Marlene McDonald Arrested And Charged!

[shake d livin wake d dead]

http://www.guardian.co.tt/article-6.2.423687.1befd21de8

Lawyer name looks familiar...allyuh really feel he resign just because of that dui...or it have more thing...

[zoom rader]

These police wicked. She innocent. She was cleared by the integrity commission and shitkickers.

Allyuh so don’t like to see black people strive. Is only fight down. Can't take down that strong black woman. I PRAY! that she will be protected by the angels.

All ah spann customers and renters are non unc people. He real love dem

[Gladiator]

Pretty soon no one will want to serve.
This is where the politics going.
Optics is the substance

So you saying to leave them to their corrupt and nasty behavior...

HYPOTHETICALLY What if Simonettehad a drinking problem at the time ..and has been sober since...would you still disqualify him from the office?

Well is your party he shaming pal ... I am sure out of the 1M people on this dot someone would want to serve in public office who don't have mug shots all over social media.

[paid_influencer]

DUI is one bad drive away from manslaughter. people that drive drunk are a next level of kakahole.

[one eye]

This is all a plot by the unc and the cabal to win elections buttttt how can Christian Africans vote for a racial ethnic pagan religious HINDU CULT that has always been as Dr. Eric Williams told us.

She is a woman of high standards and excellent morals stop dragging her name in the mud!

[sMASH]

most viable candidate

[sMASH]

DUI is one bad drive away from manslaughter. people that drive drunk are a next level of kakahole.

second that

[one eye]

David Muhammad is a mind bender. if you listen to him and follow him you will see subtly how his aim is victory for Kamla and UNC. Both Cudjoe and Kambron all the same.
Racial Indo Hindus will always try to bring down Africans in this land!!!

[shake d livin wake d dead]

http://www.guardian.co.tt/article-6.2.423687.1befd21de8

Lawyer name looks familiar...allyuh really feel he resign just because of that dui...or it have more thing...

How did the lawyer benefit????

[zoom rader]

David Muhammad is a mind bender. if you listen to him and follow him you will see subtly how his aim is victory for Kamla and UNC. Both Cudjoe and Kambron all the same.
Racial Indo Hindus will always try to bring down Africans in this land!!!

You do know that David Muhammad is a Trini/Brit Afro, right?

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Zoom Rader may get bann for exposing a dumb arse

[Redman]

Simonette is one of the top lawyers in the land. Very decent guy too. It doesn't even have to be a drinking problem, a lot of people drink and it could have been his unlucky time. The problem I would worry about is his judgement. Why drive if you know you above the limit. Growlers has bad judgement too. Look at some of the people he put up and the problems he had with them.

I am not holding a brief for or against the man.

So a singular transgression is enough to prevent anyone serving..regardless of
A- its relevance,
B his qualifications for the job in question.

That's a very high bar.
I would say unrealistically high.
I feel that we lose too much quality talent that we as a country very much need...to secular transient politics.

Is this the case with Simonette?

[sMASH]

David Muhammad is a mind bender. if you listen to him and follow him you will see subtly how his aim is victory for Kamla and UNC. Both Cudjoe and Kambron all the same.
Racial Indo Hindus will always try to bring down Africans in this land!!!

weed not legal yet, eh bro

[rspann]

Simonette is one of the top lawyers in the land. Very decent guy too. It doesn't even have to be a drinking problem, a lot of people drink and it could have been his unlucky time. The problem I would worry about is his judgement. Why drive if you know you above the limit. Growlers has bad judgement too. Look at some of the people he put up and the problems he had with them.

I am not holding a brief for or against the man.

So a singular transgression is enough to prevent anyone serving..regardless of
A- its relevance,
B his qualifications for the job in question.

That's a very high bar.
I would say unrealistically high.
I feel that we lose too much quality talent that we as a country very much need...to secular transient politics.

Is this the case with Simonette?

Like I said he's top notch. I'm not worried about his qualifications, I'm more concerned about his bad decision making. Like someone said above , drunk driving is a step away from manslaughter.

[MaxPower]

Anyone here like to consider themselves responsible?

Ever took a chance and drive over the limit?

Ent allyuh love to check Waze etc for road block?

Allyuh never call allyuh SRP bobolee padnas or police friends to find out if it have road block so you know when it safe to leave the bar?

DUI is reckless but just cuz a man have a DUI it doesnt mean he a jackass.

I mean Simz probably is a jackass i dunno but we dont know the real situation.

[Mercenary]

he handle it well.

