UNTIL the controversial Public Procurement and Disposal of Property (Amendment) Bill, 2020 is withdrawn by the Government, the United National Congress (UNC) will not be supporting any legislation brought to the Parliament, said UNC Senator Wade Mark.
âWe will not co-operate with them until they bring back the original Public Procurement Act. We will isolate them. We will expose them at every turn. We will not co-operate with the PNM (Peopleâs National Movement) and the four horsemen of the apocalypse,â Mark stated yesterday at a news conference at the Office of the Opposition Leader in Port of Spain.
The senator said the amendment to the parent legislation by the Dr Keith Rowley-led administration had effectively legalised âthievery, banditry and naked and wholesome corruptionâ.
National Security Minister
Stuart Young.
MINISTER of National Security Stuart Young on Tuesday in the Senate flatly denied the Coast Guard had any involvement in last Saturday’s tragic drowning of a boatload of Venezuelan citizens who were heading to Trinidad.
At last count, the bodies of 19 victims had been found in the sea, including an 11-month-old baby and children two, six and eight years old.
Young replied to an urgent question by Senator Wade Mark, who asked if counselling was being offered to victims’ relatives in TT.
“Madam President, the loss of life in this tragic manner is upsetting,” Young said. “We, the Governmen,t are aware that bodies were recovered close to the Venezuelan town of Guiria and in Venezuelan waters. We have also been informed that unfortunately yesterday (Monday) more bodies were found on the shoreline of Venezuela.”
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Young: I hope guard is charged for child rape
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MINISTER of National Security Stuart Young said he hoped a security guard who reportedly raped an underage girl at a safe house will be charged for the crime.
His remark came on Tuesday in the Senate, where he was replying to an urgent question posed to the Prime Minister by Opposition Senator Wade Mark, who asked about steps to address reports of rape and abuse at a safe house.
Young said, “There has been one, recent, again very tragic, disturbing and upsetting report of a young female being abused by a private-sector security guard at a safe house.”
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