Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath is urg­ing pub­lic fig­ures to be­come bet­ter in­formed be­fore com­ment­ing on sen­si­tive na­tion­al is­sues, fol­low­ing re­marks by Bmo­bile brand am­bas­sador and so­ca artiste Nailah Black­man on the con­tro­ver­sial Ka­ia Sealy mat­ter.

Black­man re­cent­ly weighed in on the is­sue through a so­cial me­dia post, call­ing for em­pa­thy and ex­press­ing con­cern about the treat­ment of Sealy.

The artiste said she typ­i­cal­ly avoids speak­ing on mat­ters that do not di­rect­ly con­cern her be­cause “it’s very easy to be mis­un­der­stood,” but felt com­pelled to break her si­lence.