Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day al­leged that the shad­owy Strate­gic In­tel­li­gence Agency (SIA), which she ex­posed in Par­lia­ment on Fri­day, had di­rect­ed ma­jor­i­ty State-owned TSTT and Irish-owned Dig­i­cel to mon­i­tor the cell­phone calls, text mes­sages and e-mails of pri­vate cit­i­zens.

"The fa­cil­i­ties there were be­ing utilised but it was that TSTT was com­mand­ed so to do and there­after Dig­i­cel was com­mand­ed so to do; to al­low the fa­cil­i­ties to be used," said the Prime Min­is­ter. The Prime Min­is­ter's claim came yes­ter­day as she ad­dressed mem­bers of the me­dia af­ter she at­tend­ed the Memo­r­i­al Day event at Memo­r­i­al Park in Port-of-Spain.

She con­firmed that the Gov­ern­ment in­tend­ed to pass the re­port of the in­ves­ti­ga­tions thus far to the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions and she said that it would be up to the DPP to de­cide whether peo­ple were to be charged or not.