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Former Prime Minister Stuart R. Young has publicly accused the Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago of a desperate and cowardly attempt to create a false narrative by reviewing his immigration travel records from his decade in government. In a Facebook video, Young said the Attorney General, under parliamentary privilege, admitted that state resources were used to ask Homeland Security and Immigration to pull all of his travel records covering the 10 years he served as a government minister and ended as prime minister. Young said the Attorney General initially claimed he had travelled over 156 times but quickly corrected that figure to 78 trips over 10 years, which Young attributed to counting outgoing and incoming travel together. He insisted that every trip was government business and that proper records exist for each one. He cited travel to Venezuela using the state air guard and to Panama via Copa Airlines when no direct flights to Venezuela were available because the air guard aircraft was not working. Addressing the issue of diplomatic passports, Young said he held one during his first five-year term as a government minister and another during his second five-year term. When he was sworn in as the eighth prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, he was presented with a passport identifying the bearer as the prime minister, and after demitting office, public servants issued him a new passport identifying him as the former prime minister. He asked, What is wrong with that? and reiterated that he has nothing to hide. Young accused the Attorney General of relying on parliamentary privilege to spread false narratives and said he does not need such privilege to speak about their wrongdoings. He said he has nothing to hide and will deal with them in good time. The statement escalates a public clash between a former prime minister and the sitting Attorney General over the use of state records and parliamentary privilege. Article and image source: facebook.com
Former Prime Minister Stuart R. Young has publicly accused the Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago of a desperate and cowardly attempt to create a false narrative by reviewing his immigration travel records from his decade in government. In a Facebook video, Young said the Attorney General, under parliamentary privilege, admitted that state resources were used to ask Homeland Security and Immigration to pull all of his travel records covering the 10 years he served as a government minister and ended as prime minister.
Young said the Attorney General initially claimed he had travelled over 156 times but quickly corrected that figure to 78 trips over 10 years, which Young attributed to counting outgoing and incoming travel together. He insisted that every trip was government business and that proper records exist for each one. He cited travel to Venezuela using the state air guard and to Panama via Copa Airlines when no direct flights to Venezuela were available because the air guard aircraft was not working.
Addressing the issue of diplomatic passports, Young said he held one during his first five-year term as a government minister and another during his second five-year term. When he was sworn in as the eighth prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, he was presented with a passport identifying the bearer as the prime minister, and after demitting office, public servants issued him a new passport identifying him as the former prime minister. He asked, What is wrong with that? and reiterated that he has nothing to hide.
Young accused the Attorney General of relying on parliamentary privilege to spread false narratives and said he does not need such privilege to speak about their wrongdoings. He said he has nothing to hide and will deal with them in good time. The statement escalates a public clash between a former prime minister and the sitting Attorney General over the use of state records and parliamentary privilege.
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