For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has crit­i­cised Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) se­nior lec­tur­er Dr Bish­nu Ra­goonath for re­cent com­ments made dur­ing a me­dia ap­pear­ance.

In a post on his of­fi­cial Face­book page yes­ter­day, Row­ley ac­cused Ra­goonath, who is a mem­ber of UWI’s De­part­ment of Po­lit­i­cal Sci­ence, of pre­sent­ing po­lit­i­cal opin­ions as aca­d­e­m­ic analy­sis. The post did not ref­er­ence a spe­cif­ic pro­gramme or sta­tion but re­ferred to Ra­goonath’s ap­pear­ance on air “yes­ter­day morn­ing.”

“I woke up yes­ter­day morn­ing to, once again, a so-called an­a­lyst from the po­lit­i­cal are­na, us­ing their pres­ence on UWI’s pay­roll to hold them­selves as an “an­a­lyst” when in fact they have done no prop­er re­search, they con­sult­ed no one in the know nor are they an “ex­pert” in the facts of the is­sue that they at­tempt to bring clar­i­ty on,” Row­ley wrote.