To­ba­go East MP David Thomas is back­ing the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ (UNC) strong stance on road traf­fic in­fringe­ments. How­ev­er, oth­er po­lit­i­cal par­ties on the is­land be­lieve this is yet an­oth­er ex­am­ple of the To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty (TPP) sell­ing out the in­ter­ests of To­bag­o­ni­ans for favour with the Gov­ern­ment.

The par­ties al­so warn that af­ter the Jan­u­ary 12 To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tions, To­bag­o­ni­ans will be sub­ject­ed to a se­ries of road traf­fic ex­er­cis­es which are be­ing ex­pe­ri­enced in Trinidad.

On Wednes­day night in Dar­rel Spring/Whim, just af­ter a To­ba­go Peo­ple’s Par­ty pub­lic meet­ing, Guardian Me­dia caught up with Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine to get his re­ac­tion to the con­tro­ver­sial dou­bling of road traf­fic fines.