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The Progressive Democratic Patriots (PDP) established an alternative executive council in the Tobago House of Assembly as a distraction from the allegations of financial impropriety involving its political leader and Public Services Association (PSA) president Watson Duke.
This is the view of People’s National Movement (PNM) Tobago Council political leader Tracy Davidson-Celestine.
Last month, it was revealed the Water and Sewerage Authority paid millions of dollars to a company owned by Duke’s wife. It is also alleged that Duke had accepted over $500,000 in gratuity payments from the PSA although he had not submitted a resignation letter.
On the latter, Duke had told a reporter in October 2019 that he knew nothing about the $500,000 gratuity payment.
But in a Facebook live video on March 22, 2021, Duke said he had received the money and was entitled to it. On that occasion, Duke also claimed the money was used to fund the PDP’s launch at the Magdalena Grand Beach & Golf Resort, Lowlands, on October 27, 2019.
In a WhatsApp voice note on Tuesday, Davidson-Celestine said she believes the “latest shenanigans of the PDP are distractions from its leader's real issues of financial impropriety at WASA and the PSA.”
She also questioned the PSA’s role in last Sunday’s trade-union motorcade in Tobago. Davidson-Celestine observed the island’s public servants did not participate.
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