T&T minister denies granting travel exemption to relative
Trinidad and Tobago’s Security Minister, Stuart Young, has denied allegations he allowed a close relative to enter the country, via exemption, while the nation’s borders were closed.
Young slammed the
allegation posted in a local publication as a “complete fabrication and a
lie’”.
According to Young,
contrary to information provided in Lennox Grant’s column he had not granted an
exemption for any of his family members to enter Trinidad and Tobago.
Young noted that the timing
of the article’s release was suspicious as he had recently announced the launch
of an online application system for travel exemption requests.
This is not the first time
Young and the publication in question have been at odds. In August 2020, the
minister advised his father, Richard Young, to take legal action against the publication following a
controversial report.
The publication at the time
alleged that Young’s father had acted as a broker to transactions before the
Cabinet.
