To­ba­go Cor­re­spon­dent

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has de­nied any dis­cus­sions or al­liance with Far­ley Au­gus­tine, leader of the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP), dis­miss­ing an au­dio record­ing cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia as “fake news.”

In the al­leged record­ing, voic­es pur­port­ing to be those of Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Au­gus­tine are heard dis­cussing po­lit­i­cal col­lab­o­ra­tion and fund­ing from the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) that sup­port­ed Au­gus­tine and his team—un­der the Pro­gres­sive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Pa­tri­ots—dur­ing the 2021 To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tions.