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If chivalry really is dead, maybe the Police Service should consider bringing in Sport Minister Darryl Smith for questioning.
The Diego Martin Central MP set a new mark for family values today—and Mr Live Wire is thinking ‘skid mark’—when he took to Facebook to threaten to throw his wife of 12 years and mother of his four children out of the family home.
Smith’s public threat followed the leaking of a video which showed the super-sized sweetman getting frisky with former Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs PRO Kate Balthazar.
“Frisky” is relative, of course. Smith lay on his back on a couch—as though waiting for the tide to come back in—while Kate did all the legwork. Minus the kissing, it was probably a perfect metaphor for his time as Sport Minister so far.
Smith, who blamed his “ex wife” for the leaked video, claimed to be setting the record straight via the social media.
“The facts are as follows: I am the person in the video footage inside my own home,” stated Smith, who would have been spot on if he stopped right there. But he didn’t.
“It is imperative to note,” said the Sport Minister, “that my marriage was dissolved by Order of the Family Court more than seven (7) months ago…”
Only, it wasn’t. Smith began divorce proceedings in early 2017 but, Wired868 was reliably informed, is still married and will be for another two months at least.
The Sport Minister is separated but not divorced. But, like most politicians, he tried to have it both ways. So, without explicitly using the word “divorced” in his press statement, he referred to his partner as “ex-wife”.
Hinds did not press charges.
(Courtesy Sean Morrison/Wired868)
Not that Smith trying to have it both ways would come as a surprise to anyone who has followed his exploits at the Sport Ministry.
The inconvenient truth that Smith also neglected to mention in his statement was that the romantic interlude with his former employee—she has since swapped ministries—was taking place in the house that he shares, at present, with his wife while she was out.
Presumably without irony, Smith also said “my entire focus continues to be on the emotional well-being of my children” and followed that up with “my attorneys have written to [my wife] again, advising her that an application for an exclusion order will be forthcoming.”
So Smith will petition the court to have his wife and four children—ages nine, eight, six and three—tossed out ahead of schedule on the alleged grounds that she embarrassed him by leaking footage of what he got up to in their home.
Too bad Justice Rolston Nelson can’t take that one.
(Courtesy Sean Morrison/Wired868)
Smith’s statement:
On Friday December 22nd 2017, specific video footage from my home security system was taken by my ex-wife and leaked via social media.
It is imperative to note that my marriage was dissolved by Order of the Family Court more than seven (7) months ago.
[…] My entire focus continues to be on the emotional well-being of my children but I have now been forced by this leak and the further embellishment of this story to clarify the facts.The facts are as follows:
- I am the person in the video footage inside my own home.
- This was a family setting in which my father and other family members were present. The rest of video footage (deliberately not leaked) clearly portrays context.
- It is uncanny that the footage was leaked on the very day that the financial aspect of my divorce was finalised.
It is very unfortunate and quite sad, (but not the first time) that my ex-wife has revealed personal information to try and destabilise the family unit in this manner. Given that, my attorneys have written to her again, advising her that an application for an exclusion order will be forthcoming.
(Courtesy Allan V Crane/CA Images/Wired868)
Equally as shameful, but not surprisingly (sic), is that some of my political opponents on social media have chosen to use this to pontificate and preach about moral behaviour in public office for their own myopic and self-serving agendas.
I want to thank my family, friends, constituents and all of my well wishers for the numerous texts and calls of support.
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Mr. Live Wire is an avid news reader who translates media reports for persons who can handle the truth. And satire. Unlike Jack Nicholson, he rarely yells.
he msut be the fittest MInister of Sport ever.
The comments defending this show clearly your moral values. I have 4 young children and not a year gone yet and I’m hooking up?If that were me I’d be called a slack woman etc etc
How long should be have waited?
Isn’t that his right if he goes through with the right process. Which is what every divorce situation goes through.
And 7 months ago
At least he admitted that it was him in the video loving up the woman but Mr 2 pull the ex corrputed sports minister going down dying that it wasn’t him in the video smoking the ganja. Them really good yes. Steeuuppss
His business is his business when he keep it inside..nt wen yuh is minister an my tax money paying yuh and yuh all over the place showing how dumb and stupid you are…wen you bring it to the public is the public hve to comment…AND YES I CAN LOOK IN THE MIRROR EVERY DAY…AND SMILE
Shame and disgrace to the human race
First an foremost wrong is wrong. If he did not get catch, well
Is that u all business every body have a fly in their back yard
Mind allyuh business!!!
