The embattled Sports Minister, Anil Roberts, has resigned.
Speaking at the post Cabinet media conference this afternoon, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced that she has accepted Roberts’ resignation.
His resignation comes in the wake of allegations of corruption arising from a sport programme.
Roberts remains a Member of Parliament.
The country’s Acting President, Timothy Hamel-Smith, is to appoint Rupert Griffith as the new Minister of Sport.
The Guardian Newspaper in the twin island republic, says Roberts had insisted he had been cleared of any wrongdoing in the Life Sport audit.
It says he last week said he’d not tender his resignation from the People’s Partnership Government.
In May, a video went viral showing a person, resembling a government minister, rolling a substance believed to be marijuana into a cigarette in a hotel room with two women.
Last month, Roberts told the Prime Minister he has never used drugs during his tenure as Minister and never taken, used or experimented with illicit drugs.
Or, ever been involved with prostitutes.
Persad-Bissessar subsequently said she had no reason to remove Roberts from her Cabinet.
This, since he’d given her that explanation in a letter in relation to the controversial ganja video.
