Saturday, May 12, 2007

PM knocked for watching 'dutty wine'


Prime Minister Patrick Manning has come under criticism after a performance that he witnessed at last weekend's Plymouth Jazz Festival in Tobago.

"I went to Jazz Festival and there I saw Patrick Manning during Sean Paul's performance. He (Paul) came on stage with four dancers in underwear and one of them was doing a dutty wine upside down on her head and Patrick Manning was there smiling his face off. What a hypocrite," Congress of the People activist Capt Gary Griffith said during a political meeting in Freeport on Tuesday night.

"Prime Minister Patrick Manning said (that) when he saw the footage of the lewd dancing at Zen, that never in his life would he want to see something like that again. People have blamed Johnny Soong... Zen... Danah Alleyne... the pastor and everyone else. But the problem lies with one body and that is the Government."