Sacha Wil­son

Deputy po­lit­i­cal leader of Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) Prakash Ra­mad­har de­scribes as an "in­ter­na­tion­al em­bar­rass­ment," the halt­ing of the Com­mis­sion of En­quiry in­to the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of T&T (Ude­cott) and the con­struc­tion sec­tor. He was speak­ing to re­porters dur­ing his walk through San Fer­nan­do Mar­ket yes­ter­day, to en­cour­age peo­ple to join them in their cam­paign against im­ple­men­ta­tion of the prop­er­ty tax.

They walked through the streets of San Fer­nan­do, giv­ing out "Axe the tax" jer­seys, fly­ers and stick­ers. Ra­mad­har said: "It's an in­ter­na­tion­al em­bar­rass­ment....I think that they were sur­prised at the enor­mi­ty of the cor­rup­tion which was un­earthed in the in­quiry, and they do not wish to have a for­mal lay­ing of the re­port by Mr Uff, who has proven him­self to be a man of great in­tegri­ty and strength, in the face of all the prob­lems, to car­ry on with the work."

Ra­mad­har called on act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice James Philbert to launch an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the al­le­ga­tions of cor­rup­tion. "You have the pow­er to get the sworn tes­ti­mo­ny. It is al­ready avail­able. Launch a crim­i­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tion. You do not have to wait on the re­port from the com­mis­sion," he added.