Gail Alexan­der

To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly chief sec­re­tary Orville Lon­don, who is soon to name a THA?elec­tion date, has warned PN­Mites that the next three months will be very chal­leng­ing for them. "But I am heart­ened by what I see here to­day!"?Lon­don said ad­dress­ing sup­port­ers at yes­ter­day's PNM con­ven­tion at the Grand Stand, Queen's Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain.

Lon­don dis­solved the THA last Thurs­day and elec­tions are to be held be­tween De­cem­ber 25 and Jan­u­ary 25, 2013. He told PN­Mites that what hap­pens in To­ba­go over the next few months-with the THA elec­tions-will de­cide the des­tiny of T&T for gen­er­a­tions to come.

"The choice is clear. It is a choice be­tween de­cen­cy, dig­ni­ty and the pro­tec­tion of democ­ra­cy against de­ceit, dis­re­spect and con­tempt," he said. Lon­don called on sup­port­ers at the con­ven­tion to use the ca­ma­raderie of the mo­ment for To­ba­go's bet­ter­ment. He said the mantra for the pe­ri­od for all PN­Mites must be "Talk to a To­bag­on­ian."

He warned that sup­port­ers must not al­low UNC pol­i­tics to be­come en­trenched in Trinidad or be in­tro­duced in To­ba­go, "We must send the sig­nal in To­ba­go!" he added. Lon­don said cer­tain peo­ple and in­sti­tu­tions in­clud­ing him­self were tar­get­ed by the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship (PP) ad­min­is­tra­tion. He said what­ev­er law­suits the PP came with he re­mained a "proud, stub­born To­bag­on­ian."

Lon­don said the TOP was be­ing used as pup­pets by the PP which was send­ing "peo­ple in­to the fir­ing line." He said any­one who in­ter­fered with the PP was viewed as "ex­pend­able." He said "ex­pend­ables" in­clud­ed sacked Jus­tice Min­is­ter Her­bert Vol­ney, fired min­is­ter Col­in Par­tap and dis­missed min­is­ter Mary King.

He said the PP al­so had un­touch­ables. He said the PP?had boast­ed of car­ing for To­ba­go, but the re­duced al­lo­ca­tions for schol­ar­ships and oth­er pro­grammes which the THA re­ceived showed they did not care.