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THE UNITED National Congress (UNC) says the contents of a video circulating on social media which appears to show National Security Minister Stuart Young on a video call with a woman stuck outside the borders is enough to warrant his stepping down or being fired.
The UNC, through its public relations officer Kirk Meighoo, issued a statement on Wednesday, saying the video, if authentic, clearly shows his unfairness and inequity in granting exemptions to citizens who are unconstitutionally locked out abroad by him.
The video, which lasts just over a minute, appears to have been recorded from Zoom, but is unclear how the two came to be in the discussion.
The UNC posted the video, but it originated from a Facebook page run by the Broadcasting Corporation of TT (BCOTT), along with the caption: "To all the local citizens of Trinidad and Tobago who believed the 'Misleading' narrative by the Minister of National Security that there were no more 'Exiled & Stranded TnT Citizens,' here is the latest proof with the Minister himself.'
The video appears to show the clip of a conversation between Young and a woman said to be named Deneicia Harris who says she is stuck in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
She said, "I have been waiting and waiting and waiting for an exemption."
Young asked Harris how long she had been there and she replied, "December, 2019."
"Okay, and you put in under the new (exemption application) system, etcetera?" Young continued.
"As Monday morning broke, as you said to reapply (through the) new system, I was there," Harris said.
"How would you (get back)? Would you go to Miami or to New York or something? Or Barbados?" Young followed up.
Harris interjected that she could not go to the US because she does not have a visa and would have to take a Caribbean route, via Jamaica, for example.
"All right, you have Jelani's information? Send it to him, and apologies for that."
The Facebook page purportedly run by the BCOTT dos not include a contact number or website. It has 336 "likes." There is no information in the "About" section,
Newsday sent a private message to the page, asking the administrator if there was any way to reach the BCOTT to verify the authenticity and origin of the video. Shortly after, an administrator of the page replied, "Where's? (sic) are you located?"
After giving a response, the administrator then asked what was needed, and although Newsday did explain, the page provided no information.
Nevertheless, the UNC issued a statement saying the video's content was troubling, if indeed it was real.
"As a Minister," Meighoo wrote, "Stuart Young has taken an oath to uphold the Constitution without fear or favour. One wonders, who else applied for an exemption at the same time as the woman in the leaked PNM party group video? Were they also granted exemptions?
"If the person in the video followed the official process that the rest of the country is required to, why does the Minister direct her to the PNM Party Group Chairman? What part of the approval process is this? Are exemptions still based on the whim and fancy of the Minister?"
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