The People’s National Movement (PNM) campaigned obsessively in the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) elections on the issue of the suitability of Watson Duke for office, and lost comprehensively. Days later, it began trying to discredit the winning party by reference to Duke’s alleged conflicts of interest. The court …
Read More »Demming: Thanks for transparency, Imbert; now we need repercussions for Scoon party boat
‘When the lights go on, the cockroaches scatter’, is what popped into my mind when I read about the Ministers of Finance, Health and Trade and Industry, the Attorney General and the Adrian Scoon party boat issue. A special restaurant licence was issued to businessman Scoon without the approval of …
Read More »Live Wire sheds a tear as Minister of Hypocrisy uses time-travel to join Boxing Day boat party
24 December: The Ministry of Health urges citizens to ‘keep the festivities at home this year’ and ‘celebrate responsibly within your household bubble’. 26 December: Party promoter Adrian Scoon accepts close to 100 paying patrons on to his pleasure boat, Ocean Pelican, for a ‘Seaside Brunch Party’—only it is not …
Read More »Persad-Bissessar: Al-Rawi should try ‘mandatory truth-telling’ over Boxing Day boat party
“[…] Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi allegedly advised the son of Minister Paula Gopee Scoon, Adrian Scoon, on a way to bypass Covid-19 regulations so as to throw a fete on a boat by declaring it to be a ‘floating restaurant’. “[…] The fact that our Covid-19 infection and death rates continue …
Read More »Anyone for ‘Covid roulette’? Live Wire has an uncomfortable experience on Scoon’s ‘pleasure boat’
During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic and with Trinidad and Tobago recording an average of 23 deaths a day, 100 persons headed to west Trinidad for a boat lime—allegedly put on by Adrian Scoon, the son of Minister of Trade and Industry Paula Gopee-Scoon. According to one advert for …
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