Google blanks T&T Govt request to remove YouTube videos

(Trinidad Guardian) A request from the T&T Government for the removal of ten videos currently posted on YouTube has been declined. The videos are parodies which feature Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and Attorney General Anand Ramlogan.

Nine of the videos feature Persad-Bissessar dancing with a bottle in hand, while Ramlogan is featured in an interview which took place last year with Head of News at TV6 Dominic Kalipersad. In the heated interview with Kalipersad on the topic of the state of emergency, the veteran newsman admonished the AG at one point thus: “Please don’t be rude.” So far, the videos have generated more than 300,000 hits.