PM ‘insulted’ as people claim bias on daughter’s return home

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THE Prime Minister says no favours were granted for his daughter to return home for Christmas. Like any other citizen stuck abroad, he said, she applied and was granted an exemption.
He was speaking at a press conference on Wednesday.
Dr Rowley's daughter Sonel Rowley-Stewart returned to Trinidad and Tobago last Wednesday.
SOme people have suggested Rowley "pulled strings" to get her home from New York for Christmas.
On these claims, Rowley said, "Let me just tell you something, eh. I am a citizen of this country. I am proud of this country. But the behaviour of some is simply disgusting.
"Everybody knows from day one, I am a father of a daughter who lives in the middle of New York, when New York was the centre of the worst of covid19, and I lived with that every night and every day as I managed TT's affairs."
He said he felt insulted and that "nameless and placeless people on social media preaching" should do better.
"She didn't get any favour, she didn't jump any queue. All those who feel you have a story on that, you on your own with that."
National Security Minister Stuart Young also said no favours were granted to the Prime Minister's family.
He said, "At no point in time did the Prime Minister have any conversation with me as the minister of national security."
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