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Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) To­ba­go Coun­cil leader An­cil Den­nis has claimed that To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) can­di­date Ricky Joe­field pre­vi­ous­ly ben­e­fit­ed from near­ly $10 mil­lion in con­tracts un­der a PNM ad­min­is­tra­tion, de­spite now con­test­ing the elec­tion un­der the TPP ban­ner.

Den­nis made the claim while ad­dress­ing a PNM po­lit­i­cal meet­ing in Dar­rel Spring/Whim, where he crit­i­cised the cur­rent To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly and de­fend­ed the PNM’s record on sup­port­ing To­ba­go con­trac­tors.

Ac­cord­ing to Den­nis, Joe­field — who is chal­leng­ing PNM in­cum­bent Kelvon Mor­ris in the Dar­rel Spring/Whim elec­toral dis­trict — is a To­ba­go con­trac­tor who ben­e­fit­ed dur­ing a pe­ri­od when the PNM pri­ori­tised lo­cal com­pa­nies and labour.