PM responds to UNC’s Tobago townhouse claims: ‘I have no questions to answer’

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PM responds to UNC’s Tobago townhouse claims: ‘I have no questions to answer’

The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday Tobago Page 9, form A, of Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley's 2019 integrity in public life declaration (filed in December 2020) as shown to reporters at a press conference at the PM's Official Residence in Blenheim, Tobago on Friday. - KINNESHA GEORGE-HARRY The Prime Minister is considering legal action against United National Congress (UNC) MP Saddam Hosein who accused him of not declaring to the Integrity Commission the purchase of a […]

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