Trinidad minister fired for refusing breathalyser
(CNS): Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister has fired her junior national security minister in the wake of his arrest at the weekend after he refused to take a breathalyser test. Just hours after Collin Partap was detained by the police, Kamla Persad-Bissessar stripped him of his post. In a brief statement the prime minister said that she had advised the country’s President, Professor George Maxwell Richards, to revoke the appointment of Partap as a result of reports received from the national security ministry and from Partap himself.
“I have decided to advise the President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, His Excellency Prof George Maxwell Richards, to revoke the appointment of Minister Collin Partap with immediate effect. This decision wasmade subsequent to reports received from the Ministry of National Security and Mr Collin Partap,” Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar stated.
According to media reports from Trinidad, the former minister was stopped by officers in Port of Spain because they had seen him with a bottle of alcohol before he got into the driver’s seat of his car. Police say Partap refused to give a breathe test and was taken to the Belmont Police Station, where he contacted his lawyer and continued to refuse the test until more than an hour after he was detained but was then found to be within the legal limit.
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I am looking forward to the mother of all Chewbacca defences….
Yeah but our Guy took the breatherliser, and will have to take his medicine later, like a man, so that,s fine.
In 2007 when a friend of mine was charged with DUI he was sentenced within 5 weeks. Why is Mr Anglin's case taking so long?
Maybe it is Ministerial privilege.
They probably misplaced (i mean lost) the test results, statement of the accused, police statment etc……
The Trini's should learn the following legal maxims "Security, you no see nuttin"… and the very best of em all "Sacred Vessel"… If only they had the most basic grasp of these 2 well known follow ons from the chewbacca defense then no-one would ever get into any trouble in that country… just like no-one does in Cayman! XXXX
This is Funny – our ministers here can drunk drive all they want!!!
Clearly, as the elected leader of her party and her country, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has a standard of conduct that she expects from those who she recommends for appointment as her ministers. And when they ofend, there are consequences.
Sadly, here in Cayman, the 'party' we have leading us and their 'leader' have no such standards. So, if a minister is ARRESTED and CHARGED with DUI, there is no need for him to be concerned about consquences.
Of course, our "leader" is hardly in a position to take off his belt because he is only still the "leader" because of the support of the minister.
Sounds like a "gang" to me; not a 'party'.
When will our high ranking officials deal with subordinates in such a manner. It is time for us wake up and smell the roses.
Minister refusing to cooperate with Police? good…..fire his ass. That is what ethical people do.
and just imagine, our Minister of Education is still employed after failing the breathalyser test and being charged. What a fine example to the youth of these Islands – not
What's up with Rolston? 🙂
Imagine. And While Rolston who has been charged with DUI and crashed his car twice still holds office here in Cayman. SMH.
Remember that one of those times he was "tired" so that does not count.
too many hours at 'the office'…..
How come Cayman doesn't have a junior national security advisor? Or do we?
We prolly have a whole Board or Committee hand-picked by you-know-who to do only God knows what at great expense to us, like all the rest of his Boards and Committees.
Don't give McKeeva any ideas.
And this ladies and gentlemen is exactly what Mac is holding over Rollie's head !!! This is why Rollie is so compliant rather than being a man and standing up come what may !!!!
Sounds like they had an axe to grind.
Has the paperwork been lost on our own well-known ministerial driver?