I agree sister…It certainly is not my business…
Men are so deceitful they only think about themselves not there children.I hate when kids are involved
So the previous Minister of Sport got horned and the current Minister is horning…. this Ministry is real kicks… no wonder the sports administrators are doing what they want with their sports.. ..
No wonder we winning so many medals 🙂
When yuh eh hah not’n else tuh do!
I trying to understand what is the importance of this to me, my existence, my income, my bills? What?
He is your minister of sport spending your tax payer money
What is he doing? Is he breaking the law? As far as I’m concerned if there is no laws broken and he’s in his private capacity it’s not my business.
and the former minister of sport was spending his money not taxpayers right
As he make Minister he feel he reach disgraceful big fat and was ah nobody before becoming Minister, he feel that side chick would of gave him a second look hadn’t been a Minister damn ass
I hope the wife gets the house and everything she is entitled to especially for her four young children. What goes around comes around his day will come
Everything is social media!!! Today is Darry tomorrow it could be me an you???? You never know
Papayo
But how come all them sport sport ministers getting themselves tie up so boy…
the man want boneless salt fish,leave him alone please.
How you know it boneless?
Darryl Smith you’re a dog! I’m sure that woman was by your side when you had nothing, before you even got ministerial portfolio but you got greedy and other woman start to look at your fat ass!! Four kids ??? Hmm boy karma will deal with you don’t worry!!!
But what madness! !!!
I am not defending smith but he and his wife are estranged he is still in the matrimonial home with his new friend if he was in a hotel or in his car in public then it is another story but de man was in his house a man’s house is his castle i think smith is the victim here this was done to have him fired as a minister people to nasty as for the person who recorded this shame on you.
I know i will get flack for my comment but this one is nasty and those feminist out there i await your comments.
His wife and children still live in the home. It was recorded on the home security system. Poor judgement on his part for bringing her there as well as poor judgement on the wife’s for sharing.
Raymond I actually agree with most of what you said. From a public perspective, people should be more concerned that he is dating his secretary and what kind of work environment was created? What he did in his home is not by business. Admittedly, it is not a good look though.
Yes Brent Winter while i am not a moral crusader when you look at this thing as a whole as i said earlier it was done to cause ridicule. As for his secretary in light of current the situation that is fodder for feminist out there.
What about if it was in a hotel or some other public place he is not the first or the last person to be in dat kind of situation therefore that should have been kept behind close doors. This also highligts the dangers of Macko Media
Bingo, Brent. As long as he’s still married to his wife then relations with another woman is adultery. It’s parsing words a little bit, but in this case it’s not the same as “cheating.”
How is it his private business when he deliberately put his intentions on the most public of forums? He just intentionally took away his own right to privacy. Isn’t it obvious he’s trying to sway the public one way or another? I don’t understand playing devils advocate …plus doesnt the way he handle his personal life show a direct corelation to the way he is NOT handling his actual job!! Logic is only logical if put in the appropriate situation. You’re not divorced but yuh beating d outside ting in yuh house …how is that not going to favour your wife in a divorce? Threatening to put his wife and kids out? The guy is not only outrageously horny but unbelievably stupid andddd heeee is the minister of sport!! How we’re not world beaters in the sports world as yet is beyond me!!
Since a ‘man’s home is his castle’ I’m guessing it’s ok to bring the current woman there while the wife and children live there.
Makes sense
So the kids and wife are actually renters then lol and the outside ting is a motel 6 hooker lol
Mel Lissa that is de kind of feminist based response i was expecting
That’s not a feminist response it’s sarcasm and your response confirms that I’m done responding to this thread…..
Remember Malik Johnson, reading is optional LOL
Lol thanks for the reminder Brentos …gonna exercise that option lol lol
We could all agree to reapectfully disagree with each other.
Wait..’feminist based’
allyuh good yes
Malik Johnson I right behind yuh.
Lasana I want a first peek at the story when one of these fellahs wife bring she lover home while she still living with them and the chirren eh.
I think people missing the point. We doh really care what Darryl do with his personal life. He himself gave the whole sordid incident a new lease on life by putting out that crass statement. He wouldn’t be the first man to bring the horner woman home. But he is a public figure and thought he would score some points by issuing a public statement. I don’t even care who leaked the video. But if he was looking for public sympathy he will get little.
