The Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment was un­able to pro­vide an up­date on how yes­ter­day’s cau­cus went, even as the par­ty con­sid­ers whether to ask the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion to in­ves­ti­gate Hous­ing Min­is­ter Anil Roberts.

Con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ed Roberts’s dis­clo­sure of HDC doc­u­ments linked to the fam­i­ly of St Vin­cent Prime Min­is­ter Dr Ralph Gon­salves. Par­ty of­fi­cials said a de­ci­sion would be tak­en at the meet­ing, but al­though sources con­firmed it took place, no one re­spond­ed to con­firm its out­come.

On Tues­day, Roberts post­ed a Face­book video ac­cus­ing Gon­salves of be­ing dis­re­spect­ful to Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar. He claimed the Gon­salves fam­i­ly re­ceived “great ben­e­fits” from the for­mer PNM ad­min­is­tra­tion and dis­played HDC doc­u­ments for three Vic­to­ria Keyes apart­ments owned by Gon­salves’s wife, Eloise, son, Storm, and daugh­ter, Soleil Gon­salves.

For­mer hous­ing min­is­ter Ran­dall Mitchell said Roberts may have breached the In­tegri­ty in Pub­lic Life Act by dis­clos­ing “con­fi­den­tial in­for­ma­tion” on the pur­chas­es. The PNM al­so ar­gued Roberts is at­tempt­ing to de­flect from the Life­s­port is­sue and stressed Vic­to­ria Keyes is an open mar­ket de­vel­op­ment.

Guardian Me­dia asked the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion whether Roberts’ pub­lic dis­clo­sure could breach sec­tion 28 of the Act, which states “Mat­ters of a con­fi­den­tial na­ture in the pos­ses­sion of per­sons to whom this part ap­plies, shall be kept con­fi­den­tial un­less the per­for­mance of du­ty or the needs of jus­tice strict­ly re­quire oth­er­wise, and shall re­main con­fi­den­tial even af­ter sep­a­ra­tion from ser­vice.”

The Com­mis­sion said it is “statu­to­ri­ly pro­hib­it­ed from dis­clos­ing its records and in­for­ma­tion” ex­cept in spe­cif­ic cir­cum­stances and is there­fore “con­strained from pro­vid­ing com­ments.”