While COP chair­man Car­olyn Seep­er­sad-Bachan says she's "pleased" no mat­ter in­volv­ing col­league Anil Roberts has been sent to the DPP, she main­tains Roberts has been asked to at­tend a COP meet­ing to­day to dis­cuss "the ac­cu­sa­tions" against him.She claimed her quo­ta­tions in a pre­vi­ous T&T Guardian ar­ti­cle on the is­sue–for which Roberts is su­ing her–had re­ferred to a prin­ci­ple" and wasn't in­dict­ing Roberts.

Seep­er­sad-Bachan, in a state­ment, said: "As COP chair­man it is my du­ty to en­sure that we as a par­ty ad­here to our ba­sic prin­ci­ples and in mat­ters where our mem­bers, es­pe­cial­ly our se­nior mem­bers are in­volved, we need to get their sides of the sto­ry. We did this re­cent­ly when Mr Ver­non de Li­ma was ac­cused of be­ing part of a plot to desta­bilise the coun­try.

"Even though the min­is­ter (Roberts) isn't fac­ing any ac­tion, the ac­cu­sa­tion has been made and his par­ty is ful­ly pre­pared to stand be­hind him if it is that he is be­ing un­just­ly ac­cused. Our po­si­tion is that Min­is­ter Roberts has been in­vit­ed to a meet­ing of the ex­ec­u­tive to dis­cuss the ac­cu­sa­tions against him. Our po­lit­i­cal leader, Prakash Ra­mad­har, is in full ac­cord with this."Roberts said yes­ter­day he isn't at­tend­ing any meet­ing.