Sascha Wil­son

Some 1,500 Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) mem­bers from To­ba­go will have to trav­el to Trinidad to vote at Sun­day's in­ter­nal elec­tions be­cause there is no polling booth in the is­land. So said Bar­ring­ton "Skip­py" Thomas, To­ba­go re­gion­al rep­re­sen­ta­tive can­di­date on the in­de­pen­dent can­di­dates' plat­form in Siparia on Wednes­day night. Speak­ing at the Siparia KPA Pri­ma­ry School, Thomas tried, pros­e­cut­ed and found the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress, led by po­lit­i­cal leader Bas­deo Pan­day, guilty of caus­ing suf­fer­ing and aban­don­ing the peo­ple of To­ba­go. One of the many atroc­i­ties against To­ba­go UNC mem­bers, he said, was there was no polling sta­tion.

Thomas, a ra­dio talk show host and An­gli­can pas­tor, said Carl Hec­tor sent a no­tice to chair­man of the elec­tions com­mit­tee, Khem­chan Ram­dath, con­firm­ing there was a mem­ber­ship of 1,500 peo­ple in To­ba­go and no polling sta­tion. Thomas said when he spoke to Ram­dath on Tues­day he told him to come to Trinidad and vote in Arou­ca. Thomas said: "I don't live in Arou­ca. I live in To­ba­go. He went fur­ther to say I must buy a plane tick­et and bring the re­ceipt, pay a car and bring the re­ceipt and if I have to eat any meal bring the re­ceipt. "My favourite meal is dou­bles so you could imag­ine me telling a dou­bles man I want a re­ceipt."