Ani­ka Gumbs-San­di­ford

In the wake of the res­ig­na­tion of the Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (Ude­cott) ex­ec­u­tive chair­man Calder Hart, Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is call­ing for a foren­sic in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the state agency. Per­sad-Bisses­sar made the call while de­liv­er­ing the fea­ture ad­dress at the Net­work for the Ad­vance­ment of Women Con­fer­ence host­ed at Cas­ca­dia Ho­tel yes­ter­day. She said, "Our na­tion breathes a col­lec­tive sigh of re­lief at this small vic­to­ry. The peo­ple call for a foren­sic in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the du­bi­ous deal­ings of Hart and Ude­cott.

We re­it­er­ate our call for the Di­rec­tor of the Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions and the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice to launch these with due haste."

Per­sad-Bisses­sar added, "Mr Hart may have been forced to re­sign un­der the weight of the ev­i­dence in the full glare of the pub­lic eye but that is not the end of the sto­ry. "It is must be the be­gin­ning of a full blown in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the cir­cum­stances of all he has been ac­cused of, and such of which is ex­pect to be re­vealed in the UFF Com­mis­sion­er of En­quiry that the courts have now cleared for pub­li­ca­tion."