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Finnegan And Vidal “Catch”
posted (February 21, 2018)
And while that was the scene with the PUP in the morning, in the afternoon the scene was between Southside Commander, Senior Superintendent Marco Vidal and the UDP's Michael Finnegan. It seems that Vidal did not want to let in anyone who was not a candidate or an endorser. Now, the custom is that all the leading political personalities from the city enter the compound of the CB Hyde building and congregate at the entrance to the building. But, it seems Vidal had some problems with that and he didn't seem to be listening to appeals from the UDP Secretary General Peal Stuart or Finnegan himself - who was appealing from outside the gate. The Prime Minister had to get up from his seat inside and go to the gate and basically order that they be let in.

With that the gate was opened for those personalities, and there was an exchange of words between Vidal and Finnegan. Our camera didn't catch the nasty part of it when they pointed at each other - but we did see some hard talk. We asked Finnegan about it:..

Jules Vasquez, reporter
"Good afternoon Mr. Finnegan, what happened at the gate sir? I saw you were vociferous."

Hon. Michael Finnegan
"Nothing to talk about."

Jules Vasquez, reporter
"I see you were pointing fingers..."

Hon. Michael Finnegan
"Nothing to talk about man."

We did see Finnegan take up the complaint with senior officers.

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