00:00Attorney General John Jeremy, senior counsel, knocked the scant presence of the opposition MPs in the sitting of the lower
00:08house today.
00:08I come from a PNM which got a 33-3 cut skin. And I served a prime minister, Patrick Manning,
00:20who would talk to us about how he felt coming into the parliament to face people like Bazio Pandey and
00:30Ramesh Lonsmurad.
00:31And he had to sit down quietly, take his blows, and he took his blows.
00:38He offered some advice to the leader of the opposition bench in the House, calling them a shameful opposition.
00:46That is what the PNM was. So I'm speaking on behalf of those opposites, including my friend from Aruka Lopino,
00:57who, as the leader of the opposition bench, should be man enough to tell his friends to come out from
01:05where they are hiding.
01:06Jeremy referenced the opposition leader's comment that the country is in a failing state.
01:12What Arima spoke about when she spoke about a failing state, wasn't that, you know,
01:18it was the fact that we had passed four laws, including a law which they describe as zones.
01:27It is the special operations bill. They describe it as the zones law. What does that law do?
01:36It allows us to bring order into a situation where there is chaos. How could that possibly be a failed
01:45state?
01:46He then turned to former Energy Minister Stuart Young, who was reported to have made 13 trips to Caracas in
01:54his capacity.
01:55Jeremy disputed that figure, citing a six-page document in hand supplied to him by the Homeland Security Minister.
02:02On the first page alone, Mr. Speaker, I see 26 trips.
02:12And when I multiply that by six, I think math was my strong point.
02:24I did pass, but math was my strong point.
02:28But I think that that is something like 156.
02:32And no, let me qualify that.
02:36That is two and through.
02:40Jeremy said that's quite a lot of travel for one human being and alleges there are no cabinet notes to
02:47support it.
02:48I saw, I might be wrong again, but I saw four different diplomatic passports.
02:57For one person.
03:01I don't know if, maybe, maybe, I am just giving the information.
03:07I'm just giving, I'm just giving the information.
03:10Now, I'm not sure what that means.
03:13He referred to some of those trips as ghost trips.
03:17Some of these trips, you have records of him going and not coming back.
03:24Coming back and not going.
03:28Going to Panama.
03:30Going to Panama.
03:34David Roderick, so.
03:37Going to Panama and then finding his way to Caracas.
03:43Jeremy called on the Minister of Homeland Security to launch an inquiry into the members' previous movement in and out
03:51of the country.
03:54Going to Panama and then finding his way to Caracas.
