Gail Alexan­der

Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young has con­firmed that in Au­gust 2017 he spoke to and in­vit­ed OW­TU pres­i­dent gen­er­al An­cel Ro­get to meet with Prime Min­is­ter Kei­th Row­ley on Petrotrin mat­ters.

The Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter is­sued a state­ment on this Tues­day.

The state­ment signed by Young, con­firmed, "Hav­ing re­gard to the un­for­tu­nate po­si­tion tak­en by the Pres­i­dent-Gen­er­al of the Oil­field Work­ers’ Trade Union (OW­TU), Mr An­cel Ro­get, dur­ing a press con­fer­ence on Feb­ru­ary 7, 2022, I am com­pelled to con­firm that in Au­gust 2017 I spoke to An­cel Ro­get and in­vit­ed him to meet with Dr. the Ho­n­ourable Kei­th Row­ley, the Prime Min­is­ter of Trinidad and To­ba­go to dis­cuss mat­ters sur­round­ing Pe­tro­le­um Com­pa­ny of Trinidad and To­ba­go Lim­it­ed (Petrotrin)."

"I fur­ther con­firm that I made it clear at the time that I was ex­tend­ing this in­vi­ta­tion to Mr. Ro­get, that it was a per­son­al one from the Prime Min­is­ter."

"Mr Ro­get and I had sev­er­al con­ver­sa­tions re­lat­ed to this in­vi­ta­tion and even­tu­al­ly he de­clined."

Young added, "I trust that the de­nial by Mr Ro­get of his be­ing in­vit­ed by the Prime Min­is­ter to meet, and his defam­a­to­ry and un­true state­ments with re­spect to the Prime Min­is­ter, will end, with­out any fur­ther need for clar­i­fi­ca­tion of the truth."