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Con­dem­na­tion con­tin­ues to mount against Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) PRO Dr Kirk Meighoo, over his claims that Dr Er­ic Williams was not Trinidad and To­ba­go’s first prime min­is­ter.

Meighoo made the claim dur­ing the na­tion’s 63rd In­de­pen­dence an­niver­sary over the week­end, say­ing Bar­ba­di­an Sir Grant­ley Adams was, in fact, the per­son who ac­tu­al­ly T&T’s first prime min­is­ter. He claimed Williams was mere­ly the pre­mier of T&T with­in the West In­dies Fed­er­a­tion and that the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s claims that he was the fa­ther of the na­tion were a myth to make him out to be the bea­con of Caribbean uni­ty.

How­ev­er, an­a­lysts and politi­cians from across the po­lit­i­cal spec­trum de­nounced his re­marks.