The Donald Ramotar administration yesterday defended the verbal attack on outgoing United States (US) Ambassador Brent Hardt, hailing acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Priya Manickchand’s “feral and fitting blast” to Hardt.
“These things are decided by Cabinet. You believe any minister wakes up a morning and seh ‘Yuh know wuh? I going and get de wuk fuh mek de speech… and I gon decide wuh dis speech gon seh… that don’t happen, that don’t happen no way… the compilation and editing is what gave rise to that speech,” Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon told reporters yesterday.
Luncheon explained that the venue was chosen to deliver government’s message as Hardt would be leaving tomorrow and government did not intend to sit quietly and see Hardt breach sovereignty. “The annual July 4th (reception) presented the ideal opportunity…to deliver a legitimate or feral blast to the US Ambassador,” he said.
Manickchand was jeered and booed during her remarks at a reception hosted