Mel she will be deemed a demon then
Of-course Kai
We will read about she in the news too but we’re just feminists
Raymond C K Williams trying to understand why u believe only ‘feminists’ would have an issue with the ministers conduct?
Dawn, it’s always interesting as well, to see “feminist” being used as a pejorative.
Malik Johnson, just to put the complete name, he is the Min of Sport and Youth Affairs.
Just to emphasise your point about example.
A lot of you take pleasure in making other people’s private business your food for life.
He is a government minister and in public life and open to scrutiny because he took an oath to serve. All the more his behaviour should be above question.
Is Trump own above questions? He is the President of the USA. Come again
Wired868 bacchanalist. Find something constructive to talk about.
Well let the world see what kind of a husband and father he is what is the pm saying now not a role model for this country tax payers money and she karma comes around
So true Randy Mohammed
Well said Abernadette George
What goes up always comes down
Better than this Lasana. Dissapointed..
What disappointed you?
Don’t have a purview for any politician but this is footage taken from inside the man’s home. It’s seems vindictive and along the lines of cyber bullying. No need to give it legs.
The parties readily admit that they’re going their separate ways. Some divorces are acrimonious, so parties try to shame the other by any means necessary… but we all know that. Your satire and political commentary has always been enlightening and spot on. But this misses the mark. There are enough “baccanalists” on these islands.
Randy, we didn’t write when the video footage came out. You can check through our archives yourself.
Know why we did now? Because he went on Facebook and said his attorney will file for an exclusion order against his wife. Know what that means? That he will try to have the court eject her.
Now he could have filed for that privately just like he filed for his divorce. Not so? It would then be his business.
He chose to tell the country instead, using his network as MP and Minister. The only purpose of making that public was to humiliate and/or intimidate his wife.
And THAT–as well as the half-truth about his marital status–is what made the difference and why there is a story on this.
Damn if you do damn if you don’t. They are separated aren’t they? It doesn’t look like he hiding anything. I don’t give him any kudos for making what was already in the public domain more public. However it seems if you don’t defend your name the naysayers are going to drag it through the mud. If you stay quiet, they’re going to drag it through the mud. Neither party had any right to make the personal issue of a divorce public. But I truly believe in “do unto others..” If I were in that position I don’t know what my own reaction would have been. Hurt and humiliation comes to mind, as he said this wasn’t the first time. There are kids involved and no matter the position everyone is human. This sordid affair was always of a personal nature. When it affects the public I’m one of those who condemn them vehemently. I still don’t see it as a story for Trinis to cast aspersions on the man.
And no one fallible…
Nobody is fallible. However, he made a public statement and this article is a response to his public statement.
Didn’t he deny having a relationship with this woman though? Yes, it is unfortunate that this private video was leaked. But, now that it is in the public domain, it raises questions about his statements and actions during the hand-on-the-butt photo incident and the Tobago trip incident….if, in fact, it is the same woman.
First it was the man himself Rowley wining on ah 17yrs child for carnival , well she get ah house for that wine , next it was Al Wari wining on Stewi or was it the other way around ? Oh well , then it is this chick looking like she trying to cross a log but ppl say that she making out with Barrel Smith …who’s next lol
You forget Marlene and she boy Burke !
Hahahahahaha
That power u have now won’t last forever so make sure n put away some u might need it
4 kids
Woman hadda start all over
Darryl is a very disrespectful dog, regardless of what his wife and kids are still in the house, that same woman will do him worst than that, Karma is a bitch, i hope he knows that, his wife dam right if is she that did it, and he saying that his father was there, then he have no respect for his father, what kind of ppl we have representing us in Parliament, even if you and your wife not together, she’s still in the house, so what about your kid’s, omg god don’t sleep, what go around, comes around don’t worry, anytime you are out if the lam light you will see how much that woman want you, and she as a woman should think, but she wants to prove to the wife that she take over, but just wait, god don’t sleep,
Sorry to say, but the Minister of Sports should be relieved of his duties. He has brought his office into disrepute. His affair with one of his former direct reports, which likely started when she worked under him – no pun intended – is enough to see him removed from office. Enough is enough!
Carlos Lee, that is the larger issue to me. His affair with a subordinate. More than anything this is where the failure directly impacted his job.
