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Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley was booed as he arrived for a People’s National Movement (PNM) meeting in Point Fortin on Thursday.

Police also warned a group which expressed disagreement while presen­tations were being made during the meeting, entitled “Let’s Talk Energy”.

Former Petrotrin employee Nigel White said during presentations from Minster of National Security Stuart Young and Minister of Energy Franklin Khan, he and others vocalised their disagreement with statements being made.

“While the meeting was going on, some of us had a different opinion to what was being said. We were not disturbing the meeting. It was just a matter of some of us expressing a difference of opinion. When somebody was saying, ‘Yeah’, we were saying, ‘No, untruths, cover-up’.”

White said he and about 11 former Petrotin and Trinmar workers and people from the Point Fortin area were standing in the corridor to the back of the hall at Point Fortin East Secondary school.

“He’s my Garry Sobers.”

That’s the new moniker that Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has bestowed on National Security and Communications Minister Stuart Young.

It is the second time in less than a month that the Prime Minister has singled out Young for praise. He did so when he returned from a recent trip to the United Kingdom and Europe, and sought to justify why Young’s presence was required at a time when the Venezuelan migrant registration process was ongoing.

“He is that good,” Rowley told a People’s National Movement (PNM) public meeting in Point Fortin on Thursday night, as he spoke of Young’s importance to the Government team.