Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says Jack Warner’s allegations about a Government minister owning a house in Canada are scandalous, malicious and completely untrue. Speaking at the UNC’s Monday Night Forum at Felicity Hindu School last evening, the PM rejected the allegations outright, adding it was “the cry of a desperate man shooting at everyone in his sight as he falls.“ She said she was now certain Warner and PNM leader Dr Keith Rowley had formed a new partnership and were working like a tag team, adding they were the new Batman and Robin of T&T. “Don’t you find it strange that Jack Warner and Keith Rowley are the only two persons in the world who seem to know about this so-called house that a UNC minister corruptly acquired in Canada?” the PM noted, adding Warner was helping the PNM promote its two mantras: Race and corruption.
She added: “Although they both claim to know about this corrupt acquisition, neither of them is willing to name the minister. “Don’t you find it strange that Jack makes the same allegation the very day after Dr Rowley attacked us with the same allegation?” Persad-Bissessar said she wanted to know if Warner had that information while he was a minister in her Cabinet. She said her former national security minister “is conspiring with the PNM to put us out of office.” The PM said it had become “clear that the former Member of Parliament has gone mad in the last few days of this campaign.”
Referring to a claim Warner made about her own sister having a diplomatic passport and of his threats to further expose candidate Khadijah Ameen, the PM said: “Jack Warner is a secret agent of the PNM. He is an undercover PNM operative. The ILP is the PNM’s ‘B’ team in this election. “That is why, all of a sudden, Dr Rowley has gone silent on Jack. That is why, Jack has stopped attacking the PNM.” She urged party supporters not repeat our mistakes of the past. “Beware of a green Trojan horse that carries the PNM traitor inside. You must protect and defend the UNC at all costs,” she added.