By SEAN DOUGLAS Wednesday, October 28 2009

CHAGUANAS West MP Jack Warner yesterday endorsed last Sunday’s words of UNC leader Basdeo Panday that the party must not be a haven for international conmen or an avenue for money laundering, but added that it must also not be a shelter for convicted felons.

Warner, who is in Nigeria on FIFA business, yesterday faxed media houses a comment on Panday’s address to last Sunday’s UNC National Congress, a periodic meeting of party delegates, held at Rienzi Complex.

Saying the party must not have felons, Warner said, “For that’s not the UNC that will gain the public’s trust and support either”.

Alluding to the UNC elections due on January 24, 2010, Warner said he is not seeking to become UNC leader, but he was just an interested observer and a voter.

“As for a call for Kamla Persad-Bissessar to become party leader, well I agree with the need for a leadership election. Once Kamla makes her intentions known, it will become a matter for her and the party’s true membership of which I am but one”.