Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Mi­nor­i­ty Leader Kelvon Mor­ris is blam­ing both Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine for To­ba­go’s cur­rent de­cline in tourism.

Ac­cord­ing to Mor­ris, both the PM and Au­gus­tine’s hand in the Unit­ed States radar be­ing placed in To­ba­go have led to a de­cline in tourist ar­rivals dur­ing the Christ­mas sea­son.

Ad­dress­ing PNM sup­port­ers at a meet­ing in Char­lot­teville on Sat­ur­day, Mor­ris point­ed to the on­go­ing mil­i­tary ten­sions be­tween the US and Venezuela, say­ing no one will choose To­ba­go as a tourism des­ti­na­tion now. He added that the radar is not a gift to the is­land, but mil­i­tary-grade equip­ment in­stalled in prepa­ra­tion for war.