Warner: No word from Dookeran

UNC deputy political leader Jack Warner said yesterday he had received no word from party political leader Winston Dookeran about the findings of an internal commission of inquiry which found there was no wrongdoing in a recount which gave Vasant Bharath the UNC deputy chairman post over St Joseph MP Gerald Yetming. Yetming  won the post during the party’s October 2 national executive elections, but lost after a recount. Warner told Newsday that he personally delivered the signed documents of the commission’s findings to Dookeran’s Trincity home at 2 pm on Christmas Eve and placed them in Dookeran’s mail box. Warner added that since then,  he has not received any word from the UNC political leader to confirm receipt of the documents or whether he (Dookeran) has made any decision about the commission’s findings.

Contacted yesterday, Yetming said he had no idea whether Dookeran had received the findings of the commission of inquiry into the recount or if he (Dookeran) made any decision about those findings. Efforts to contact Dookeran yesterday were unsuccessful and party sources claimed that the UNC political leader is currently overseas. Yetming reiterated that he has no intention of resigning from Parliament, leaving the UNC or becoming an independent MP similar to his former party colleagues Gillian Lucky and Dr Fuad Khan. Reiterating his belief that Prime Minister Patrick Manning may call a snap general election next June, Yetming said it was critical that the UNC put its house in order by the end of January in order to prepare for those elections. Yetming has previously indicated that he did not enter politics to be in Opposition.