{"id":8219,"date":"2014-05-22T06:55:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T10:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8219"},"modified":"2014-05-23T00:21:01","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T04:21:01","slug":"tv6-news-shows-video-of-minister-with-ganja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8219","title":{"rendered":"Govt Minister Allegedly  Caught on Tape with Girls and Ganja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/smkQRFxd_5E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<big><b>TV6 News shows video of \u2018Minister\u2019 with ganja<\/b><\/big><\/p>\n<p><I>By Sean Douglas<br \/>\nMay 22, 2014 &#8211; <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,195081.html\">Newsday.co.tt<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n<p>A balding man resembling a Cabinet Minister was last night shown in a video-clip on national television rolling a cigarette made of a substance resembling marijuana, partying in the company of a young woman, a video-cameraman and other friends. The presence of a key bearing a number (201) suggests the setting was a hotel room.<\/p>\n<p>Rumours of such a video had surfaced a few months back and were even referred to in passing in a speech in Parliament by the said Minister.<\/p>\n<p>Newsday last night tried to reach the relevant Minister whom the man in the video resembles, and also tried to get a comment from spokesman, Communications Minister, Vasant Bharath, but we were unsuccessful. TV6 News reported Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar as saying she was unable to comment until she sees the video which she requested the television station send to her.<\/p>\n<p>In the video the man bends over a counter-top in front of a mirror and dabbles in a substance resembling marijuana. He has a continuous dialogue with friends, all discussing his technique of preparing a marijuana cigarette.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCome, come all you go ahead. Let me deal with this here,\u201d said the man.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey call me the \u2018two-pull man\u2019,\u201d he quips. \u201cThey does roll it \u2014 all my boys \u2014 but you see me, I could drink rum whole day and night but if I take two \u2018pull\u2019 (I) gone through.\u201d He said he had at least 20 different friends who can roll such a cigarette.<\/p>\n<p>He then seemingly scoffs at his own cigarette preparation technique, saying, \u201cI\u2019m old and inexperienced.\u201d A woman argues that he is being too fastidious in his sorting of the herb before it is ready to be put into a cigarette paper, scoffing that he is preparing it \u201cEnglish\u201d style, but he holds his ground, quipping, \u201cWell right, I is ah English boy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>TV6 News spoke to the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are correct. There\u2019s something very bad here,\u201d she is reported as saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease tell me again. Kindly tell me again,\u201d she asked the interviewer so as to seek details. \u201cVery kindly send it to me,\u201d she requested of the video.<\/p>\n<p>In recent times Government Ministers have been the subject of personal scandals. Caroni Central MP Dr Glenn Ramadharsingh was fired as Minister of the People and Social Development for a row with an airline hostess who alleged he had touched her breast, a claim he denied. Former tourism minister, Chandresh Sharma, the Fyzabad MP, resigned after a police investigation began into allegations he hit his former girlfriend at a shopping mall. Minister of Tobago Development, Dr Delmon Baker, was accused of inappropriate conduct by a man who was since arrested on fraud charges amid blackmail claims towards Baker.<\/p>\n<p><I>Source: <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,195081.html\">www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,195081.html<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,305,1,396,7,27],"tags":[514,44,691,359,1015,49],"class_list":["post-8219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-drug-trade","category-general-tt","category-peoples-partnership","category-politics","category-sports","tag-anil-roberts","tag-crime-in-tt","tag-marijuana","tag-newsday","tag-politics","tag-tt-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8219"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8231,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8219\/revisions\/8231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}