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Monday, February 24, 2025

Po­lice probe re­ports...

Kamla gets death threat

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Act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gilbert Reyes said last night he would of­fer a se­cu­ri­ty de­tail to prime min­is­te­r­i­al con­tender Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar in light of a re­port­ed threat to her life. "I would again of­fer to pro­vide her with se­cu­ri­ty," Reyes said, in re­sponse to re­ports of a $5 mil­lion con­tract to kill Per­sad-Bisses­sar. He re­vealed that the Po­lice Ser­vice had pre­vi­ous­ly of­fered to pro­vide Per­sad-Bisses­sar with of­fi­cial se­cu­ri­ty, "but she did not ac­cept."

He said: "We were told she had her own se­cu­ri­ty." Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) leader Win­ston Dook­er­an ac­cept­ed the of­fer, Reyes said.

The po­lice pol­i­cy is to of­fer se­cu­ri­ty ser­vices to all po­lit­i­cal lead­ers dur­ing an elec­tion pe­ri­od. The act­ing Com­mis­sion­er said the Po­lice Spe­cial Branch was in­ves­ti­gat­ing re­ports that some­one called the head of­fices of Per­sad-Bisses­sar's Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) at Rien­zi Com­plex, Cou­va, and told of the $5 mil­lion boun­ty.

The caller said two peo­ple had ac­cept­ed the con­tract.

The Spe­cial Branch has since in­ter­viewed a num­ber of peo­ple. UNC of­fi­cials said last night they were con­cerned about Per­sad-Bisses­sar's wel­fare, but they de­clined to state whether she would be pro­vid­ed with in­creased se­cu­ri­ty. Con­gress of the Peo­ple mem­ber Gary Grif­fith, whose se­cu­ri­ty firm was one of sev­er­al pro­vid­ing ser­vices to the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship, de­clined to dis­cuss the re­port­ed $5 mil­lion hit. Grif­fith said: "I won't want to re­veal se­cu­ri­ty op­er­a­tional plans, for ob­vi­ous rea­sons."


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