The wajang and hooligan

PRIME MINISTER Patrick Manning yesterday said he fired Diego Martin West MP Dr Keith Rowley as Minister of Trade and Industry over alleged unruliness in a meeting of a sub- committee of Cabinet.

“It is my information that he (Dr Rowley) proceeded in a most atrocious fashion to prosecute a case. It has been described as a tirade and it went on for over five minutes,”
Manning said afterwards, he decided to speak to some ministers who had been in the meeting,
“One minister’s comments was that Dr Rowley was totally out of line, his attitude was uncalled for and his attitude was unbecoming of a senior cabinet minister.”

Manning said a second minister said it was “wajang behaviour”. “A third minister described it as hooligan behaviour. A fourth minister described it as unacceptable behaviour, and the fifth minister said, “‘I took no offence’.

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Deputy Police Commissioner Mervyn Richardson was forced to flee from a supermarket in East Trinidad on Friday after a group of shoppers began verbally abusing him.

Richardson, who was in the company of his wife at about 10 am on Friday, was placing grocery items on his trolley when some shoppers recognised him and began shouting and hurling abuses at him, accusing him of picking on Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley and taking sides in the probe. Some shoppers used obscene language as they roundly abused the senior police officer who, with his wife, left the D’Abadie supermarket , forced to go to a grocery where they could buy their food items.

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