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Thursday, August 14, 2025

Constituents want probe first

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Res­i­dents of D'Abadie/O'Meara are call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to do a thor­ough in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to a video which pur­port­ed­ly shows a Gov­ern­ment min­is­ter rolling a mar­i­jua­na cig­a­rette in a ho­tel room.Speak­ing out yes­ter­day af­ter the tele­vised re­lease of the video on Wednes­day night, con­stituents ex­pressed sur­prise and dis­be­lief that the video which showed the min­is­ter rolling the cig­a­rette while chat­ting with a fe­male com­pan­ion, was re­al.One woman said: "I don't feel so. I will be sur­prised if it is true."

Ad­mit­ting she had seen the video, an­oth­er said: "He should set a bet­ter ex­am­ple as peo­ple look up to him."A third woman said: "If it's true, I think he should re­sign as we ex­pect a lot from them as min­is­ters. We vot­ed for them and the things we are hear­ing, it is not nice at all."Saman­tha Dowlat ex­pressed shock that a min­is­ter might be in­volved in such an in­ci­dent.Con­fi­dent that the min­is­ter had been wrong­ly ac­cused, Dowlat said: "I don't feel so. I don't think he will be in some­thing like that but they should in­ves­ti­gate be­fore re­mov­ing him."

Dowlat's hus­band said he was sad­dened to see the video but he sym­pa­thised with the sub­ject, adding: "If it is him, you have to un­der­stand that one can lose one's way and go down the wrong path. They must in­ves­ti­gate first and not just say false ac­cu­sa­tions against any­one."When the T&T Guardian vis­it­ed the of­fice of Anil Roberts, who rep­re­sents the con­stituen­cy, the two em­ploy­ees present of­fered no com­ment when asked about the mat­ter.One woman ush­ered the T&T Guardian out, say­ing: "You all have not been here in four years so why are you all com­ing now?"At Ha­gan's Bar next door, many pa­trons de­clined to com­ment, while one man, who said he had seen the video, shook his head sad­ly.


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