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He said politicians must always advance the principles of integrity, honour, confidence and trustworthiness in their words and actions.

While he declined to make any comment about the ruling of Justice Mira Dean-Armorer on the 2014 Life Sport audit on Monday and all of the events which occurred subsequent to that, Ramadhar said his focus at this time is to ensure his constituents are returned to government.

In this regard, Ramadhar reiterated that whatever is done to achieve this goal, must engender the trust of the population and adhere to the highest standards of integrity in public affairs.

Roberts unsuccessfully challenged Ramadhar for the leadership of the COP in July 2011.

Roberts was suspended from the party in June 2014, after he failed to respond to a request by the COP to co-operate and clear the air on a video of someone resembling a government minister rolling a joint. At a UNC meeting in Diego Martin on Monday, Persad-Bissessar hinted at Roberts becoming an Opposition Senator. At the meeting, Roberts claimed he was vindicated since the findings of the Life Sport audit were null and void. At the post-Cabinet news conference at the Office of the Prime Minister in St Clair on Thursday, Finance Minister Colm Imbert and Minister in the Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs Stuart Young said former Sport Ministry permanent secretary Ashwin Creed and several LifeSport directors who were not given a chance to be heard before an audit report into the controversial programme was laid in Parliament by Persad- Bissessar on July 25, 2014, will now get their chance to speak.

Imbert and Young reiterated that the ruling last Monday by Dean-Armorer meant the findings of the 2014 LifeSport audit by the Finance Ministry’s central audit committee have not been quashed.