Ford replies to Mark

FOLLOWING Opposition Senator Wade Mark’s call for Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) chief elections officer Fern Narcis-Scope to resign for allegedly being related to a Cabinet minister, People’s National Movement (PNM) former general secretary Ashton Ford yesterday said the PNM had never protested when certain people linked to Opposition had been appointed to high posts.

The EBC, in a statement last year, denied Narcis-Scope had any such familial link. Ford, in a statement, said the PNM did not march up and down the town when former United National Congress (UNC) member Winston Dookeran was named Central Bank governor, nor when Dr Bhoe Tewarie was appointed University of the West Indies principal under a past UNC government.

“Both men were very active in the political arena and after their stints in the ‘independent and impartial roles’ they returned to active politics in TT.” He said Dookeran went on to head the Congress of the People (COP) and Tewarie is an Opposition MP for Caroni Central.

“We must not forget how Herbert Volney entered the political fray after demitting his position as a High Court judge. His dramatic move was very controversial since it was the first time in the history of TT that a High Court judge moved from the bench onto a political platform overnight.” Ford said when these “glaring and disgraceful” political acts took place, citizens did not hear a murmur from so-called independent commentators who today unjustly attack every move by a PNM government.

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