{"id":8702,"date":"2015-03-26T12:44:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T16:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8702"},"modified":"2015-03-28T14:10:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T18:10:51","slug":"pnm-vernellas-rape-claim-against-rowley-vile-and-repulsive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8702","title":{"rendered":"PNM: Vernella\u2019s \u201crape\u201d claim against Rowley vile and repulsive"},"content":{"rendered":"

PNM<\/a>THE WOMEN\u2019S League of the Peoples National Movement has mounted a strong defence of party political Leader Dr Keith Rowley, describing the claims made against him in the Parliament by Government Minister Vernella Allene-Toppin as vile and repulsive. It a statement issued on Thursday, the Women\u2019s League called on citizens to express disgust over the statements made by Alleyne-Toppin. The following is the full statement.
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\nIt is with a sense of deep disgust and abhorrence that the Women\u2019s League of the People\u2019s National Movement(PNM), condemns the unfortunate contribution in the House of Representatives on March 25th of the Member for Tobago East, Mrs Vernella Alleyne-Toppin.<\/p>\n

Mrs Alleyne-Toppin in a debasing attack on Dr Keith Rowley Leader of the Opposition, placed on the Hansard Record an unadulterated and outrageous fabrication, stating,among other gross inaccuracies, that Dr Rowley\u2019s conception was as a result of a rape, thereby accusing Dr Rowley\u2019s deceased father of being a rapist! For Mrs Alleyne-Toppin however that was not enough, she went on to label Dr Rowley a kidnapper, paedophile and gang rapist, all fabrications given life under the cover of Parliamentary privilege.<\/p>\n

The Women\u2019s League expresses it\u2019s gross disappointment that this slander was allowed without let or hindrance in the Parliament resulting in a debasing of the Parliament itself.<\/p>\n

Mrs Alleyne-Toppin\u2019s utterances in the Parliament prove that she is a complete embarrassment to the Parliament, the people of Tobago East, the people of Tobago and the people of Trinidad.<\/p>\n

The Women\u2019s League is firm in it\u2019s view that in the desperate UNC\u2019s unrelenting attempt to demonise Dr Rowley they will descend to any depths as evidenced by the numerous banners which hung over the streets of Debe on Monday night with the words \u201cHide your Children from Rowley\u201d, the Tobago Organisation of the People\u2019s Vernella Alleyne-Toppin\u2019s scurrilous attack on Dr Rowley feeds off this banner and she behaved in the Parliament like a a willing recruit in this UNC plot. Vernella Alleyne-Toppin has disgraced herself.<\/p>\n

Mrs Alleyne-Toppin, by claiming that Dr Rowley was the product of a rape and is himself a gang rapist, has perpetrated one of the worst and most disgraceful acts of slander under the guise of Parliamentary privilege and has crossed all boundaries of propriety.<\/p>\n

Dr Rowley, as the Newsday article that Mrs Alleyne-Toppin quoted, has a son, the product of a legitimate relationship. Vernella Alleyne-Toppin\u2019s claims that Dr Rowley kidnapped and gang raped his son\u2019s mother and that she was underage are completely untrue and the hallucinations of a fertile and dangerous imagination.<\/p>\n

The Women\u2019s League recalls that Dr Rowley entered public life in 1981 when he ran for Tobago West as a Candidate for the PNM his son was twelve years old at the time and no such outrageous claims were ever made by anyone.<\/p>\n

The Women\u2019s League calls on all Tobagonians and indeed all right thinking citizens to express their disgust at the repugnant and repulsive behaviour of the Member of Parliament for Tobago East especially in the light of the fact that her claims made against Dr Keith Rowley the Leader of the Opposition, his deceased mother and deceased father are vengeful without any basis in fact, loathsome, outrageous, scandalous, vile and defamatory.<\/p>\n

We therefore call on the members of the TOP and the UNC to condemn Mrs Alleyne-Toppin and disassociate themselves from her statements. The Women\u2019s League is disturbed this latest assault on the character of Dr Rowley could have taken place with impunity within the walls of the Parliament.<\/p>\n

Chairman of the Women\u2019s League
\nLeader of Opposition Business in the Senate<\/p>\n

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THE WOMEN\u2019S League of the Peoples National Movement has mounted a strong defence of party political Leader Dr Keith Rowley, describing the claims made against him in the Parliament by Government Minister Vernella Allene-Toppin as vile and repulsive. It a statement issued on Thursday, the Women\u2019s League called on citizens to express disgust over the … Continue reading PNM: Vernella\u2019s \u201crape\u201d claim against Rowley vile and repulsive<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","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":[310,1,178,396,30,7,25,142,8],"tags":[85,147,144,1015,49,979],"class_list":["post-8702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-general-tt","category-general-tt","category-media","category-peoples-partnership","category-pnm","category-politics","category-sex-crimes","category-unc","category-violence","tag-abuse","tag-jack-warner","tag-kamla-persad-bissessar","tag-politics","tag-tt-govt","tag-vernella-allene-toppin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702","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=8702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8704,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702\/revisions\/8704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}