At­tor­neys rep­re­sent­ing Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley have sent a pre-ac­tion pro­to­col let­ter to Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor David Nakhid al­leg­ing defama­tion in a Face­book post.

The let­ter was sent on June 23 by Adana Bain Fidu­cia Law Cham­bers. It stat­ed that on June 14 at 7.53 am, “you up­loaded to Face­book, a video record­ing on the Face­book page “Sen­a­tor David Nakhid,” and went on to quote some of the al­leged defam­a­to­ry words ut­tered in the Face­book broad­cast, in re­la­tion to the man­age­ment of COVID-19.

The let­ter claimed that the post con­tained “false and defam­a­to­ry state­ments of our client and are ac­tion­able un­der the law of defama­tion in the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go.” It said that the words used in the broad­cast “were plain­ly in­tend­ed by you to mean (a) Our client, as Prime Min­is­ter of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go, act­ed im­prop­er­ly...”

Nakhid, in an­oth­er post, called on the Prime Min­is­ter to “Bring it on.”

“If Kei­th Row­ley be­lieves that I came in­to pol­i­tics for games or fame, I’ll have him know he’s sad­ly mis­tak­en, I’ve had both games and fame in my ear­li­er life.....I am here to fix the his­tor­i­cal prob­lems that have plagued the East-West cor­ri­dor un­der the mis­man­age­ment and in­com­pe­tence of the PNM, and I in­tend to do so with all my re­sources at hand. Row­ley and this PNM has been the prime ar­chi­tect of the im­pov­er­ish­ment of our na­tion, by their ab­ject fail­ure in pro­tect­ing the lives and liveli­hoods of our cit­i­zens...I look for­ward with bat­ed breath to see­ing Kei­th Row­ley in Court un­der cross ex­am­i­na­tion, and have him ac­count for every­thing I ac­cuse him and the gov­ern­ment of do­ing....I say BRING IT ON ROW­LEY, BRING IT ON!!!”