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PDP leader Watson Duke says he was never against Sandals Resorts coming to Tobago.
Duke and THA Chief Secretary Farley Augustine were called out by outgoing Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley on Saturday on Sandals' decision some years ago to withdraw from its proposed project in Tobago.

TV6'S Elizabeth Williams reports.
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00:00I was never against Sanders. I was against the methodology used to build
00:08Sanders and I will always be against that methodology where the government's
00:12finance and build everything and then ask Sanders to come and operate it and
00:18then put our people as with the boys and with the girls. We don't want to build a
00:23nation of with the boys and with the girls. You want to build a nation of
00:26forward-thinking people, people who are Prime Minister material, people who are
00:30leadership material. After Mr. Duke was called out on Saturday by Prime
00:35Minister Dr. Keith Rowley on the Sandals project, the media questioned him on his
00:40willingness to meet with Sandals group head Adam Stewart. Well of course I speak
00:46to Mr. Adam Stewart and the potential Prime Minister to be. I'm Stewart Chang
00:51and all of them and I speak to the people of Tobago. We are all for
00:54development but development must be on terms that benefit the people of Tobago
00:59and see the rise of Tobagoans, not where Tobagoans holding up. The lowly end of
01:05the employment ladder as bellboys, bellgirls and water fetchers, we don't
01:09want those work. When contacted on the matter Chief Secretary Farley Acoustin
01:14said he preferred not to comment on the matter. Meantime Mr. Duke labeled the
01:19completion of the construction of the new terminal at the A&R Robinson
01:24International Airport as a pre-election campaign launch for the PNM. Today I see
01:30it as a campaign launch. In particular Tobago seats are dicey and the message
01:35to Tobagoans are we have delivered the airport, seaferry and it's up to Duke and
01:43Farley to populate the airport now with people coming to Sanders and other big
01:49name hotels. Elizabeth Williams TV6 News
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