Mohammed quits NCIC board over ‘untrue’ Nagar funding claims
Another appointed member has quit the National Council for Indian Culture’s board, with Dr Shane Mohammed accusing the organisation of allowing an untrue claim that Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar cut funding for Divali Nagar 2026 to go uncorrected. In his resignation letter to NCIC president Surujdeo Mangaroo, Mohammed said the uncorrected narrative had brought the Prime Minister and her office into disrepute. “In the past week, a narrative in the public’s domain that the Honourable Prime Minister pulled the plug on funding for Divali Nagar 2026 has not been corrected. Continue…
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