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Monday, July 7, 2025

Blows for Barrington, PM disgusted with remarks

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Radhica De Silva
1957 days ago
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Repenting? Activist and Radio talk show host Barrington “Skippy” Thomas shows off the ashes he received yesterday after attending mass.

Repenting? Activist and Radio talk show host Barrington “Skippy” Thomas shows off the ashes he received yesterday after attending mass.

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Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley says he is dis­gust­ed with an at­tack on a sev­en-year-old child by Ra­dio Talk show host at Pow­er 102 FM, Bar­ring­ton ‘Skip­py’ Thomas, who al­leged­ly made defam­a­to­ry re­marks about the child whose moth­er pho­tographed her with Dr Row­ley on Car­ni­val Tues­day.

The mat­ter has al­so en­gaged the at­ten­tion of the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, PM Row­ley linked the at­tack to the Op­po­si­tion Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress. Row­ley said, “I have seen it and I am dis­gust­ed .... such sick and nasty be­hav­iour from a ra­dio per­son­al­i­ty like Bar­ring­ton Thomas who is do­ing noth­ing that Ver­nel­la Al­leyne did not at­tempt to do to me for the po­lit­i­cal ben­e­fit of his pay­mas­ters in the UNC.”

Row­ley added, “This sense­less de­bas­ing of this child and her par­ents comes from the hymn book of the UNC. It is sim­ply an­oth­er at­tempt at slan­der­ing me with a re­volt­ing nar­ra­tive which they all be­lieve will dam­age me and re­dound to the ben­e­fit of the UNC. “

He said this was not the first at­tempt to as­sas­si­nate his char­ac­ter.

“You may re­call some­time last year Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar put some young moth­er, who is whol­ly un­known to me, on a UNC plat­form to say that I was in­ap­pro­pri­ate with her sev­en-year-old daugh­ter? When that failed to stir the sen­si­ble pub­lic she brought on one called Carl­ton Den­nie on the UNC plat­form to tell a most mon­strous lie that I in­struct­ed him to fire all In­di­ans at the SSA. All of this is of re­cent vin­tage but is not dis­con­nect­ed from the old­er woman from Diego Mar­tin who was pro­duced by Ian Al­leyne un­der Mrs Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s guid­ance in 2015, to say that I as­sault­ed her teenage daugh­ter al­most 30 years ago,” Row­ley said.

He added, “Then there were the Mooni­lal ban­ners in south Trinidad mak­ing sim­i­lar claims and of course there was Ver­nel­la Al­leyne-Top­pin in the Par­lia­ment un­der the guid­ance and ap­proval of Mrs Kam­la Per­sad—Bisses­sar and Roodal Mooni­lal.”

Row­ley said whilst this lat­est be­hav­iour of this for­mer UNC can­di­date/ con­vict should out­rage every de­cent, right think­ing cit­i­zen “just re­mem­ber it is no ac­ci­dent or mad­ness.”

“It is all part of a das­tard­ly plan con­stant­ly be­ing put to work by a group of cit­i­zens who care about on­ly them­selves and don’t give a hoot whom they de­stroy in their quest for po­lit­i­cal pow­er. This is to be con­demned and the ar­chi­tects should be cen­sored,” he added.

He al­so said, “I trust that giv­en the lev­el of in­de­cen­cy and bold­faced­ness that the rel­e­vant au­thor­i­ty could come to the aid of these par­ents and cer­tain­ly pro­tect this in­no­cent child.”

Mean­while, op­er­a­tions man­ag­er at Pow­er 102 Ruben Mo­hammed said the sta­tion is look­ing in­to what tran­spired to de­ter­mine whether any ac­tion needs to be tak­en. He said, “The sta­tion will al­ways do what is right for the sta­tion, its share­hold­ers and the au­di­ence.”


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