“change the course” of the island. “Do not waste it,” she urged them in her address at the party’s special convention and campaign launch at Rovanel’s Resort, Store Bay Local Road, Bon Accord.

The TPP has announced retired assistant fire chief David Thomas and Secretary of Community Development, Youth Development and Sport Joel Sampson as its candidates for the Tobago East and Tobago West seats, respectively, in the April 28 general election. Brebnor said: “I hear people talking about they don’t like to vote for general election and they go wait until THA (elections). But by the time the THA comes, we may have nothing to vote for. Do not waste it.” She said the government’s handling of the displacement exercise to facilitate the expansion of the ANR Robinson International Airport is just one of the reasons why Tobagonians should vote against the PNM. Brebnor, who is also the Secretary of Health, Wellness and Social Protection, recalled that one of the meetings for the displaced residents of Canaan/Bon Accord/Crown Point, took place in the same room where the convention was held.

She said she was a minority councillor at the time and made it her business to go to Rovanel’s even though she was affected by the project. “I heard them talking about the airport and not just the airport, because we have no issue with the airport. I heard them talking about relocation of the people. “And I leave my house in Belle Garden, when nobody wasn’t talking about relocating anybody from Belle Garden. But I made it my business to come down here to listen to them and I sat in this room and I saw the member for Tobago East (Ayanna Webster-Roy) and the member for Tobago West (Shamfa Cudjoe-Lewis) sit quietly in a corner.” Brebnor said Webster-Roy and Cudjoe-Lewis “sat and they allowed what happened here with those residents to happen. “They sat quietly. I see them with my own two eyes. Nobody ain't tell me that story.” She recalled Finance Minister Colm Imbert had responded to questions from the residents. (Trinidad and Tobago Newsday)