Dr Glenn Ramadharsingh yesterday denied owning six houses, saying he owned one house and land and is paying a mortgage to the bank. On Tuesday at a political meeting in Caroni, Independent Liberal Party (ILP) interim leader Jack Warner alleged a government minister in the “outer cabal,” who could not afford to buy two doubles in 2010, now owned six houses under the names of relatives and had been given houses as gifts from contractors.
At the press conference at his Caroni Central constituency office yesterday, Ramadharsingh said the Government was considering legal action against Warner for his allegations against government ministers. A pre-action protocol letter addressed to Warner was later issued on Ramadharsingh’s behalf. He told supporters at his office that Warner was trying his best to inflict pain on those opposing him. He called his former colleague an “evil clown” who was carrying out a circus to destroy people with lies and propaganda.
He said all the properties shown by Warner were either houses he rented or the homes of his relatives and Warner did not check his facts. He owed the bank and hardware store for a house he was building, he added. “I don't take people money and I don't buy homes that I can't afford,” Ramadharsingh said, adding Warner should not bring his ministry into any bacchanal. “I never ask any contractor to sponsor anything in my ministry. I ask Jack Warner, where the money gone?”
Chandreka Sahadeo, Ramadharsingh’s uncle, said Warner also lied about two houses shown on the lLP platform. Sahadeo said he also paid rent for government quarters at Las Lomas. “There are no Caroni houses in that area. That is one of the houses he lied about.” He said the house Warner referred to at Boy Cato and Madras Road was his house, which had been under construction for three years and produced a deed that showed he had bought it on September 21, 1998.
“That house was built and was not bought,” he said. An emotional Chandra Ramadharsingh, the minister’s mother, said her son had worked hard as a veterinarian to save money to start building a house. “Glenn used to work seven days of the week. He had no off-day,” she said. She said as a vet he earned three times more than a minister. “Why must Jack Warner do this wicked thing for?” she asked. “I want Jack Warner to take warning. What he put us through we will never forgive him,” she said.
Barrington “Skippy” Thomas, whom Warner also mentioned on the ILP platform on Tuesday, said yesterday Warner had recommended him for a Cepep contract. “I had to wake up 1.30 am in the morning and wait by his office like a lagahoo,” he said. Thomas said he accepted a Cepep contract in Edinburgh 500 to clean up the area and provide employment. He said he committed all the money from the contract to the community and his Cepep company already had given $60,000 in sporting equipment.
In further criticism of Warner’s Tuesday night meeting, Ramadharsingh said Warner should not bring any Guyanese to tell “people to thief “or have speakers on the ILP platform to talk race. He said he would function as the councillor for Longdenville-Edinburgh since the last councillor, Danan Singh, had jumped ship to the ILP. “Anybody have a problem, come and see me,” he said.