Yes Brent. I’m amazed he’s still in office. Especially now that it’s confirmed he was hitting up on his subordinate. I wonder if she’s the only one he was harassing at the office.
To my understanding, she was in the group that went to Tobago a few months ago when his ministry was accused of spening $92k lavishly on the trip. This should raise much eyebrows looking back. Yet the issue is the man’s private life.
Yup. I recall that debacle. Looking back we can easily see it was an expensive date paid for by the public. Our PM needs to ask for his immediate resignation.
You know what would be cool?
If Darryl took some time off from horning his wife and did his job!
He probably doe know how
Too bad horning is not a sport.
Maybe Darryl waiting for the tide to come in to do his job???. I just cannot get that line out of my head. His new year resolution should be to get down to a size where being on top will not pose a safety risk?
Hmmmnnñnnn . … that video remind me Barryl …
Horning IS A Sport.
Olympics in Trinidad Every Day
That is the level of fierce competition here
Your article intrigues, Lasana
This man behaving so deleteriously; Yet He is the one to file for divorce???!!!
In what dimension?
Shocking. And, Telling
Money talk b@%% $#it walks. No respect for his parents and his children. As d PM say ladies choose y’all men wisely
Continue to provide us with proper facts Lasana Liburd….
Allyuh only talking bout the man and he exwife and the outside woman..what about the 91k dollars wasted in tobago..money which i thought we did not hv..money from an empty treasury..money kamla theif..
Darryl might as well horn his wife, it’s not like he’s busy promoting sports in Trinidad.
Shame shame shame. Didn’t he think people would find out if he was really divorced.
Oye Ignorami– it was an entourage that went to tobago not him and her alone is partisan politics going to always affect the way we think?
And he cannot spend money for a trip he cannot the only person who can do that is the PS if they sent for approvals and the ps said so and so cant go then they cannot go…the end. The PS is the accounting officer
I hope you were saying that about the $34M Lifesportt cheque and you were not blaming Anil Roberts ?♀️?♀️?♀️?♀️?♀️
Lasana,your page attracts a lot of moralists and divorce attorneys pardna.lol
Yesssss lol
Read the comments ?
She only want he money
*passing through sipping tea looking for anyone who as NEVER been tempted by a person of the opposite sex, same sex, animal sex, a toaster, a ghost in the cemetery or even at the thought of sucking your own penis…*
**stops and thinks: oh, wait… plenty people here airing out their gums ain’t even been married… so it ok to do to their bf, gf, top or bottom but once you married you must click off the light switch???**
#gtfoh #yethatiswithoutsin
I really couldn’t care less what Darryl does with his spare time, I just want someone to explain to me what exactly is a T&T Sports Minister.
I mean for real …. look at the state of local sports, a toddler could administrate that just as poorly in exchange for a bobo, why waste money paying a minister?
He starting to make Gary Hunt look good. And all Gary did was commission a massive erection? (of a flag?)
Try compiling a list of ministers from any administration who functioned adequately.
Go ahead … ah dare yuh!
Vernal it easier to solve a differential equation …
Without a calculator ?
I knew one back in the day ….he died!!!
Vernal Damion Cadogan, I will accept your dare. Despite my concern about her appointment, Mrs Manning did a good job in both ministries she was at, from what I understand. So did Mrs Beckles. I believe I read positive feedback about Mr Cadiz performance in tourism, as well as Mr Bharath at Trade. And I will say, under a former Min, road works were carried out at night and with spot lights, causing minimal interruptions.
The truth is, it is a sad reflection on the party we claim to support if the non performers, the ones with questionable reputations, the immoral characters, are the best you can offer. It makes your party look bad. It makes your country look bad. Worse, not just look, it is just bad for our growth and development.
We never had a functioning tourism minister and I can say that with confidence because T&T doesn’t have a tourism industry, what it has is an expatriatism side business.
Who cares
Well Mr. PM should fire him since this video surfaced or I forgot the PM love to wine on young women too
He should have been fired after the furore over the Tobago trip!
Nerisha If I recall correctly, Rowley in his defence of Smith said he was young, right? Implying that he would learn from his mistakes. The reality hasn’t borne this out.
Right, and something about him not properly mentoring them?
Thank you for this sub thread
This is a #fixitrowley #familyvalues moment