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07 Oct 2013 06:56 #157905 by chairman
Last month’s Cabinet reshuffle may have been a close call for Sport Minister Anil Roberts, as a reliable source said yesterday that the Government had approached former West Indies and T&T cricket captain Brian Lara to be his replacement. The T&T Guardian was told that recently-appointed National Security Minister Gary Griffith had approached Lara on September 4, the day before the reshuffle, to find out if he was interested in the position. However, the double world-record holder turned down the offer because the notice was so short. Calls to Roberts’ mobile phone went to voicemail yesterday, but Cabinet colleagues who chose to speak on condition of anonymity described the claim as a rumour. “That is just old talk,” one government official said yesterday when asked about Roberts’ near-dismissal. “You really feel Brian Lara will come into that with all those endorsements he has overseas?”





The Cabinet source said another former T&T cricket captain, Daren Ganga, had also been rumoured as a replacement for Roberts, but maintained it was just old talk. Both Lara and Ganga were part of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s delegation to India last year as T&T sport ambassadors. A government minister yesterday admitted that he had heard that Roberts might be replaced, but did not know for what reason. “To be honest with you, I heard something, but I can’t confirm that...Maybe that was just a rumour floating around the place, but I really can’t say yes or no to it,” the minister said. “Honestly, I really don’t know, but politics has a way of doing these things to you. I am in politics long enough to know these things.” When asked for confirmation yesterday, Housing and Urban Development Minister Dr Roodal Moonilal said in a text message that talk of Government’s scouting of Lara was untrue. In announcing her third Cabinet reshuffle in three years on September 5, Persad-Bissessar described the changes as a move towards a reinvigorated government, adding she wanted to fast-track delivery and development.

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07 Oct 2013 20:55 #157970 by Flavia
I don't know what to believe. There is just too much hearsay in there.  ::confused::

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08 Oct 2013 06:02 #157982 by Kwami
Cynical move by Kamla  if true. Sportsmen do not make good govt officials and in Lara,s case totally unqualified for such a post 

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08 Oct 2013 12:08 #158037 by Flavia

Isn't all a little too discombobulated?

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08 Oct 2013 16:24 #158081 by Mail
Addled.... but

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09 Oct 2013 11:11 #158188 by chairman

he makes too much money elsewhere and then he will be criticized managing a small budget, people would expect him to be a savior.

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09 Oct 2013 13:37 #158224 by Googley
that paved the way for Ganga!  :P

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09 Oct 2013 13:44 #158227 by ketchim
Ganga can make more money as a practicing Lawyer !

Trinidad ha nuff crime  :-[

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10 Oct 2013 11:25 #158345 by Flavia

DWL!!!!!!! Hahahahahahaha..... You are a bad one. If so be the case, he could become international, or extend his reach to the Caribbean.

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