If you don’t act you will face the full brunt of the law, a warn­ing to the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) Pres­i­dent Wat­son Duke from the Head of the Con­cerned Pub­lic Of­fi­cers, Cur­tis Cuffie.

This comes af­ter a high court rul­ing by Jus­tice Devin­dra Ram­per­sad that the PSA Pres­i­dent and his ex­ec­u­tive must hold time­ly au­dit of its fi­nances.

The 18-page judg­ment stat­ed that the court is “sat­is­fied there is suf­fi­cient ev­i­dence con­cern­ing the un­law­ful ex­pen­di­ture.”

He added the court was al­so sat­is­fied with ar­gu­ments as it re­lates to the fail­ure by the ex­ec­u­tive to hold sec­tion elec­tions and pro­vide prop­er­ly au­dit­ed ac­counts.

So that prop­er pro­ce­dures are fol­lowed, for ap­proval of ex­pen­di­ture, the judge said it means the PSA has to have the prop­er an­nu­al gen­er­al con­fer­ence.

He al­so said the hold­ing of “all sec­tion” elec­tions must take place by Feb­ru­ary 14, and prop­er, time­ly au­dits of the union’s ac­counts, con­duct­ed with­in a rea­son­able pe­ri­od of be­com­ing due and on com­ple­tion of the pre­vi­ous year’s au­dit, to de­ter­mine the state of the fi­nances which will as­sist in de­ter­min­ing the ac­tu­al num­ber of fi­nan­cial mem­bers.

Duke told the Trinidad Guardian dur­ing a press con­fer­ence, “There are some mis­cre­ants al­so in the PSA, I called the name of two of them, Solomon Gabriel and Cur­tis Cuffy, so when I picked up the pa­pers to­day and I read this, I want to know if the News­day has run out of sto­ries or is the News­day has noth­ing to print”.

Duke added, there are more im­por­tant things like crime to fo­cus on and salary ne­go­ti­a­tions.

“I am the on­ly per­son who’s named in this court mat­ter, Wat­son Duke but I will tell you, who the oth­ers per­sons are, in that mat­ter, it’s a mat­ter in the high court be­tween Cur­tis Cuffie, the broth­er of gov­ern­ment min­is­ter Maxi Cuffie both of them full of sto­ries.”

Duke went on to show im­ages from his phone of the Min­ster Cuffie with Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley along with im­ages of Cur­tis Cuffie on the steps of the Hall of Jus­tice.

Duke claimed that the lawyers rep­re­sent­ing Cuffie may al­so be aligned to the Gov­ern­ment.

The PSA Pres­i­dent said he have more to say about the judg­ment in due course.

Re­spond­ing to Duke, Head of Con­cerned Pub­lic Of­fi­cer, Cur­tis Cuffie said,

“The thing about this non-sense about PNM and who is PNM, Devin­dra Ram­per­sad is the judge prob­a­bly he must be PNM too be­cause he gave the judg­ment.”

He added, “The mat­ter was so com­pre­hen­sive­ly done Duke did not file a de­fence in the mat­ter, the case went to court as an un­de­fend­ed claim, we got a judg­ment in de­fault, he nev­er file a de­fence in the mat­ter but what we are go­ing to do is to get the judg­ment en­forced and if he is say­ing that the court can­not do it, well, there are laws in this coun­try, he is not above the law and we will just use the full ex­tent of the law in this mat­ter.”