Dr Sylvia Moodie-Kublalsingh, wife of leader of the Highway Re-Route Movement (HRM) Dr Wayne Kublalsingh, who is normally accommodating to members of the media, said yesterday she “had had enough.”
Media personnel had gathered outside their residence at D’Abadie to attend a press conference by Gary Aboud, secretary of environmental lobby group Fishermen and Friends of the Sea. Before the event began Moodie-Kublalsingh spoke briefly to members of the media from inside her yard.
As if referring to the constant media attention, Moodie-Kublalsingh said she was “fed up of this charade”, adding she did not like it. Before walking to her front door, she said her husband was not up to speaking to members of the media as he had a very bad night. She said she had agreed "very reluctantly" to allow the press conference to be held outside her home but she could take no more at this point.
When the T&T Guardian called yesterday afternoon to speak to Kublalsingh, she said her husband was still feeling unwell and was unable to talk to anyone. Told of Moodie-Kublalsingh’s sentiments, Aboud said he informed her of the press briefing and requested her permission for it to be held on the pavement.
Over the weekend Kublalsingh had acknowledged that a press conference had been planned. He said it would mark 70 days of his second hunger strike, during which he claimed to have abstained from food and water in protest against the Debe to Mon Desir section of the Solomon Hochoy Highway extension into Point Fortin.