Lee to appeal High Court ruling; no plans to resign

Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee says he will ap­peal a re­cent High Court rul­ing in on­go­ing le­gal pro­ceed­ings against him, in­sist­ing that he has not been found guilty of any of­fence and has no in­ten­tion of re­sign­ing.

His po­si­tion comes amid calls from the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) for him to step down or for Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to re­move him from Cab­i­net.

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In a state­ment is­sued to­day, Lee said the rul­ing con­cerned a le­gal pro­ce­dure and should not be in­ter­pret­ed as a find­ing of guilt.