MINISTER of Sport and Community Development Shamfa Cudjoe-Lewis has slammed the Tobago People’s Party’s (TPP’s) Tobago West candidate Joel “Nuttsy” Sampson for not attending the Conversation with the Candidates forum at Bishop’s High School, Mt Marie, Scarborough, on April 23.

She said had he attended the event, a collaboration between Tobago Channel Five and Tobago CivilNET, she would have been able to respond directly to all of the “lies” she claimed he had been peddling on the campaign with respect the management of sport on the island.

Cudjoe-Lewis, the PNM’s Tobago West candidate, was addressing a political meeting in Buccoo on April 23.