Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley said on Thurs­day he was await­ing fur­ther in­for­ma­tion from the po­lice re­gard­ing Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion Min­is­ter Mar­lene Mc­Don­ald, adding he was sure in the “not too dis­tant fu­ture” he would be told by po­lice what ac­tion they will take.

“And at that time, there’ll be no need for any spec­u­la­tion,” Row­ley said in a tele­phone in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia.

Row­ley, who is on va­ca­tion in To­ba­go, said he did not know any­thing oth­er than what was pub­lished in the pub­lic do­main.

On his feel­ings about de­fend­ing Mc­Don­ald in the past, Row­ley said he was in no po­si­tion to add any­thing to that or “feel” any­how.

“Ms Mc­Don­ald has per­son­al re­spon­si­bil­i­ty and I have one. I don’t know what the is­sue is. I un­der­stand what’s in the pub­lic do­main, it start­ed with the Cal­abar Foun­da­tion. If that’s what it is, that’s a mat­ter which I had to deal with be­fore.”

He said the Cal­abar Foun­da­tion is­sue, as far he was aware, was al­leged to have oc­curred un­der the Patrick Man­ning ad­min­is­tra­tion. He added that the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion did some in­ves­ti­ga­tion and found no ba­sis to hold her ac­count­able. The mat­ter was re-opened when she be­came a min­is­ter un­der Row­ley’s ad­min­is­tra­tion, when peo­ple mak­ing the al­le­ga­tions said they had new in­for­ma­tion.

He had said then that Mc­Don­ald should be re­moved from her port­fo­lio to al­low a fur­ther in­ves­ti­ga­tion to oc­cur. At the end of that, the Com­mis­sion al­so found no ba­sis to hold her ac­count­able.

Row­ley not­ed yes­ter­day that the cur­rent sit­u­a­tion is a “third part.”

“I’m await­ing to hear what the po­lice says about what they’re do­ing. An in­ves­ti­ga­tion is go­ing on now. I’m go­ing to await the out­come,” he said.

Say­ing he won’t en­gage in spec­u­la­tion on what he may do, he added he was sure in the not too dis­tant fu­ture, he’ll be told by po­lice what the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­volves and what cer­tain ac­tion they’ll take.

“I’m not an im­pa­tient per­son,” he said.