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Sunday, July 27, 2025

Adviser: Plot to get rid of Delmon Baker

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Stan­ley Beard, ad­vis­er to To­ba­go De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Del­mon Bak­er, has ac­cused a ra­dio pro­gramme of mak­ing pub­lic mis­chief with al­le­ga­tions which cre­at­ed a dis­cus­sion aimed at em­bar­rass­ing the min­is­ter.He said the mat­ter could go to court.Beard con­firmed that fol­low­ing claims Bak­er was "con­sid­er­ing his fu­ture" in pol­i­tics af­ter a "nasty ru­mour" on Tues­day that he had met with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to of­fer a res­ig­na­tion and sub­se­quent­ly re­signed.

Ru­mours were so strong on Tues­day that two PNM sen­a­tors not­ed al­le­ga­tions con­cern­ing a min­is­ter and a "lit­tle boy" dur­ing Sen­ate pro­ceed­ings.An of­fi­cial of the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter yes­ter­day said Bak­er did not seek a meet­ing with the PM but she had asked to see him. Bak­er did not an­swer calls yes­ter­day.Beard said as far as he knew, Bak­er of­fered no res­ig­na­tion. How­ev­er, Beard said, he was con­cerned that as Bak­er was meet­ing the PM, a ra­dio pro­gramme aired al­le­ga­tions about Bak­er and a res­ig­na­tion.

He said the sit­u­a­tion was a plot to de­fame Bak­er by some peo­ple, who were try­ing to tar­nish him be­cause he had lead­er­ship po­ten­tial. Beard, who claimed ex­tor­tion of Bak­er had arisen, said TOP was sup­posed to have a par­ty elec­tion by May 26 and many things were hap­pen­ing as a re­sult, par­tic­u­lar­ly since there was no ex­ec­u­tive to steer the sit­u­a­tion.

He claimed sev­er­al peo­ple were try­ing to take over TOP and the die was cast long ago for Bak­er to be a tar­get, since he was a young un­mar­ried man.Deny­ing ru­mours about any child be­ing in­volved in the is­sue, Beard said one of the cul­prits be­hind the al­leged sit­u­a­tion was a per­son who had worked in TOP's of­fice dur­ing elec­tions, not­ing, as some­times hap­pens at elec­tion time, "peo­ple al­ways want­ed things."


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