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The big news tonight is political. There’s more ruction coming out of City Hall as City Administrator Englebert Pererra has gone public against his own Mayor. He gave us an explosive interview, but first…7NEWS has confirmed that Juliet Thimbriel has resigned from the Senate. The news of her resignation was made public when WAVE Radio broadcast it as the headline on the midday news. Thimbriel’s resignation comes after a stormy session today on WAVE Radio’s “Fus thing Da Mawnin’” show, which she co-hosts.

Here’s how it went: City Administrator Englebert Perrera called in and spoke out against the Mayor, and after that the Mayor called in to give her side of the story. That’s when Thimbriel and the Mayor got into a testy back and forth, an argument, with Thimbriel scolding Moya, telling her that she was embarrassing the party and she should handle her council business properly – all this on the UDP’s radio station.

That angered Party Leader Dean Barrow who, we are told, made his displeasure known in very plain terms to Thimbriel. She responded to what we are told was a firm rebuke by resigning from the Senate, the only official post she held in the UDP. News of that may not have reached Barrow who left the country today. 7NEWS has confirmed that she has also been placed on a two week suspension from on-air duties at WAVE Radio.

Now the resignation of a Senator is not necessarily a huge deal unto itself, but this Senator is the Party Leader’s arch-loyalist; make no mistake, Juliet Thimbriel is one of Barrow’s most trusted advisors. Politically, her resignation is a big deal. But the back story to all this is that beyond what even the public is seeing, the UDP is divided – and it’s all over Zenaida Moya. Highly placed UDP sources tell us that there is a strong feeling within the party that the anti-Moya faction orchestrated yesterday’s protest against the mayor.