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Rooki3 wrote:jack always delivers
rfari wrote:zoom rader wrote:All this beat up for jack, meanwhile in PNM they beating up and slapping people
Leh dem man talk and clear he name nah. Is big files gonna drop later
we used to make dem joke about him being national security minister and look what happen and how it endedshake d livin wake d dead wrote:imagine Jack as new PNM leader
toyota2nr wrote:rfari wrote:zoom rader wrote:All this beat up for jack, meanwhile in PNM they beating up and slapping people
Leh dem man talk and clear he name nah. Is big files gonna drop later
Real bacchanal. It could lead to the government collapse. But as long as he deal with Rowley and PNM.....
RIPEBREDFRUIT wrote:Ah go bounce yuh later there AllTRac, leh we go and hear wha jack hafta announce in person.
YOu buying first rounds ah shandy
Jack Warner resigns
Here we go again
Apr 25th 2013, 13:51 by M.W. | PORT OF SPAIN
AN ENORMOUS national flag flies alongside the unattractive road from Trinidad’s airport to the capital, Port of Spain. It marks the João Havelange Centre of Excellence, an untidy 16-acre sprawl containing a football stadium, conference centre, hotel and swimming pool, once believed to be the proud possession of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF).
A report published by CONCACAF on April 19th concluded that the complex was the subject of a fraud perpetrated by Trinidad and Tobago’s security minister and former CONCACAF president, Jack Warner. Almost $26m of CONCACAF money paid for the development, but it does not appear to be CONCACAF property. The land it sits on is owned by three companies controlled by Mr Warner and his family members. Two days after the report’s publication, Mr Warner resigned from his cabinet post.
It is not the first time he has had to step down following a corruption scandal. Mr Warner was CONCACAF’s president from 1990 to 2011, and was also a vice president of FIFA, football’s governing body. He resigned from those posts in June 2011, after evidence emerged that Mohamed Bin Hamman, a candidate in a FIFA presidential election, had tried to bribe Caribbean delegates at a meeting in Port of Spain.
The CONCACAF inquiry was a thorough piece of work. It was led by Sir David Simmons, a respected former chief justice of Barbados. It found that on the balance of probabilities, Mr Warner committed fraud and misappropriated funds, and reached equally damning conclusions about CONCACAF’s former general secretary, Charles “Chuck” Blazer. Sir David’s team collected over four terabytes of data for sifting. Mr Warner and Mr Blazer declined to give evidence, and many written records from CONCACAF’s Trinidad office could not be traced.
Mr Warner’s first reaction to its findings was to scoff. The report was “baseless and malicious,” he said. The Centre was a gift to him from the eponymous Mr Havelange, a former FIFA president, he claimed, adding: “I will continue to sleep very soundly at nights.”
Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, returned on April 20th from a trip to the United States. She called a Sunday cabinet meeting. After three and a half hours of talk, Mr Warner left. Two hours later, Mrs Persad-Bissessar said she had accepted his resignation. The next day, he also stepped down as chairman of the United National Congress (UNC), the leading party in Trinidad’s coalition government.
Allegations of wrongdoing by Mr Warner have been rife for more than two decades. After resigning he said: “That thing about CONCACAF and FIFA is so spurious...[It] has been in the public domain for God knows how long. I felt there was some plan or move to get me...My ministry is squeaky clean.” Indeed, many of the report’s findings are not new. Wired868, a sports-news website, published ownership details of the Centre of Excellence site in June last year, three weeks before Mr Warner’s appointment as national security minister.
Mr Warner is a polarising figure in Trinidad and Tobago. Ministry staff who grew used to his habitual pre-dawn meetings praise his tireless work ethic. Constituents are grateful for personal attention. As an Afro-Trinidadian leader in the mainly Indo-Trinidadian UNC, he won a crushing victory in last year’s election for party chairman. He contributed generously to the party’s election campaigns. Breaking from the apolitical tradition of his post, Stephen Williams, the police commissioner, said after Mr Warner’s resignation that he had been an “exceptional minister”. Now he may have to investigate his former colleague.
Mrs Persad-Bissessar’s coalition swept to power in May 2010, promising a break from divisive politics and corruption. On both counts, she was unwise to choose Mr Warner, who served first in the powerful Ministry of Transport and Works, moving two years later to National Security. She faces other problems, not least a continuing wave of violent crime. With two years until the next election, she has time to rebuild her government’s reputation. For Mr Warner, who turned 70 in January, this looks like a career endgame.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/americas ... er-resigns
kaylex wrote:Rooki3 wrote:jack always delivers
Jack just going and create hype for Parliament Friday... He would be very careful to make too much bacchanal I feel..
We hadda remember Parliamentary privilege... where you could say things and have no legal consequence...
Right now I feel in Chaguanus he might just rally support.. claiming the PPEEEEMN wanna take away the good work he doing yadda yadda... and PEEEEMN would not be able to destory the effective representation they have in him as a member of Parliament Yadda yadda... much ado about nothign..
I ent expect nothing to libelous...just some ole talk.. pelt a few arrows... Friday however go be fireworks.
AllTrac wrote:i really dont like where this is heading, cause Jack needs to stay low for a while, right now in Charlieville its like a massive campaign, couple of music truck and lots of people, like a fete as he is getting ready to address people later. Getting a bad feeling on what he is about to say, jack has been known to speak first and think after.
zoom rader wrote:Ah set ah PNM ppl in d crowd looking for free thing
zoom rader wrote:Great Vids, maybe PNM will learn how to serve ppl
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