IDA changes candidate after jail sentence

Po­lit­i­cal Leader of the In­no­v­a­tive De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Al­liance (IDA), Dr Denise Tsoiafatt An­gus has con­firmed that the par­ty is in the process of chang­ing its po­ten­tial can­di­date for Belle Gar­den/Glam­or­gan, af­ter its pre­vi­ous­ly an­nounced can­di­date, Tevin Duke, was sen­tenced to three months and 24 days in prison.

Dr Tsoiafatt An­gus told Guardian Me­dia that the sit­u­a­tion is un­for­tu­nate and that as soon as the par­ty was made aware of it, it be­gan tak­ing steps to change the po­ten­tial can­di­date for the area.

Ac­cord­ing to the TTPS me­dia re­lease, Duke, 30, a To­ba­go farmer of Belle Gar­den, re­ceived the sen­tence af­ter he ad­mit­ted to breach­ing a pro­tec­tion or­der for the third time.

He was sen­tenced when he ap­peared be­fore Mag­is­trate Avion Gill in the Scar­bor­ough Sec­ond Court on Wednes­day 3rd De­cem­ber 2025.

He plead­ed guilty to breach­ing a pro­tec­tion or­der that bars him from send­ing threat­en­ing mes­sages to the vic­tim.

Po­lice said Duke sent the vic­tim a Face­book mes­sage on 18th No­vem­ber 2025, threat­en­ing to kill her if he went to jail again.

He has al­ready served two pre­vi­ous jail terms for breach­ing pro­tec­tion or­ders.

W/ASP Pig­gott and Sgt Yorke su­per­vised the in­ves­ti­ga­tions, while WPC Kerr Kind laid the charges.