PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar has denied reports that Tobago Development Minister Dr. Delmon Baker had resigned from her Cabinet due to allegations of improper conduct.

“That is totally untrue. He remains a member of my government,” she told the NEWSDAY newspaper on Wednesday.

There had been widespread speculation that Baker, a member of the Tobago Organisation of the People (TOP), one of the four parties in the coalition People’s Partnership government, had submitted his resignation.