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Eliz­a­beth Gon­za­les

Mi­nor­i­ty Leader Kelvon Mor­ris is ac­cus­ing Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine of aban­don­ing his once-strong stance, which he once had against the for­mer PNM-led Gov­ern­ment, on To­ba­go’s most press­ing is­sues, es­pe­cial­ly now on mat­ters in­volv­ing the Prime Min­is­ter’s tough talk sur­round­ing the Venezuela/US ten­sion.

Speak­ing at a press con­fer­ence, Mor­ris claimed Au­gus­tine was vo­cal up un­til April 28, but has since “gone soft” on de­fend­ing To­ba­go’s rights over en­er­gy re­sources and on the safe­ty con­cerns of fish­er­men. He said To­ba­go’s fish­er­folk are now afraid to go to sea, point­ing to re­cent in­ci­dents where ves­sels in the re­gion were bombed.