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Saturday, July 26, 2025

What Chandresh Sharma said after he resigned

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Fol­low­ing is­the full state­ment from for­mer Tourism Min­is­ter Chan­dresh Shar­ma, is­sued on his res­ig­na­tion on March 31.

I have al­ways said that my en­try in­to pub­lic of­fice is about ser­vice to the peo­ple not about me. Some say it is a thank­less task, but for me each day brings a lev­el of sat­is­fac­tion that is im­mea­sur­able. I have served my coun­try faith­ful­ly and self­less­ly for close to two decades. Dur­ing this en­tire pe­ri­od my per­son­al life has nev­er been the sub­ject of pub­lic dis­course. I am not the sto­ry, the work I do is the full ac­count of who I hap­pen to be.

I ac­knowl­edge, how­ev­er, that pub­lic life comes with a lev­el of scruti­ny and ex­pec­ta­tion that does not al­low for con­sid­er­a­tion of your ver­sion of events. With the sto­ries swirling around on my per­son­al life even seek­ing to clar­i­fy the is­sues through state­ments will un­doubt­ed­ly be coun­tered by oth­ers. So that is not an op­tion. I will not al­low these al­le­ga­tions to de­tract from the good work of the gov­ern­ment nor to sul­ly the name of my par­ty.

Any­thing I at­tempt to say on the mat­ter will on­ly serve to feed the is­sue. It is there­fore with a heavy heart but a light spir­it of com­mit­ment to my coun­try and recog­ni­tion of the bur­den of re­spon­si­bil­i­ty I hold as a Min­is­ter of Gov­ern­ment that I of­fer the Ho­n­ourable Prime Min­is­ter of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go, my un­re­served res­ig­na­tion.

I will con­tin­ue pri­vate­ly to clear my name in the in­ter­est of jus­tice. No fur­ther pub­lic state­ment on mat­ters per­tain­ing to the al­leged in­ci­dent will be made as it is en­tire­ly a mat­ter for my at­tor­neys to han­dle.

I wish to take the op­por­tu­ni­ty to thank my con­stituents for repos­ing their faith in me and to pledge to con­tin­ue serv­ing them.I ex­press my heart­felt grat­i­tude as well to my Cab­i­net col­leagues and oth­ers for their words of en­cour­age­ment and un­der­stand­ing, and to the Ho­n­ourable Prime Min­is­ter for pro­vid­ing me the op­por­tu­ni­ty to have served the na­tion.

I am a firm be­liev­er in kar­ma and trust that the fu­ture will work it­self out through the life I have lived, the judge­ment of which I leave ul­ti­mate­ly to God.

Thank you all.


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