Ke­jan Haynes

For­mer prime min­is­ters Dr Kei­th Row­ley and Stu­art Young have ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of us­ing the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the fi­nanc­ing of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) Bal­isi­er House head­quar­ters to di­vert pub­lic at­ten­tion from what they de­scribe as more press­ing na­tion­al is­sues, in­clud­ing vi­o­lent crime, for­eign ex­change short­ages, eco­nom­ic chal­lenges, Point Lisas plant clo­sures, ris­ing debt and Trinidad and To­ba­go’s ex­clu­sion from dis­cus­sions on Venezue­lan gas.

As the po­lit­i­cal fall­out con­tin­ued on Sun­day, PNM chair­man Mar­vin Gon­za­les used the con­tro­ver­sy to re­new the par­ty’s call for cam­paign fi­nance re­form, chal­leng­ing the Gov­ern­ment to sup­port leg­is­la­tion in Par­lia­ment.