The To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) says a com­par­i­son be­tween for­mer PNM au­ton­o­my bills and the con­sti­tu­tion­al arrange­ment in St Kitts and Nevis is “fun­da­men­tal­ly flawed.”

The TPP is­sued a me­dia re­lease re­spond­ing to com­ments from PNM MP Camille Robin­son-Reg­is. Robin­son-Reg­is had ques­tioned Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine’s vis­it to St Kitts and Nevis with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, sug­gest­ing the vis­it was a “re­vi­sion” of his­to­ry be­cause Au­gus­tine had pre­vi­ous­ly re­ject­ed the St Kitts/Nevis mod­el dur­ing Joint Se­lect Com­mit­tee con­sid­er­a­tions.

The TPP stat­ed that Nevis gov­erns it­self un­der con­sti­tu­tion­al­ly pro­tect­ed au­thor­i­ty, where­as un­der the PNM pro­pos­als, “To­ba­go would still have been gov­erned from Port of Spain.”