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Monday, July 7, 2025

Former Tourism Minister's ex-girlfriend says she's not up to political mischief

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I am not en­gag­ing in po­lit­i­cal mis­chief.

That's the state­ment by Sacha Singh, for­mer girl­friend of Tourism Min­is­ter Chan­dresh Shar­ma as she de­fend­ed her de­ci­sion to speak out about an in­ci­dent of as­sault which al­leged­ly oc­cured on March 12 at Grand Bazaar.

Singh, who con­firmed she was in a re­la­tion­ship with Shar­ma up to three weeks ago, is al­so the man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of AMS Biotech Se­cu­ri­ty Con­cept and Am­Sure T&T Lim­it­ed. She has since re­port­ed the in­ci­dent to the St Joseph po­lice sta­tion, trig­ger­ing a po­li­cein­ves­ti­ga­tion.

"It is not, (play­ing po­lit­i­cal mis­chief), I give them (her de­trac­tors) the full okay to do an in­ves­ti­ga­tion them­selves, they can get the po­lice re­port, they can get the med­ical re­port, I be­lieve when all the re­ports have come in from the po­lice and the com­mis­sion­er, then a prop­er de­ci­sion can be made, the Prime Min­is­ter or any­one can't make a de­ci­sion un­less the prop­er facts have been re­layed on pa­per," Singh said.

She was speak­ing yes­ter­day at a news con­fer­ence at Pi­ar­co Plaza, cor­ner Churchill­Roo­sevelt High­way and BWIA Boule­vard, Pi­ar­co, where she stat­ed her de­ci­sion to speak out about the al­leged in­ci­dent was based on prin­ci­ple and not pol­i­tics.

"It's not a fight to get him out, it's for him to un­der­stand that a wrong has been done and the prop­er rep­ri­mand­ing mea­sures and a prop­er jus­ti­fi­ca­tion should be giv­en for that. It is not my de­ci­sion, it is not what I think. It is what is right and that is what I stand by and you should not abuse a woman un­der any cir­cum­stances."

Though she has made no con­tact with Shar­ma since the al­leged in­ci­dent, Singh ad­mit­ted that she is scared for her life. Singh is now de­mand­ing that her "per­son­al" pic­tures be re­moved from the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress' Face­book page.

At­tempt­ing to give an ex­pla­na­tion about the pho­tos her long-time friend Cliff Paray, who was al­so at yes­ter­day's news con­fer­ence, said: "Just like any oth­er cou­ple we would send pho­tos to each oth­er, she end­ed up sav­ing the What­sApp con­ver­sa­tion as an e-mail and send­ing it to her­self, there­fore it was ac­cessed by her IT peo­ple and it was used in that im­prop­er way. I just want­ed to clar­i­fy, it has noth­ing to do with what is go­ing on now with the po­ten­tial as­sault charges."

Singh wel­comed a meet­ing with the Prime Min­is­ter to talk about the in­ci­dent should she be in­vit­ed for one.Po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tors were in her of­fice dur­ing the news con­fer­ence wait­ing to ques­tion her about the in­ci­dent.


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