Trinidad and Tobago’s embattled former Sports Minister, Anil Roberts, today officially resigned from that country’s parliament.
Speaker of the House of Assembly, Wade Mark, told legislators that he’d received a letter from Roberts, indicating his decision to resign as the parliamentary representative for the constituency he won in the 2010 general election.
Last Thursday, Roberts resigned as Sports Minister in the wake of a damning audit of a controversial multi-million dollar Sport programme.
The audit revealed it had been riddled with discrepancies, including procurement breaches and the involvement of some persons in criminal activities.
Roberts had consistently denied any wrongdoing but said he was resigning with ‘a heavy heart’.
