For a sec­ond time in less than two years, Wat­son Duke had to be es­cort­ed out of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Leg­is­la­ture cham­ber, af­ter re­fus­ing to stay qui­et while com­plain­ing about the use of in­sults by an as­sem­bly­man dur­ing a de­bate.

Yes­ter­day, Duke ac­cused As­sem­bly­man Ter­rence Baynes of breach­ing the stand­ing or­ders, af­ter Baynes de­scribed some con­tri­bu­tions made in the cham­ber as “la­trine-at­ed” talk.

From his seat, Duke loud­ly voiced his com­plaints, dis­rupt­ing the pro­ceed­ings.

Pre­sid­ing of­fi­cer Ab­by Tay­lor paused the de­bate to cau­tion Duke, but he per­sist­ed, re­peat­ed­ly shout­ing, “This is not a Mick­ey Mouse house.”

As a re­sult, Tay­lor in­struct­ed of­fi­cers to re­move Duke from the cham­ber.

Duke ini­tial­ly re­fused to get up when one of­fi­cer came to his seat and an­oth­er of­fi­cer joined his col­league to es­cort him out the cham­ber. Duke protest­ed the of­fi­cers ap­proach­ing him to car­ry out their or­der and did not im­me­di­ate­ly get up to leave ei­ther. Tay­lor even­tu­al­ly called the sit­ting to a short break. Mo­ments lat­er, Duke left.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia af­ter­wards, he said he felt tar­get­ed, par­tic­u­lar­ly since he is no longer a part of the Far­ley Au­gus­tine-led ad­min­is­tra­tion. He again ac­cused the pre­sid­ing of­fi­cer of dis­crim­i­na­tion.

On his Face­book page, he lat­er post­ed, “The as­sem­bly Pre­sid­ing Of­fi­cer has con­sis­tent­ly dis­re­gard­ed the rights of As­sem­bly mem­bers who do not align with “Far­ley-ites.” She has over­seen re­peat­ed vi­o­la­tions of Stand­ing Or­ders Ar­ti­cle 45 by the Mem­ber for Bethel/Grange, fail­ing to in­ter­vene. In­stead, she has over­stepped her au­thor­i­ty as de­fined in the Stand­ing Or­ders, us­ing in­tim­i­da­tion and bul­ly­ing tac­tics against those mem­bers of the as­sem­bly who op­pose “Far­ley and Friends” in their de­bates.”

The first time Duke faced dis­ci­pli­nary ac­tion was dur­ing a 2024 sit­ting. He was cau­tioned af­ter com­plain­ing about be­ing un­fair­ly treat­ed and skipped dur­ing a mo­tion de­bate. He was asked to leave af­ter re­fus­ing to be qui­et.

He is ex­pect­ed to host a me­dia con­fer­ence on the mat­ter to­day.