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Within minutes of the Prime Minister’s announcement, Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley issued a statement criticising the appointment of Warner to the National Security Ministry.
He said that the appointment “should be a matter of concern for all the right-thinking citizens of Trinidad and Tobago. It is public knowledge that in the conduct of his private affairs in the various FIFA scandals he has found it necessary to engage in unseemly and embarrassing verbal wars with offices of the United Kingdom and the United States of America. These are not only our two major international partners, but their enthusiastic cooperation in the fight against the international drug trade is absolutely essential to succeed in our fight against crime. The Prime Minister's choice of Mr. Warner for this particular post borders on irresponsibility and once again confirms her misguided view that Trinidad and Tobago's international image counts for nothing”.
BRZ wrote:rumours spreading that the us embassy may soon start refusing ALL visa applicants if JW is not sent to the us to face his charges.......... lets see who will laugh last ......
Yet on his home island, some see the 72-year-old MP as a Robin Hood character who stole from football’s big shots to give to Caribbean
football — even if he may have helped himself to some of the spoils along the way.
In his constituency’s office in Chaguanas, Joseanne Khan says of him: “He is like Jesus because he was betrayed . . . He is the black guy taking the rap.”
Sunity Maharaj, a commentator with the Lloyd Best Institute of the West Indies, a think-tank, says: “He’s a man of the people. And he sees himself as someone who has done nothing wrong.”
Mr Warner rose through the ranks as a protégé of Havelange, Mr Blatter’s predecessor as Fifa president. Chuck Blazer, a former ally in Concacaf who turned US informant, reportedly said of him: “Jack is a measure of reality for those who like BS.”
Many credit him with putting Caribbean football on the map in a region previously better known for cricket. Others believe Trinidad is being dragged through the mud because of him.
“For a while everyone in the Caribbean felt they owed him for giving them so much,” says a former adviser. “Now, people are distancing from him.”
Mr Warner’s first football scandal came in 1989 when Trinidad & Tobago was close to qualifying for the 1990 World Cup, when he printed thousands of extra tickets to sell. He is also accused by former team members of pocketing millions of dollars promised as bonuses to players for qualifying for the 2006 World Cup.
“We don’t know what is true and what is fiction when it comes to him,” says Brent Sancho, Trinidad sports minister who played on the 2006 team. “It’s a sad thing that Jack Warner is seen as a Robin Hood here.”
Jamaal Shabazz, a former coach of the Trinidad & Tobago national team, says of Mr Warner’s unrepentant attitude: “For him, this is normal behaviour. Warner is a creation of Concacaf and Fifa.”
He too sees Mr Warner as a Caribbean Robin Hood but says his mistake was to become too greedy. “He should have been more selfless.
He did not give enough,” Mr Shabazz explains. If he had, “people today would stand with him as they stood with Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro.”
Country_Bookie wrote:Joseanne Khan, Sunity Maraj and Brent Sancho = 3 of the biggest retards in TT.
Just giving further ammo for the international media to portray TT as land full of dotish backward dumbfcuks who all love Warner and see him as Robin Hood.
As for Jamal ShabASS, well ah eh know nah. Sounds like this clown still hoping Warner throw some breadcrumbs at him.Yet on his home island, some see the 72-year-old MP as a Robin Hood character who stole from football’s big shots to give to Caribbean
football — even if he may have helped himself to some of the spoils along the way.
In his constituency’s office in Chaguanas, Joseanne Khan says of him: “He is like Jesus because he was betrayed . . . He is the black guy taking the rap.”
Sunity Maharaj, a commentator with the Lloyd Best Institute of the West Indies, a think-tank, says: “He’s a man of the people. And he sees himself as someone who has done nothing wrong.”
Mr Warner rose through the ranks as a protégé of Havelange, Mr Blatter’s predecessor as Fifa president. Chuck Blazer, a former ally in Concacaf who turned US informant, reportedly said of him: “Jack is a measure of reality for those who like BS.”
Many credit him with putting Caribbean football on the map in a region previously better known for cricket. Others believe Trinidad is being dragged through the mud because of him.
“For a while everyone in the Caribbean felt they owed him for giving them so much,” says a former adviser. “Now, people are distancing from him.”
Mr Warner’s first football scandal came in 1989 when Trinidad & Tobago was close to qualifying for the 1990 World Cup, when he printed thousands of extra tickets to sell. He is also accused by former team members of pocketing millions of dollars promised as bonuses to players for qualifying for the 2006 World Cup.
“We don’t know what is true and what is fiction when it comes to him,” says Brent Sancho, Trinidad sports minister who played on the 2006 team. “It’s a sad thing that Jack Warner is seen as a Robin Hood here.”Jamaal Shabazz, a former coach of the Trinidad & Tobago national team, says of Mr Warner’s unrepentant attitude: “For him, this is normal behaviour. Warner is a creation of Concacaf and Fifa.”
He too sees Mr Warner as a Caribbean Robin Hood but says his mistake was to become too greedy. “He should have been more selfless.
He did not give enough,” Mr Shabazz explains. If he had, “people today would stand with him as they stood with Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro.”
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