Gail Alexan­der

A seething Jack Warn­er yes­ter­day put UNC leader Bas­deo Pan­day on no­tice that he will be com­ing in­to Pan­day's Cou­va North seat next Fri­day to hold a pub­lic meet­ing when Warn­er will an­swer re­cent ac­cu­sa­tions against him. Warn­er al­so is­sued a warn­ing that he would "come af­ter" Ch­agua­nas deputy May­or, Or­lan­do Nages­sar, for al­low­ing Pan­day to use Nages­sar's of­fice on Thurs­day when mem­bers of Warn­er's Ch­agua­nas West con­stituen­cy came to meet Pan­day.

Warn­er, speak­ing from Nige­ria, ac­cused Nages­sar and Pan­day of try­ing to make Ch­agua­nas May­or, Natasha Navas, un­com­fort­able. "I'm com­ing af­ter him (Nages­sar) and I will make his life mis­er­able," Warn­er said. "He (Nages­sar) will be sor­ry he ever took on the may­or." He added, "They are try­ing to make her life mis­er­able be­cause of me! But I am telling them both - come af­ter me di­rect­ly!"

Asked his view on Pan­day's meet­ing with Ch­agua­nas West mem­bers, Warn­er added, "I'm not tak­ing him on. I will an­swer Pan­day and Nages­sar and all their ac­cu­sa­tions and ac­tions when I speak from the plat­form in Cou­va North next Fri­day night - Nages­sar will re­gret he ever at­tacked the young la­dy."

Warn­er al­so said he would com­ment from the plat­form on the move by UNC 's ex­ec­u­tive to send his Ram­jack col­leagues MPs Ramesh Ma­haraj and Win­ston Pe­ters be­fore the par­ty's dis­ci­pli­nary com­mit­tee. Warn­er was not re­ferred to the team how­ev­er. Warn­er said, "All Pan­day is try­ing to do is use the old di­vide-and-con­quer strat­e­gy–that's clear. It ent go work."

Es­tranged UNC MP, Win­ston Pe­ters, said he will re­sign from the UNC mem­ber­ship and "per­haps join an­oth­er par­ty" if Pan­day con­tin­ued as UNC leader or even sub­mit him­self for nom­i­na­tion in UNC's in­ter­nal elec­tions ahead. ?Pe­ters said, "It was not un­ex­pect­ed that they would re­fer us to the dis­ci­pli­nary com­mit­tee. It's a kan­ga­roo court. But we have at­tor­neys who will tell us what to do." Ma­haraj in a re­lease said the dis­ci­pli­nary process was un­law­ful and that the en­tire UNC ex­ec­u­tive should be dis­ci­plined in­stead since "they were bring­ing the par­ty in­to dis­re­pute." (sic). He said the ex­ec­u­tive had no man­date from mem­bers to take such ac­tion.

Bas Re­sponds

"I feel very good about Warn­er's im­pend­ing vis­it to Cou­va North. We'll be wait­ing on them and we'll be ready. I'm par­tic­u­lar­ly glad that for once he'll be in the coun­try for a change. And I have every in­ten­tion of re­turn­ing to the Ch­agua­nas deputy may­or's of­fice next Thurs­day to con­tin­ue meet­ing Ch­agua­nas West con­stituents."