Camille, Vandana clash over Children’s Authority

Ke­jan Haynes

The bat­tle be­tween So­cial De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Van­dana Mo­hit and Op­po­si­tion MP for Trinci­ty/Mal­oney Camille Robin­son-Reg­is over the man­age­ment of the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty in­ten­si­fied in Par­lia­ment on Sat­ur­day, with al­le­ga­tions of racial dis­crim­i­na­tion, ques­tions about the han­dling of chil­dren in State care and com­pet­ing claims over the Au­thor­i­ty’s fund­ing.

Robin­son-Reg­is ac­cused Mo­hit of fail­ing to pro­vide prop­er over­sight of the Au­thor­i­ty and al­leged that the min­is­ter had knowl­edge of sex­u­al abuse con­cerns at some res­i­den­tial chil­dren’s homes. Mo­hit re­ject­ed the claims, call­ing them un­true, while ac­cus­ing the Au­thor­i­ty’s board of un­der­min­ing the Gov­ern­ment and rais­ing con­cerns about its own han­dling of chil­dren.