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To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Ed­u­ca­tion Sec­re­tary Zor­isha Hack­ett has sent a pre-ac­tion pro­to­col let­ter to for­mer chief sec­re­tary and po­lit­i­cal leader of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) To­ba­go Coun­cil An­cil Den­nis, de­mand­ing a pub­lic apol­o­gy. She has ac­cused Den­nis of mak­ing defam­a­to­ry state­ments on so­cial me­dia about ter­tiary ed­u­ca­tion fund­ing.

But, Den­nis has stood by his so­cial me­dia post, say­ing he will not be apol­o­gis­ing. He said he too had his court clothes ironed and ready.

In the le­gal let­ter dat­ed Feb­ru­ary 12, Hack­ett’s at­tor­neys ac­cused Den­nis of spread­ing false claims about her han­dling of fi­nan­cial aid for To­ba­go’s uni­ver­si­ty stu­dents. It al­leged that Den­nis mis­led the pub­lic by sug­gest­ing Hack­ett failed to pro­vide as­sis­tance while mis­us­ing pub­lic funds.