Chester Sam­bra­no

Leader of the To­ba­go Coun­cil of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), An­cil Den­nis, has ac­cused Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine of know­ing about the mil­i­tary radar in­stalled in To­ba­go be­fore it was made pub­lic.

In an in­ter­view fol­low­ing a com­mu­ni­ty con­ver­sa­tion event at Bar­code in Scar­bor­ough yes­ter­day, Den­nis said: “It’s a joke for them, the fact that a mil­i­tary radar has been es­tab­lished in To­ba­go be­hind our backs with­out any con­sul­ta­tion with the peo­ple of To­ba­go, with­out any con­sul­ta­tion with the Chief Sec­re­tary ac­cord­ing to him, and I’m say­ing ac­cord­ing to him be­cause my in­for­ma­tion tells me that he did in fact know about the radar be­ing in­stalled be­fore it was in­stalled, but stay tuned for that. “But to them it’s a joke, so plac­ing the lives and the liveli­hoods of the peo­ple of To­ba­go in grave dan­ger due to ir­re­spon­si­ble ac­tions on the part of this cur­rent Gov­ern­ment is a joke for Cer­ti­ca (Williams) or Far­ley Au­gus­tine and oth­er mem­bers of the TPP. Well, I want to say to the peo­ple of To­ba­go that just as how they be­lieve that this in­stal­la­tion of the radar is a joke, then we should con­sid­er any­thing that they say on the plat­form, in­clud­ing vot­ing for them for our next four years, as a big joke and we should sim­ply laugh in their faces, cyar, cyar, cyar, cyar (sic).”