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Friday, July 25, 2025

Sinanan denies plot to remove Jennings-Smith

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Shaliza Hassanali
1883 days ago
20200530
Works and Transport Minister Rohan Sininan arrives at Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s, for the PNM’s screening session on Tuesday.

Works and Transport Minister Rohan Sininan arrives at Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s, for the PNM’s screening session on Tuesday.

ABRAHAM DIAZ

Hours af­ter she was re­ject­ed by the par­ty she was faith­ful to, in­cum­bent Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment To­co-San­gre Grande MP Glen­da Jen­nings-Smith post­ed a mes­sage on so­cial me­dia that one man planned a con­spir­a­cy to re­move her re­move and her sto­ry will be told.

“Thanks every­one. Es­pe­cial­ly Ro­han. I am out. But I am not done when one man can plan a con­spir­a­cy to re­move an in­cum­bent. My sto­ry will be told,” Jen­nings-Smith wrote on Face­book Fri­day af­ter be­ing re­placed by for­mer West In­dies and T&T crick­eter Mervyn Dil­lon.

In re­sponse to the post, how­ev­er, Sinanan, a PNM deputy po­lit­i­cal leader, said, “I am bound­ed by their de­ci­sion. I have noth­ing per­son­al­ly against any can­di­date. I have not been pro­mot­ing any in­di­vid­ual can­di­date.”

He said a lot of peo­ple feel that he had in­flu­ence in se­lect­ing the To­co-San­gre Grande can­di­date but this was not true.

“I par­tic­u­lar­ly try to stay out of this,” Sinanan said, not­ing he shares a close re­la­tion­ship with Jen­nings-Smith.

“At no point in time Glen­da and I have been at log­ger­heads. As a mat­ter of fact, I was very in­stru­men­tal in bring­ing Glen­da for­ward to of­fer her­self as a can­di­date in the 2015 gen­er­al elec­tions. At the end of the day I think Glen­da would have done a very good job. At this time the par­ty did not se­lect her.”

Asked if he tried to un­der­mine Jen­nings-Smith, Sinanan said he had no rea­son to.

“I did not seek any nom­i­na­tion for any con­stituen­cy.”

Calls and text mes­sages to Jen­nings-Smith’s cell­phone went unan­swered Friday.

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