[paid_influencer]

This is all a plot by the unc and the cabal to win elections buttttt how can Christian Africans vote for a racial ethnic pagan religious HINDU CULT that has always been as Dr. Eric Williams told us.

She is a woman of high standards and excellent morals stop dragging her name in the mud!

newsday had Donna Cox, now minister of communication, supporting Marlene because she is "one of our own."

https://newsday.co.tt/2019/08/12/we-wil ... andon-her/

that is a dog whistle if there ever exists one.

[matix]

This is all a plot by the unc and the cabal to win elections buttttt how can Christian Africans vote for a racial ethnic pagan religious HINDU CULT that has always been as Dr. Eric Williams told us.

She is a woman of high standards and excellent morals stop dragging her name in the mud!

You have brain damage?

[bluefete]

This issue with the Integrity Commission is of great concern. What kind of investigation did they do prior to exonerating her TWICE? Why did Dr. Rowley not wait on the police to complete their investigations? Was Dr. Rowley properly exonerated by the Integrity Commission over Landate? Is this the same Integrity Commission that publishes people's names in the papers for not filing forms on time? Is the Integrity Commission capable of properly carrying out any kind of criminal investigations?

Did Dr. Rowley know about Simonette's USA arrest for DUI? Did he believe that it would pass under the radar like Lester Henry's DUI Trinidad arrest? Does Dr. Rowley feel that we are that dumb? Why is Lester Henry still a government Senator?

How come Marlene could lie down in a hospital bed and get bail of $2 million without even facing a Magistrate / Judge? Pamela Elder is really working for her taxpayers dollars.

Is this a precedent that was set in law in T&T?

[pugboy]

A foreign dui carry more weight than a local

[bluefete]

A foreign dui carry more weight than a local

Anything foreign carries more weight than a local according to the PNM and UNC.

[bluefete]

Is this man really serious? Did he forget the High Court said that the IC did not give him the opportunity to be heard over Landate?

I now saw this from the Express.

PM questions Integrity Commission's role in matter

PORT OF SPAIN

■ Anna Ramdass

anna.ramdass@trinidadexpress.com

PRIME MINISTER Dr Keith Rowley says the country needs to have a serious conversation about the Integrity Commission which cleared Government Minister Marlene Mc-Donald of wrongdoing not once, but twice.

Rowley said this was what led him to make the decision to rehire McDonald after he had fired her twice.

The minister is now confronted with a 'jeopardy', the Prime Minister said, repeating yesterday that he will take action based on the facts when the police complete their investigation.

Rowley admitted that although there was a police probe into allegations against McDonald, he made a judgement call to reinstate her in the Cabinet because of the lengthy time the police take to complete investigations.

Rowley spoke yesterday by phone on the McDonald arrest during an i95FM radio programme hosted by Movement for Social Justice (MSJ) leader David Abdulah and radio host Natalee Legore.

McDonald has been in police custody since Thursday morning after she and her husband Michael Carew were arrested at their Valley View, Maracas, St Joseph, home and taken to the St Joseph Police Station.

New allegations over housing

Rowley, in response to questions, said the allegations against McDonald were 11 years old and began in 2008 under the former Patrick Manning government.

He recalled that, on the first occasion, prior to the 2015 general election, the Integrity Commission investigated the allegations against McDonald and cleared her.

Rowley said after the general election, people came forward with new allegations against her and he fired her as Housing Minister to ensure there was an investigation.

'Don't forget part of the package of allegations then was about misconduct on her part involving the Ministry of Housing. There were a number of allegations about who get house and who didn't get house... and so I removed her from the ministry.

'She was fired from the Cabinet so as to facilitate a proper investigation...that took place. The conclusion to that was that the Integrity Commission for the second time said that they found nothing to go forward with respect to her conduct,' he said.

Rowley said, at the end of it, the Integrity Commission for a second time found that McDonald had nothing to answer.

The Integrity Commission is a body under the Constitution that has the responsibility for examining the conduct of persons in public life and if they found nothing to warrant action then 'it means that the allegation had no substance'.

Abdulah asked Rowley if the Integrity Commission finding no wrongdoing against McDonald on two occasions suggested that the commission was 'weak', did not have the capacity to investigate and should have passed the file to the police.

