No return date yet for Padarath

THERE is no confirmed date as yet for UNC Princes Town MP Barry Padarath to return to TT.

Padarath, who is in Florida, told Newsday on Monday, "I will be advising the Ministry (of National Security) of my proposed flight details very soon. I am awaiting some additional information that is required."

When contacted on Tuesday, Padarath said, "I am still awaiting additional information." He added that options to return to TT are "very limited" at this time.

Newsday was also reliably informed that Padarath had not provided any further information to the ministry with respect to his proposed return to TT.

Padarath left TT in March, before its borders were closed.

On June 16, National Security Minister Stuart Young said, "MP Padarath's application for an exemption to enter TT on his behalf, and that of his daughter, has been granted."

Sejal Lara Padarath, the MP's daughter, is a US citizen and lives in Florida.

Young also said, "I have extended an offer that he may be quarantined at a hotel being used for state-supervised quarantine, at his own cost."

Padarath said he received an e-mail from Young saying exemptions had been granted for his daughter and himself. Padarath also confirmed that he would pay for his own quarantine when he returned home.

Padarath, who filed his nomination papers before leaving TT, was screened virtually from Florida on June19 as a nominee for Princes Town.

On Monday, Padarath said the UNC had not announced its candidate for Princes Town as yet.