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Friday, July 18, 2025

Ramadhar disappointed at Warner's reaction

...'Noth­ing per­son­al against Jack'

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While "per­son­al­ly pained" at Jack Warn­er's dis­ap­point­ment in him, Con­gress of the Peo­ple deputy leader Prakash Ra­mad­har has main­tained his po­si­tion that Warn­er should step down while a FI­FA probe does its work. "I hope Mr Warn­er heard what I ac­tu­al­ly said and not what head­lines say," Ra­mad­har added yes­ter­day. "I asked him to step aside un­til the probe is com­plet­ed and I in­di­cat­ed hope that the probe is suc­cess­ful­ly con­clud­ed so he can re­turn to work." Ra­mad­har was re­spond­ing yes­ter­day to dis­ap­point­ment which Warn­er ex­pressed about Ra­mad­har's state­ment that Warn­er should step down.

Warn­er wad­ed in­to Ra­mad­har's state­ments when he ar­rived home from Zurich on Thurs­day at Pi­ar­co.

Yes­ter­day in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives, there was a no­tice­able cool­ness be­tween both, as Warn­er was greet­ed by many Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship MPs. Speak­ing ahead of the House ses­sion, Ra­mad­har told the Trinidad Guardian: "Jack is a col­league of mine and I con­tin­ue to ad­mire his abil­i­ty and great charm.

"I take per­son­al pain in his dis­ap­point­ment in me but when I get to meet him, I will let him know it's noth­ing against him per­son­al­ly, it is all about de­vel­op­ing T&T," he said. "His dis­ap­point­ment in me is mis­placed...I came in­to pol­i­tics based on prin­ci­ple not per­son­al­i­ty so this has noth­ing to do with Jack as a per­son.

"It is about the stan­dards we wish to set in so­ci­ety and the right thing...We can­not be talk­ing about change and when change comes, we crit­i­cise it. "This has noth­ing do with COP cam­paign­ing. "I was asked a ques­tion about Jack by the me­dia and I re­spond­ed...I could not have shirked my re­spon­si­bil­i­ty as deputy leader. "I take no plea­sure in say­ing these things and I wish we didn't have to deal with the is­sue con­cern­ing Jack-but we have to. On Warn­er's com­ment about toe­ing the line, Ra­mad­har said:

"I didn't come in­to pol­i­tics to toe the line...We in COP, stand firm­ly for what we be­lieve in and to be right.

"The Prime Min­is­ter made a state­ment (on the is­sue) and we have the right to dis­agree, but in a man­ner that will bear fruit, strength­en the Part­ner­ship and help us learn from each oth­er and grow as a re­sult of the dif­fer­ent points of view," he said. "We're not here to toe any line...We must move to draw­ing new lines be­cause it is toe­ing cer­tain old lines which have led to the Calder Harts and oth­ers which the PP fought against."9


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