But, the hostilities between Shyne Barrow and Beverly Williams have found other outlets - she's been expelled from the UDP - even if she is Phillip Goldson's niece.
This week, it caught everyone by surprise when the UDP chairman Mike Peyrefitte announced casually in an internal communication that John Saldivar, Tracy Panton, Patrick Faber and Beverly Williams had been expelled from the UDP.
That was different because days earlier they had just been labelled as having "constructively resigned". So when were they expelled? Many expressed doubt and we asked Shyne Barrow about it on Wednesday:
Reporter:
"All four of them expelled?"
Shyne Barrow, Leader of the Opposition
"Yes."
Reporter:
"They're saying that no NPC has been held."
Shyne Barrow, Leader of the Opposition
"Yes we had Central Executive, we had NPC. Then they complained that it was only 17 people, it was only 18 people."
"We had a Central Executive Meeting."
Reporter:
"By WhatsApp?"
Shyne Barrow, Leader of the Opposition
"No, Zoom."
And while Barrow claims to have had a NPC and a Central Executive - by Zoom to expel the four - his own Deputy Chairman is on record disagreeing with that. Two days ago, August posted an interesting response to a Facebook comment from someone claiming to be a delegate. That person expressed confusion over whether the four were indeed expelled after a meeting of the NPC and the National Executive
August responded, quote, "we made two attempts to discuss Party business at the NPC, the first was boycotted and the second was disrupted. We have made no other attempt since." The one that was disrupted of course was the one on August third.
So, Deputy Chairman's August's statement directly repudiates his party leader's claim that, quote, "Yes we had Central Executive, we had NPC". In so doing it gives fuel to the other side who claim the entire expulsion is baseless.
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