A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) Opposition Member of Parliament (MP) Sherod Duncan has called Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government ‘gangsters and hypocrites’, and his party superiors must state publicly if they also feel the same way. This is according to Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, a former government minister and now, an advisor to the Health Minister.
In a recent broadcast programme, Duncan lambasted CARICOM a statement it issued following the assassination of Haiti’s President, Jovenel Moïse on Wednesday last. In the statement, CARICOM leaders condemned the assassination as “abhorrent and reprehensible” and called for the perpetrators to be apprehended and brought to justice, and for law and order to prevail. Duncan, having not found favour with the statement, accused the CARICOM leaders of being “hypocrites”. “The whole flipping Heads of Government for the region are hypocrites,” Duncan said, while adding: “All of the Caribbean leaders, y’all are hypocrites and y’all are wasting our time and taxpayers’ monies funding CARICOM.”
Dr Ramsammy, in a recent Facebook post, said that APNU+AFC leader, Joseph Harmon and People’s National Congress Reform Leader and former President, David Granger have not dissociated themselves from Duncan’s statement. He added that the opposition must state publicly how it views CARICOM.
“This MP was speaking on a regular APNU/AFC show. I’m not in the habit of calling people gangsters and hustlers. What I do know is that none of CARICOM leaders are anyway near to such labeling. What I would like to know is what do we call people who tried to thief an election in front of the whole world? While we [are] waiting, Granger and Harmon must say yes or no if they agree with Duncan. If yes, we cannot be shocked…If they say no, what will they do with Duncan?”
