00:00First of all, I did not even mention the real barbarous, if you'll remember that.
00:06What I did say is that it was very unsettling to me that a citizen of Trinidad people was abducted
00:13forcibly in another curriculum state
00:15and that the aircraft that was used to pick him up there, bring him down, was a curriculum aircraft.
00:23So the authority must have come in somewhere.
00:26Prime Minister Kamla Pasal-Basasa is showing no signs of backing down from her strongly-witted remarks about the 2022
00:33Brent Thomas matter
00:34during the opening ceremony for the CARICOM Heads of Government meeting in St. Kitts in Nevis earlier this week.
00:41Speaking with the media outside of the Red House in Port of Spain on Friday,
00:45Prime Minister Pasal-Basasa filled out a question about whether she thinks there should be a commission of inquiry into
00:50the matter.
00:51Those are matters that I want to put up in the cabinet and have discussions.
00:55Commissioners' inquiry costs a lot of money.
00:57And you have heard me already saying, you know, we have to use the money for the people,
01:02for delivery of goods and services, and investing.
01:04It's something we will wait.
01:06I know there's some of the view that might be the only way to find out what really happened and
01:11how it happened.
01:11The Prime Minister fielded another question on that issue.
01:38The Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago responded to another question about the strong response
01:43from the Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Motley, who distanced the government of Barbados
01:48from any suggestion that it was involved in a kidnapping.
01:52Prime Minister Pasal-Basasa referred to a letter she wrote on the matter when she had been the opposition leader
01:57in 2022.
01:58Prime Minister Pasal- I then said I had written to the CARICOM Secretariat to give her some responses
02:03on what happened, how this could happen.
02:05And then when the judgment came out, it was the court which said that he was forced to be abducted,
02:11abducted or without the law, with the law, it was a court.
02:14And I did say that when I made my comments, that the Supreme Court had so ruled.
02:19And now it is that the government of Barbados has to use taxpayers' dollars from Barbados
02:24to pay Mr. Brent Thomas damages.
02:27They accepted liability, the AG accepted liability for the actions.
02:31And what more can I say, where's the lie then?
02:33The Prime Minister was referring to a High Court judgment in Trinidad and Tobago.
02:39Jewel Brown, TV6 News.
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