Rad­hi­ca Sookraj

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar told sup­port­ers last night that she does not be­lieve the hi­jack­ing of her niece and of­fi­cial dri­ver ear­li­er in the day was a ran­dom rob­bery. She was speak­ing at the par­ty's po­lit­i­cal meet­ing in Pe­nal. Per­sad-Bisses­sar said what was dis­turb­ing was that her Pra­do was found mi­nus con­fi­den­tial doc­u­ments. "What is dis­turb­ing is the in­ter­pre­ta­tion one places on the re­moval of those doc­u­ments," she said.

"There were a lot of oth­er items which were not re­moved. If this was a ran­dom rob­bery, why take my doc­u­ments?" She told sup­port­ers that the par­ty's po­lit­i­cal strat­e­gy was not among the doc­u­ments stolen. Per­sad-Bisses­sar al­so re­mind­ed sup­port­ers that Prime Min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning had dis­missed the threat on her life. "The prospect of this be­ing a planned event is too dan­ger­ous to con­sid­er at this time, when tak­en on the con­text that our Prime Min­is­ter ca­su­al­ly dis­missed the threat on my life, say­ing it was a hoax and this was even be­fore the po­lice con­duct­ed in­ves­ti­ga­tions," she said.

Mean­while, at a PNM po­lit­i­cal meet­ing in Ma­yaro last night, Man­ning said if the in­ci­dent was re­al, then the PNM con­demned it in the strongest way. "The PNM is not about that... If the threat is re­al, then the PNM wish­es to con­demn it the strongest way," he said. Man­ning said he was wait­ing to hear what the po­lice had to say about the in­ci­dent.