Court Decision Turns Barrow’s Position on Its Head

Earlier this week, News Five caught up with Opposition Leader Shyne Barrow after the election date was announced. During our interview, the Mesopotamia Area Rep didn’t hold back, criticizing us for letting Tracy Taegar-Panton call herself the leader of the United Democratic Party. Barrow was so sure of his stance that he outright dismissed any idea that she could or should be called the U.D.P. leader. However, Justice Hondora’s recent dismissal of Barrow’s contempt claims has turned that position on its head, along with his belief that we were complicit in allowing Panton to use the title.  Here’s what he said on Tuesday.

 

Shyne “Moses” Barrow, Leader of the Opposition

“Certainly, I believe your media house has been somewhat irresponsible.  I think that you have not followed the law as far as what the decision of the court has been and you have been willfully complicit in the confusion that we have out there in the public because, not because I say I am the prime minister, it doesn’t make me prime minister.  So someone claiming to be leader of the UDP with a fake event that was not any sanctioned or authorized by the United Democratic Party, the people who were legitimately elected as the executive.  The fact that Channel Five even gives any credence to that, when any lawyer will tell you that there is no way that any court will rule that October twentieth was in fact a legitimate event of the UDP.  So it’s very, very irresponsible of Channel Five to even accept that there is any remote possibility of two leaders.  There is one leader of the UDP and clearly when the judge in the High Court , Justice Hondora, returned the property of the UDP to the Central Executive of the UDP, that was deliberate and that was not Tracy Panton.  So I don’t see how you will listen to her and not listen to the court.”