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Saturday, July 26, 2025

PDP's two seats not enough

PNM rules THA again

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Kelvin Charles led the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment to yet an­oth­er vic­to­ry in the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) last night.

But while he led the par­ty to its fifth straight win in To­ba­go, he did not achieve the 2013 suc­cess of his pre­de­ces­sor Orville Lon­don, even­tu­al­ly tak­ing the THA 10-2 af­ter Wat­son Duke's Peo­ple's De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty blocked a clean sweep.

Both Duke (Rox­bor­ough/Dalaford)and Far­ley Au­gus­tine (Par­latu­vi­er/L'anse Four­mi/Spey­side) were the on­ly op­po­si­tion can­di­dates who con­vinced To­bag­o­ni­ans they were wor­thy of rep­re­sent­ing them over the next four years.

Af­ter that, on­ly the PNM's Belle Gar­den/Good­wood can­di­date, Hay­den Spencer, was made to sweat. The PDP's Dr Faith Yis­rael took him down to the wire for a seat that was de­clared late, which he won by a mere five votes 953-948.

Speak­ing to ex­u­ber­ant sup­port­ers at the par­ty's Scar­bor­ough head­quar­ters last night, out­go­ing Chief Sec­re­tary Lon­don con­grat­u­lat­ed all the can­di­dates who con­test­ed the elec­tions. He said with the cur­rent win he want­ed to put the achieve­ment in­to per­spec­tive be­cause it was un­prece­dent­ed

"We have been giv­en a fifth suc­ces­sive man­date, but not on­ly that, we have been giv­en that man­date by a five to one ma­jor­i­ty. I want you to put that in con­text, 10-2, five to one is in fact an over­whelm­ing man­date in any lan­guage and there­fore I want to com­mend all of you the peo­ple of To­ba­go, all the PNM sup­port­ers and all of you who worked as­sid­u­ous­ly over the past few weeks to en­sure that once again, the PNM is re­turned to the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly." Charles said the peo­ple of To­ba­go had spo­ken loud­ly through the re­sults, adding he was hap­py that To­bag­o­ni­ans trust­ed him and the PNM to take To­ba­go fur­ther.

PNM leader and Prime Min­is­ter Dr. Kei­th Row­ley thanked To­bag­o­ni­ans for mak­ing the right choice. He said he ac­cept­ed the 10-2 re­sults and he was ex­cit­ed to work with the new team.

"The next four years would be the most ex­cit­ing four years in the his­to­ry of To­ba­go. We are go­ing to work to­geth­er, we are go­ing to achieve to­geth­er and we are go­ing to progress to­geth­er, be­cause this coun­try is Trinidad and To­ba­go and To­ba­go is im­por­tant," Row­ley said.

"As we cel­e­brate tonight and ac­cept this re­spon­si­bil­i­ty, as we wel­come the new Chief Sec­re­tary, as we wel­come the new sec­re­taries who would be ap­point­ed with­in the next few days, I want to say con­grat­u­la­tions to all those per­sons who of­fered them­selves for pub­lic of­fice."

Row­ley said not every­thing would be of­fered im­me­di­ate­ly, but if both the Cen­tral Gov­ern­ment and the THA work to­geth­er, To­ba­go would get every­thing it needs in time, once the ap­pro­pri­ate at­ti­tude ex­ists to build the is­land

Thou­sands of PNM sup­port­ers lat­er made their tra­di­tion­al vic­to­ry march through the streets up ear­ly hours of yes­ter­day morn­ing.

The new ex­ec­u­tive of the THA is sched­uled to be sworn in on Thurs­day at the Jern­ing­ham Street Cham­ber at 10 am.

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?LIST OF WIN­NERS

Ba­co­let/Mount St George

PNM Joel Jack 1,041

Belle Gar­den/Good­wood

PNM Hay­den Spencer 953

Bethel/Mt Irvine

PNM Shomari Hec­tor 1,184

Black Rock/Whim/Spring Gar­den

PNM Kelvin Charles 1,050

Buc­coo/Mount Pleas­ant

PNM An­cil Den­nis 1,291

Canaan/Bon Ac­cord

PNM Clarence Ja­cob 803

Lam­beau/Sig­nal Hill

PNM Jo­mo Pitt 1,185

Par­latu­vi­er/L'anse Four­mi/Spey­side

PDP Far­ley Au­gus­tine 954

Ply­mouth/Gold­en Lane

PNM Mar­isha Os­mond 578

Prov­i­dence/Ma­son Hall/Ply­mouth

PNM Shel­don Cun­ning­ham 1,089

Rox­bor­ough/De­laford

PDP Wat­son Duke 1,261

Scar­bor­ough/Calder Hall

PNM Marslyn Melville-Jack 287


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