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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Jack fires Volney from Sunshine

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Leader of the In­de­pen­dent Lib­er­al Par­ty (ILP) Jack Warn­er says he fired for­mer MP and jus­tice min­is­ter Her­bert Vol­ney from writ­ing in his Sun­shine news­pa­per be­cause Vol­ney vac­il­lat­ed from his po­si­tion and that would have caused "lack of con­fi­dence" in the pa­per.Warn­er fired Vol­ney on Wednes­day, the same day the for­mer judge said he ac­cept­ed full re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for the procla­ma­tion of Sec­tion 34 of the Ad­min­is­tra­tion of Jus­tice (In­dictable Pro­ceed­ings) Act, which caused a scan­dal.Vol­ney al­so apol­o­gised to the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al, who had filed a law­suit against him for defama­tion over state­ments Vol­ney had made about Ram­lo­gan's role in the scan­dal.Warn­er's Sun­shine was launched af­ter he left Gov­ern­ment and has car­ried a num­ber of an­ti-PP ar­ti­cles.

He said he wrote to Vol­ney on Wednes­day telling him Sun­shine man­age­ment had agreed to stop Vol­ney's week­ly col­umn with im­me­di­ate ef­fect.His let­ter to Vol­ney said: "The cred­i­bil­i­ty of our con­trib­u­tors is crit­i­cal to the im­age of our news­pa­per and as such any­one who vac­il­lates on a po­si­tion can­not in­stil con­fi­dence in our read­ers and af­fects the in­tegri­ty of our pa­pers. In this re­gard we have been forced to make our de­ci­sion."Warn­er said Vol­ney had changed his view and the pa­per, which he owns, would have been af­fect­ed by these in­con­sis­ten­cies.Warn­er said Vol­ney re­spond­ed: "It was a great plea­sure to have con­tributed to the Sun­shine over the last year. I wish you the very best for the Sun­shine in the next year."

Vol­ney said yes­ter­day peo­ple were en­ti­tled to their opin­ions about his apol­o­gy and he was com­fort­able with it."T&T is po­larised, 40 per cent PNM, 40 per cent UNC and 20 per cent silent ma­jor­i­ty [sic] that de­cides the out­come of every gen­er­al elec­tion.The 40 per cent of PNM is the most vo­cal and they and the unions who are march­ing are chastis­ing me. I just don't lis­ten to them on the ra­dio."Vol­ney, who said he was an ILP mem­ber, said he had noth­ing to do with the PP. He said if had to "go back" any­where it would be to the UNC."But I think I'll re­main with the 20 per cent silent ma­jor­i­ty," he added.


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