Richard Lord

Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er says the Gov­ern­ment is ex­pect­ed to make a state­ment on al­le­ga­tions of wrong­do­ing by Sasha Mo­hammed, ad­vis­er to the Prime Min­is­ter. Warn­er was com­ment­ing on po­lice re­ports that threat­en­ing e-mails were sent from Mo­hammed's home com­put­er to Ex­press Ed­i­tor-in-Chief Omatie Ly­der and re­porter An­na Ram­dass. The threats were re­port­ed­ly made in re­sponse to news re­ports about the for­mer em­ploy­ee of the Strate­gic In­tel­li­gence Agency (SIA) Resh­mi Ram­nar­ine. Warn­er said he was nev­er one to jump to con­clu­sion on any mat­ter "and there­fore I am sure in the ful­ness of time there shall be a state­ment."

He said he did not have the facts and as a re­sult could not com­ment on the mat­ter. "We seem to have a rush to judg­ment that every­body must step down (in T&T)," Warn­er said. "Too many per­sons are falling vic­tims to the me­dia hype, to (Op­po­si­tion Leader Kei­th) Row­ley and his fool­ish­ness." Row­ley had called pub­licly for the re­moval of Mo­hammed for her al­leged ac­tions. But Warn­er said the po­lice did not say that the threat­en­ing mes­sages were sent by Mo­hammed. He said if they were sent from her com­put­er, it did not nec­es­sar­i­ly mean it was sent by her.

He said on­ly af­ter all the ev­i­dence was pre­sent­ed could the is­sue of step­ping down be con­sid­ered.

Pressed for fur­ther com­ment, Warn­er said: "The Prime Min­is­ter will know what she has to do or not do...I am not go­ing to make judg­ment." Warn­er spent Fa­ther's Day yes­ter­day help­ing with the cook­ing at a lime at Cau­ra Riv­er. He al­so danced to tas­sa drum­ming with con­stituents at the event which was or­gan­ised by his Ch­agua­nas West con­stituen­cy.