Siparia alderman breaks silence on Siparia Corporation turmoil

Siparia al­der­man Vic­tor Roberts has launched a blis­ter­ing cri­tique of May­or Dood­nath Mayrhoo, ac­cus­ing him of ar­ro­gance, poor lead­er­ship and an in­abil­i­ty to man­age the Siparia Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion, as he broke his si­lence on the con­tro­ver­sial Mu­nic­i­pal Cor­po­ra­tions (Amend­ment) Bill, 2026.

In an ex­clu­sive in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia fol­low­ing a Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) gen­er­al coun­cil and leg­isla­tive group meet­ing at Bal­isi­er House, Port-of-Spain, on Thurs­day, Roberts dis­missed sug­ges­tions his po­lit­i­cal fu­ture was un­der threat be­cause of the pro­posed floor-cross­ing leg­is­la­tion, say­ing his loy­al­ty was now firm­ly with the PNM.

He al­so blamed Mayrhoo for the po­lit­i­cal tur­moil with­in the cor­po­ra­tion, where de­fec­tions from the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) have shift­ed the bal­ance of pow­er.