He asked the Prime Minister if he took the decision to reinstate McDonald too soon as there was a parallel police probe going on. Rowley responded: 'There was a time in this country when police investigations were clearly open-ended and had absolutely no end in sight. This particular investigation is now ten years old, ten going on 11 years, so if two Integrity Commission investigations on the matter found that the person had no questions to answer, and in a situation where plantlike substances take ten years, Jack Warner and the cash to CONCACAF is forever and ever, what am I supposed to do to a person in my Cabinet where the police say 'okay we investigate, it might take 25 years'. 'The life of the Government is five years and I had two situations saying we've looked at the matter, the Integrity Commission, we found that these are allegations without substance. I thought it was reasonable then to proceed.

'Secondly, when you say the Integrity Commission doesn't have the authority, the exact investigation that is taking place now using the police could have been done before using the police at the behest of the Integrity Commission because the Integrity Commission has the authority to call in the police and use police officers to do investigations. The fact that they were not done is for another day and a longer debate.'

'Jeopardy of apparent misconduct'

He said on the other end of the pendulum, there was a case when he had to take the commission to court and the judge ruled that the commission had no integrity in a matter related to him.

'So this country has a serious conversation to have about an Integrity Commission,' he said.

Rowley noted that the police are now saying that it has new information and witnesses and he awaits the outcome of the investigation into McDonald.

'If in the end Ms McDonald faces a jeopardy of apparent misconduct in her ministry...I as Prime Minister will have the duty to preserve the public order with respect to the people I put in the Cabinet and she will either resign or I will remove her from the Cabinet,' he said.


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[bluefete]

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AG: Reopen Landate probe
by

Thu Jun 10 2010

Re­open Lan­date is the call from At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan yes­ter­day. Speak­ing dur­ing the week­ly post-Cab­i­net news con­fer­ence at the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter, St Clair, Ram­lo­gan said the en­tire mat­ter in­volv­ing the probe must be clar­i­fied in the pub­lic in­ter­est. Lan­date was a pri­vate hous­ing de­vel­op­ment project at Ma­son Hall, To­ba­go. It is owned by Sharon Row­ley, wife of Op­po­si­tion Leader Dr Kei­th Row­ley. It was al­leged dur­ing the com­mis­sion of en­quiry in­to the health sec­tor that ma­te­ri­als for use in the con­struc­tion of the Scar­bor­ough Hos­pi­tal was si­phoned to the Lan­date project.

The re­port of the en­quiry rec­om­mend­ed the Lar­ce­ny Act be re­vis­it­ed with re­spect to the project. Row­ley won a le­gal bat­tle with the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion last year when a High Court judge ruled it act­ed un­fair­ly against him in the mat­ter. The judge in­di­cat­ed then that Row­ley's right to be heard in the mat­ter was de­nied by the com­mis­sion. Ram­lo­gan yes­ter­day called on the com­mis­sion "to clar­i­fy for the pub­lic the sta­tus of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion it had con­duct­ed in­to the Lan­date mat­ter, in­volv­ing Op­po­si­tion Leader Dr Kei­th Row­ley." He said the High Court rul­ing "did not ad­dress the sub­stan­tive mer­its of the com­plaint that was be­fore the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion." He said there were two al­le­ga­tions; the si­phon­ing of ma­te­ri­als from the Scar­bor­ough Hos­pi­tal project, which is still in­com­plete, and the ex­pe­di­tious grant of plan­ning per­mis­sion for the project to be re­zoned from agri­cul­tur­al us­age to res­i­den­tial us­age.

Ram­lo­gan said if the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion had felt the need to meet with the for­mer Prime Min­is­ter "then the sub­stan­tive mer­it and vin­di­ca­tion ei­ther to prove and vin­di­cate Dr Row­ley's in­no­cence or to in­ves­ti­gate the mat­ter thor­ough­ly and com­pre­hen­sive­ly and bring it to a gen­uine end to say that no wrong­do­ing was found, should in fact take place." He then called on the com­mis­sion "to in­di­cate the sta­tus of that mat­ter." He said: "If Dr Row­ley was vin­di­cat­ed I ask that the re­port be made pub­lic, so that prop­er vin­di­ca­tion and true pub­lic jus­tice can take place.

"And if it is that the mat­ter was sud­den­ly closed or shelved un­der a mis­ap­pre­hen­sion or a mis­un­der­stand­ing as to what the court ruled, then they must re­open that mat­ter and bring it to its clo­sure in ac­cor­dance with the prin­ci­ples of nat­ur­al jus­tice so that the rule of law will pre­vail." He said there should not be one rule for Dr Row­ley and an­oth­er for Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er. Deal­ing with the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion, the AG said al­le­ga­tions of wrong­do­ing should not be left over the heads of pub­lic of­fi­cials. He said: "It can­not be right and it un­der­mines pub­lic con­fi­dence in the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion and the ar­chi­tec­ture of our con­sti­tu­tion­al arrange­ments for these mat­ters to drag on for such a long time – that a Gov­ern­ment has come and gone – and we are still none the wis­er as a pop­u­la­tion."

