(Trinidad Express) National Security Minister Jack Warner yesterday publicly apologised to Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar for calling her a drunk three years ago.
He said he was misled by former attorney general Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj.
Warner was taking issue with comments made by former People’s Partnership government minister Verna St Rose Greaves on CNC3’s morning show where she questioned the Prime Minister’s ability to function and also alleged that Ministers had files against her.
Warner condemned St Rose Greaves for her comments.
For the first time Warner explained his comments against Persad-Bissessar some years ago – saying that Maharaj had come to him and told him that Persad-Bissessar was intoxicated and fell down in India – which was not true.
Warner said he did not check the facts and after learning that this was false he apologised to the Prime Minister and now he was publicly doing so.
He lambasted both St Rose Greaves who visited and lent support to hunger striker Dr Wayne Kublalsingh.
“Where you have Kublalsingh on the corner of the pavement playing the fool for the past eight days. There is nothing anyone can do. A former minister of Government, she likes to use a bell, and she was again castigating the Prime Minister and she was implying how I am holding something over the Prime Minister’s head. That too is a crime, that is what I find difficulty in fighting. The police can’t fight that, we must fight that,” said Warner.
The Minister vowed to protect and defend the Prime Minister against anyone who attacks her – including journalists.
He was speaking at Geeta’s Restaurant and Steakhouse in Point Fortin where he had gone to reward police officers financially for their role in seizing arms and ammunition.
“(Some) journalists believe that they could use the papers and TV to malign the prime minister. That is a crime which I will fight. The crime gun running and drugs and murder and so on (police) will do it. The crime against Mrs Persad-Bissessar and her Government I will fight,” said Warner.
