Shal­iza Has­sanali

For­mer PNM min­is­ter Camille Robin­son-Reg­is who was once ac­cused of mis­us­ing a cred­it card says Health Min­is­ter Dr Fuad Khan was to­tal­ly out­side of his re­mit in us­ing a Gov­ern­ment-is­sued cred­it card to pur­chase items. "Per­son­al­ly, I think if some­thing like that hap­pens the Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment should at the ear­li­est op­por­tu­ni­ty apol­o­gise and try to in­di­cate what may have led to the im­pro­pri­ety."

At yes­ter­day's PNM Gen­er­al Coun­cil Meet­ing, the is­sue in­volv­ing the al­leged use of the cred­it cards by To­ba­go De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Ver­nel­la Al­leyne-Top­pin and Khan was raised. Robin­son-Reg­is said it was im­por­tant for one to put their cards on the ta­ble. "I was sur­prised at what he (Khan) said about the way he used the cred­it card, in terms of mak­ing on­line pur­chas­es and that kind of thing, which is to­tal­ly out­side the re­mit of the use of the cred­it card."

Stat­ing that it was in­ter­est­ing for her to talk about the cred­it card is­sue, "but the Lord works in mys­te­ri­ous ways". Robin­son-Reg­is said she hoped that peo­ple had un­der­stood her sit­u­a­tion, which she ex­plained then and even up to this day. "I trust, that, it is not­ed, that at no time did I use the funds of the gov­ern­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go. I just want to re­it­er­ate that." Five years ago, Robin­son-Reg­is who served as min­is­ter of plan­ning and de­vel­op­ment was al­so em­broiled in an al­leged cred­it card fi­as­co.