Gail Alexan­der

For­mer Ude­cott chair­man Calder Hart has not yet re­turned to T&T, a rel­a­tive and a gov­ern­ment spokesman con­firmed yes­ter­day. Hart left T&T a week ago, short­ly af­ter re­sign­ing as chair­man of Ude­cott and oth­er state boards on which he had served. He is at the cen­tre of a Gov­ern­ment-or­dered probe, be­gan last Sep­tem­ber by foren­sic au­di­tor Robert Lindquist, and was, there­fore, at the cen­tre of con­tro­ver­sy con­cern­ing the PNM ad­min­is­tra­tion. At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie said last week that he had re­ceived a pre­lim­i­nary re­port on the probe.

Hart, his wife Sher­rine and nine-year-old daugh­ter Jean are in Flori­da. Hart is re­port­ed to have a con­do in the up­scale Las Olas Grand de­vel­op­ment in Ft Laud­erdale. How­ev­er, it was con­firmed yes­ter­day that Hart was com­ing back to T&T "very soon." A rel­a­tive, ex­press­ing con­cern about the "hound­ing" of the fam­i­ly in Trinidad, said peo­ple were ring­ing the door­bell of their house "30 and 40 times," in a bid to see if Hart was back and to try to speak with him.