He said it was a mat­ter of "great anx­i­ety and con­cern" that in the an­nu­al re­ports of the com­mis­sion to Par­lia­ment a list of the com­plaints were not in­clud­ed or the sta­tus of their in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the mat­ters. "The In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion is far too im­por­tant an in­sti­tu­tion to op­er­ate in such an ob­scure and mys­te­ri­ous man­ner," he said. He said he was hap­py to see the present chair­man of the com­mis­sion , for­mer In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor Er­ic St Cyr in­ter­act with the me­dia. "We need to change the face­less, name­less and al­most anony­mous ap­proach by the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion," the AG said.

[eKeith]

Pretty soon no one will want to serve.
This is where the politics going.
Optics is the substance

So you saying to leave them to their corrupt and nasty behavior...

HYPOTHETICALLY What if Simonettehad a drinking problem at the time ..and has been sober since...would you still disqualify him from the office?

No. But because this is reportedly "new information", it indicates that he did not (and does not) have the ethics to declare it to his party leadership in advance. That is enough to disqualify him in my books...

[sMASH]

but, he get some points for his rage quit. the report say minutes before his swearing in, he got the call that it cancelled. and then he renounce himself as the senator. like, he didnt like how he was being involved in a circus, so he opted to bow out and not be part of anything.

and the next ting, as with big mac's second dismissal, rowlers may have further info that is not available to the public as he is head of security council.

and doh get vex with citizens or opposition, is rowlers that blank him, not us.

[sMASH]

if u reopening landate, might as well do audits of all projects, starting with the big money ones, like the pt fortain highway/OAS

[hydroep]

The Integrity Commission, ODPM, EMA all of these are "legitimizing bodies" to take the responsibility off of those in High Office.

If those bodies make a decision and things turn out good Government will say "We made the right call" and if things turn out badly "Is their (i.e. the IC, ODPM, EMA etc.) fault".

Sh!tkicker cannot blame the IC in this case. There was too much circumstantial evidence surrounding Big Mac's activities for him to just claim that the Integrity Commission cleared her. Now he wants to throw them under the bus?

Foolish man is the most incompetent Prime Minister this country has ever seen...

[Redman]

but, he get some points for his rage quit. the report say minutes before his swearing in, he got the call that it cancelled. and then he renounce himself as the senator. like, he didnt like how he was being involved in a circus, so he opted to bow out and not be part of anything.

and the next ting, as with big mac's second dismissal, rowlers may have further info that is not available to the public as he is head of security council.

and doh get vex with citizens or opposition, is rowlers that blank him, not us.

A neighbor was called and given 1 hr to answer yes/no on a position similar to this.
By a sitting PM.
The position was taken

With that pressure on both sides one can see how life over takes all the ivory tower perfect scenarios and extrapolation

We have to confront the fact that a well run govt needs people with experience.
Good judgement comes from experience, experience comes from poor judgement.

Is it PRODUCTIVE to judge people on their low points and not what they bring to the table?

[rspann]

Sometimes their low points affects their productivity. I had one of the best straighteners in the country and I fired him for his drinking problem because it was affecting his productivity and hence my business.

Will you hire a fraudster to run YOUR business just because he has good business acumen?

[zoom rader]

The Integrity Commission, ODPM, EMA all of these are "legitimizing bodies" to take the responsibility off of those in High Office.

If those bodies make a decision and things turn out good Government will say "We made the right call" and if things turn out badly "Is their (i.e. the IC, ODPM, EMA etc.) fault".

Sh!tkicker cannot blame the IC in this case. There was too much circumstantial evidence surrounding Big Mac's activities for him to just claim that the Integrity Commission cleared her. Now he wants to throw them under the bus?

Foolish man is the most incompetent Prime Minister this country has ever seen...

Those bodies are all Tainted and are pro PNM. They are not independent as you may think

[Redman]

So logically we arrive at context and relevance.

And the answer is no...because the issue is relevant to the job.

In this case we run down the DUI, but not the fact that he would have already paid his debt to the authorities in Brevard
Double Jeopardy?

You think Simonette s track record in the Senate was good bad indifferent?
How has his judgment been?