THE Tobago Organisation of the People (TOP) rolled its political bandwagon through the Windward community of the sister-isle with a mini-motorcade two Sundays ago.
Led by its political leader, Ashworth Jack, the TOP held a spot meeting at the Roxborough Courtyard and then opened a full-service party office in the area.
Supported by his TOP parliamentary representatives in the central government for Tobago West Dr. Delmon Baker and Tobago East Vernella Alleyne-Toppin, Senator Pastor Terance Baynes as well as his TOP Assemblymen and a large retinue of party activists, the lively meeting gave a sneak preview into what to expect in the up-coming THA elections due by early 2013.
All the TOP speakers seemed to relish using the People’s National Movement (PNM) recent “Feeling the Pain” catch line. They almost in unison charged that it was the people of Tobago who had been feeling the pain from the rampant victimisation, discrimination and nepotism inflicted by the ruling regime, which has been in charge of the affairs of the THA for the past 11 years.
And when his turn came to address his party supporters, Jack wasted no time in launching a broadside attack on the mismanagement and wastage of the ruling PNM regime. “What can the PNM show, after 11 years and $20 billion?” he questioned. “Nothing!” answered the partisan crowd.
Jack listed four mega projects, namely the Financial Complex, the Scarborough Library, and Shaw Park Cultural Complex and the Scarborough Regional Hospital, which had accrued over $1.2 billion and counting in cost overruns, yet were still not completed.
Some of these projects have been overdue by as much as six to seven years,” he cried. Following the lengthy speech, Jack installed the Action Group executives of Argyle and Roxborough and then cut the ribbon to open for business the new TOP office.
