T&T AG defends comments about the 1% visas 

He said he was very careful in speaking, and that he had said a number of persons and their friends and allies have been trooping into the Office of the AG 'to tell me they have lost their visas' Jeremie said he knew nothing about it and had not spoken with the US. Meanwhile, Fishermen and Friends of the Sea (FFOS) corporate secretary Gary Aboud said yesterday that when the Government talked about the “1%”, it was being racist. Aboud’s United States visa was revoked last November. On Wednesday, Jeremie disclosed that the US government had revoked the visas of ­certain members of the “1%” in T&T.

Without naming individuals, Jeremie recalled that in 2017 a prominent member of the '1%' described the group as small but the most powerful, in an interview with chef and CNN correspondent Anthony Bourdain. He noted that an apology was later issued and the individual said he was sorry for his careless words and had misrepresented himself and his values. The Attorney General outlined what he described as the group's influence.' But I was subsequently visited in my office by a number of persons who said that their US visas had been revoked. We all know that our American friends have sophisticated means of intelligence gathering,' he said.

'They control and own large segments of our economy. They thrived for a decade under the PNM. They have absolutely no problem accessing any amount of US dollars at any point in time to fund their businesses, their leisure travel, their lifestyles, while the rest of us struggle and line up in banks to get $200 to make foreign trips and only if we show evidence of a ticket to travel,' Jeremie stated. He said members of the group counted their foreign exchange allotments in hundreds of thousands of dollars charged to their credit cards each month on a revolving basis. 'They funded the PNM. They were revered by the PNM. They have taken over the PNM. Those opposites are their ready, happy, and willing pawns,' he said. Jeremie said his curiosity was first piqued by a question from a Guardian Media Ltd journalist, noting that the newspaper was owned by the group. The Attorney General said the influence once enjoyed by the 1% had come to an end.

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Opposition MP..Gonzales blasts Jeremie as 'diabolical hypocrite'

LEADER of Opposition Business Marvin Gonzales yesterday called Attorney General John Jeremie a 'diabolical hypocrite' and accused him of threatening a segment of the society. Gonzales expressed shock at Jeremie's remarks, which he called 'vile, diabolical and vicious'. Gonzales said Jeremie had issued a threat to a segment of the population and was threatening them as though an entire segment of the population was involved in criminal activity.

'He is a diabolical hypocrite,' Gonzales said, referring to Jeremie. Gonzales said if the AG wanted 'revenge' on a certain segment of the population, 'you are on your own with it'. Gonzales said every creed and race was welcome in T&T, including the Syrian and Lebanese. He said there were white-collar criminals committing heinous crimes and it was not just people from areas like Laventille and Beetham.

Note : Where did The PNM get 100 million to build the PNM headquarters?

Rowley said they ran a lottery ...😳

The steel in that building was done by a 1% that I know personally.

@sgtdjones

The shit hit the fan big time Sarge

Growley can't even hide and plant garden in Tobago.

Im fraid Farley now....Farley did threaten to send hisd navel string to Tittieland

'Gary Sobers' moving around like a headless chicken now

@sgtdjones

Didn'T Rowley say that they had donations by supporters and raffles too? And if a Trinidadians gave the steel for the building, what is wrong with that? Look how easily you refer to bonafide Trinidadians as 1%. Those you and your party can't control are always placed in demeaning categories and ridiculed. But, if you know that the steel for building the PNM house was obtained illegally, you have an obligation to report to the police, or you are aiding and abetting criminal activities.

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The steel in that building was done by a 1% that I know personally.

Your reading comprehension is as compromised as your party's financing. I said a top-percentile, 1% professional did the steel work, not that it was stolen. But thank you for proving that the moment anyone touches the nerve of how that building was actually erected, PNM supporters launch into a rehearsed, hysterical script about police reports and 'demeaning categories.' If the truth didn't sting, you wouldn't be deflecting this hard.

PNM dunces are so easy to destroy...😎