PNM To­ba­go East can­di­date Ayan­na Web­ster-Roy is warn­ing To­bag­o­ni­ans that a UNC vic­to­ry in the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion would spell dis­as­ter for the coun­try, say­ing, “we all stand to lose — and lose big.”

In a fiery ad­dress at a po­lit­i­cal meet­ing in Char­lot­teville, Web­ster-Roy told con­stituents that a UNC-led gov­ern­ment would dri­ve up the cost of liv­ing, elim­i­nate food sup­port, and leave To­ba­go’s most vul­ner­a­ble cit­i­zens be­hind.

“If the UNC wins, all of Trinidad and To­ba­go los­es. If the UNC wins, our econ­o­my and na­tion­al pride will de­cline. If the UNC wins, it is our chil­dren who will suf­fer,” she de­clared.

Web­ster-Roy warned that ir­re­spon­si­ble eco­nom­ic poli­cies from the UNC could push the coun­try in­to the arms of the IMF, re­sult­ing in deep cuts to so­cial pro­grams.

“The over $15 mil­lion in food sup­port to 10,441 To­bag­o­ni­ans—gone.

The $503 mil­lion paid to se­nior cit­i­zens in To­ba­go from 2015 to 2025—gone.

The $68 mil­lion in pub­lic as­sis­tance—gone.

The $85 mil­lion in dis­abil­i­ty grants—gone.

And the $8.5 mil­lion to sup­port chil­dren with dis­abil­i­ties—gone.”

She added: “The first thing the IMF will do is cut so­cial sec­tor spend­ing. So if the UNC wins, pic­ture this: your food card—gone.”

Push­ing back on op­po­si­tion crit­i­cism that MPs should be more vo­cal in Par­lia­ment, Web­ster-Roy em­pha­sized that ef­fec­tive rep­re­sen­ta­tion comes through diplo­ma­cy and re­la­tion­ship-build­ing.

“Par­lia­ment is no place to make noise and fight. You catch more flies with hon­ey than vine­gar. Since 2015, I’ve been us­ing my charm, my qui­et dis­po­si­tion, and my abil­i­ty to build re­la­tion­ships to bring re­al de­vel­op­ment to To­ba­go East.”

She al­so promised greater sup­port for fam­i­lies, in­clud­ing re­mov­ing VAT from school uni­forms and text­books, in­creas­ing food card al­lo­ca­tions, and re­view­ing the means test to bet­ter sup­port vul­ner­a­ble house­holds.

Ad­di­tion­al­ly, she pledged that a fu­ture PNM gov­ern­ment would work with NGOs to es­tab­lish a safe house in To­ba­go for women and chil­dren af­fect­ed by do­mes­tic vi­o­lence, and in­tro­duce vir­tu­al doc­tor vis­its for the el­der­ly.

“We are putting our se­nior cit­i­zens at the heart of our ser­vice de­liv­ery. And when we re­turn to gov­ern­ment, we will re­move tax­es from pub­lic sec­tor pen­sions.”

Web­ster-Roy closed with a call to ac­tion, urg­ing To­bag­o­ni­ans to re­ject com­pla­cen­cy and show up on April 28.

“De­spite the walk, de­spite the talk, the on­ly way I can re­main your hum­ble ser­vant is if you go out on elec­tion day and bring in the votes.”