[UPDATED] Duke: I regret not being Chief Secretary

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[UPDATED] Duke: I regret not being Chief Secretary

The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday Tobago PDP leader Watson Duke. - File photo by Angelo Marcelle PROGRESSIVE Democratic Patriots (PDP) political leader Watson Duke says he regrets not becoming Chief Secretary of the Tobago House of Assembly (THA). Had he been elected to the position, he said, Tobago would not have been grappling with eight murders for 2024. At a news conference on May 9 at the PDP’s head office in Scarborough, Duke lamented the shooting […]

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