West In­dies bat­ting icon Bri­an Lara and his part­ner­ship with the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go (TSTT) were the cen­tre of a so­cial me­dia row be­tween for­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties Bar­ry Padarath yes­ter­day.

The sit­u­a­tion de­vel­oped af­ter Row­ley took to Face­book with the fol­low­ing post: “Bri­an Lara is an icon of in­ter­na­tion­al and in­ter-gen­er­a­tional pro­por­tions.

Bri­an Lara is among the best our na­tion has ever pro­duced!