Pressure mounts on Lee

Leader of Gov­ern­ment Busi­ness Bar­ry Padarath has fired back at the Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), over its de­mand for Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee to step aside from his min­is­te­r­i­al port­fo­lio while his crim­i­nal pro­ceed­ings con­tin­ue, ac­cus­ing the Op­po­si­tion of hypocrisy.

The lat­est ex­change comes af­ter Op­po­si­tion Chief Whip Mar­vin Gon­za­les called on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to re­move Lee from Cab­i­net fol­low­ing Wednes­day’s High Court rul­ing, which cleared the way for the pros­e­cu­tion against the min­is­ter to con­tin­ue.

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But re­spond­ing to ques­tions from Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Padarath dis­missed Gon­za­les’ de­mand, la­belling it as iron­ic.