to take up the reigns at the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) as Chief Secretary when the election is called, the replacement, who he did not name, will be ready.

“I will gladly put down my crown as president of the PSA and take up the crown of the THA because Tobago needs representation. Even now, I am, by necessity, doing both jobs. It is tough for me but it must be done.

The PSA will not be left without proper leadership and Tobago needs leadership, so I would not abandon one for the other.” Questioned further about the identity of the aspiring president, Duke said, “The person is there already and, at the right time, he would be introduced.

He is not ready for introduction as yet. Certainly he is no stranger to the PSA, but he is not identified as that person just yet.” Duke is the candidate for Roxborough / Delaford under the Progressive Democratic Patriots (PDP), the party which he leads, in the upcoming THA elections which is constitutionally due in 2017.

He said the party will contest all 12 seats in the upcoming elections and eventually they will get to the point of all the seats in Trinidad.