Pubdate: Tue, 27 May 2014
Source: Trinidad Express (Trinidad)
Copyright: 2014 Trinidad Express
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Author: Joel Julien

ROBERTS' BEHAVIOUR 'REASON NOT TO SUPPORT LEGALISING MARIJUANA'

IF there is any move to legalise marijuana in this country, the recent
antics by Sport Minister Anil Roberts is good reason not to support
it, Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley said yesterday.

Speaking at a news conference at the Office of the Opposition Leader
at Charles Street, Port of Spain, Rowley said he was told this by
someone yesterday.

Last week TV6 News aired a video in which a man who looks and speaks
like a Government minister was captured rolling a marijuana joint.

In response to questions by the media last week surrounding the video,
Roberts said he wanted Rowley to know no "video" or "voodoo" would
stop him from telling the population Rowley was the worst thing to
happen to Trinidad and Tobago.

On Monday, when again approached by the media on the issue of the
video, Roberts instead raised questions about Rowley and the People's
National Movement's public relations officer, Faris Al-Rawi.

Roberts asked whether Rowley was prepared to answer allegations made
against him back in Tobago in 1969. He said when Rowley is ready to
take a DNA "paternity test", he (Roberts) would take a drug test.

Rowley was yesterday asked to respond to Roberts's latest statement.
"Somebody told me something this morning. I should tell you that if
there was any move to legalise marijuana in Trinidad and Tobago, Mr
Roberts' behaviour is good reason not to support that move," Rowley
said.

"Any call to me from Mr Roberts is a distraction from the matter in
front of him and the country. I can tell you without fear of
contradiction I don't know where Mr Roberts was, but I was never in
Room 201 with any Colombian prostitutes interfering with any substance
in or out of any cigarette, so I think he is misplacing me," he said.

"With respect to his call for a DNA test, if he has any problem with
the paternity of his children, it is not my problem. I have nothing to
prove there," Rowley said.
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