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Friday, May 2, 2025

Warner to talk on new Flying Squad tomorrow (with CNC3 video)

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Fly­ing Squad con­tro­ver­sy

Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Jack Warn­er says he will give a full state­ment on the new Fly­ing Squad to­mor­row.Speak­ing to re­porters af­ter vis­it­ing the rel­a­tives of slain po­lice of­fi­cer Sgt Hay­den Man­war­ring yes­ter­day, Warn­er said there had nev­er been a new Fly­ing Squad.He said: "I pro­pose to make a full state­ment on that on Fri­day and I will talk to the na­tion for the last time. I want to say as far as I am con­cerned, there has nev­er been a Fly­ing Squad.

"I know of no Fly­ing Squad. I have no con­tract with any Fly­ing Squad. I have no let­ters be­tween any Fly­ing Squad and me. I have no e-mails be­tween me and any Fly­ing Squad. There is noth­ing be­tween the per­ma­nent sec­re­tary and any Fly­ing Squad."He added: "It con­tin­ues to bog­gle my mind about the gulli­bil­i­ty of a na­tion, with the help of the me­dia, over some­thing which to my knowl­edge does not ex­ist."

Warn­er was al­so dis­mis­sive of Op­po­si­tion Leader Dr Kei­th Row­ley, who in­sist­ed on Tues­day the Fly­ing Squad had been re­vived.He said: "Row­ley has his work to do and let him do his work, with your help, of course. He con­tin­ues to be an ir­ri­tant to me. I don't have to an­swer to him. It is un­fair for him to feed the me­dia the kind of garbage. I will talk on Fri­day about this."

On al­le­ga­tions that two of his close rel­a­tives were un­der ar­rest in the Unit­ed States for mon­ey-laun­der­ing, Warn­er said: "I heard that al­le­ga­tion and I chal­lenge any­body to print it or pub­lish it or put it in the news. I don't have to an­swer you."If they claim they are de­tained, then call them and find out. You have their phone num­bers."Pressed fur­ther, Warn­er added: "I will not say any­thing un­less some­one is bold enough or brave enough to print some­thing. I chal­lenge any­body in the me­dia to do that. I will like to be a rich man.

"I have said noth­ing and I say to you that [my two rel­a­tives] are not in any way in­car­cer­at­ed and I won't say much more than that. If any­body knows any­thing oth­er­wise, then print it."Warn­er said he would not be de­terred by de­trac­tors but vowed to bring crime un­der con­trol and said he chose not to at­tend the Cari­com meet­ing in Haiti with the Prime Min­is­ter be­cause of the cur­rent crime wave.

He added: "I did not at­tend with the Haiti del­e­ga­tion. The Prime Min­is­ter did ask me and I told the PM that with the lev­el of crime in the coun­try and the fact that there is no [ju­nior] min­is­ter in my min­istry, I want­ed to stay here to keep my fin­ger and my pulse on the crime."He al­so de­nied he was go­ing to re­sign."You ever know me to run from any­thing?" he asked.

Warn­er said ad­di­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty had been de­ployed in east Trinidad ow­ing to an in­crease in crime. He al­so said he made an aer­i­al tour of the coasts ear­ly yes­ter­day to look at the coastal sta­tions which would be erect­ed to stop the in­flux of guns and am­mu­ni­tion.He said: "We are build­ing a mar­itime wall around Trinidad with 12 coastal sta­tions and two in To­ba­go. We iden­ti­fied the 12 sta­tions and on Wednes­day the com­mit­tee meets to make an as­sess­ment and then these walls will be erect­ed."

He added that Gov­ern­ment would hold talks with the Colom­bian Gov­ern­ment to help stamp out crime and a del­e­ga­tion from Colom­bia would vis­it T&T on Feb­ru­ary 27.


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