Gail Alexan­der

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress leader Ka­mala Per­sad-Bisses­sar last night raised fresh ques­tions to Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment fornt­lin­er Fos­ter Cum­mings.

Speak­ing dur­ing last night's UNC week­ly Mon­day meet­ing, she called on Cum­ming to an­swer ques­tions on al­leged fresh in­for­ma­tion, in­clud­ing about cer­tain ques­tion­able Cou­va char­ac­ters.

Cit­ing the re­port­ed 2019 T&T Po­lice Ser­vice Spe­cial Branch re­port in­to Cum­mings' ac­tiv­i­ties, Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­peat­ed part of the Spe­cial Branch's al­le­ga­tion on two com­pa­nies Cum­mings is al­leged­ly linked with.

She said it’s al­leged a man named in the re­port - al­leged­ly the head of the Rail­way Road gang – was em­ployed as a sub-con­trac­tor by both com­pa­nies for sev­er­al sites in Cou­va. She said it’s al­so al­leged the per­son is a re­put­ed drug deal­er.

“Are these things true Fos­ter? I call up­on you to an­swer.”

She asked if it’s true the per­son al­leged­ly runs a brisk co­caine, guns and am­mu­ni­tion trade and if al­le­ga­tions are true, the man is in charge of sev­er­al gangs in Cou­va and Pt Lisas.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar asked if al­le­ga­tions are al­so true that some of that busi­ness is trans­act­ed through a (named) Cou­va club.

An­oth­er al­le­ga­tion is that the per­son is sent as en­forcer to ac­quire state lands. She asked if this was true. She al­leged that cur­rent land oc­cu­piers are giv­en pep­per­corn rates to va­cate lands and suf­fer thug­gery and ha­rass­ment if they refuse.

She called for an­swers on al­le­ga­tions that the man she re­ferred to used a Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment ve­hi­cle with blue lights to trans­port guns and am­mu­ni­tion to buy­ers.

"Is that true?" she asked.

She al­so asked if it was true about an­oth­er man (ini­tial B.S.) em­ployed by the Cou­va cor­po­ra­tion and who dri­ves the Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment ve­hi­cle and "de­liv­ers;" and about an an­oth­er (named) al­leged "sub-con­trac­tor."

Per­sad-Bisses­sar said it’s al­leged no TTPS mem­ber in the Cou­va Po­lice Sta­tion can al­so touch a cer­tain high per­son at risk of be­ing trans­ferred and that raids on one gang aren’t suc­cess­ful, as they’re tipped off. She said it was un­fath­omable that giv­en all the al­le­ga­tions, Cum­mings can still be hold­ing his po­si­tion with­out ex­pla­na­tions.

She said the Prime Min­is­ter didn’t care that one of his min­is­ters was un­der in­ves­ti­ga­tions. She said the PM had the Spe­cial Branch re­port on Cum­mings since 2019.

“Cap­tain (Gary) Grif­fith said he gave the re­port to the Prime Min­is­ter… he had it - he can’t plead ig­no­rance," she said.

“What did you do with it?... you pro­mot­ed (Cum­mings) from Sen­a­tor to make him an MP, elect­ed by the peo­ple and a min­is­ter.

"Now (Prime Min­is­ter Kei­th) Row­ley get ‘pip’ (can’t speak), we’re not hear­ing a word from him. So many crises in T&T and not a word from this man.”

Slam­ming Gov­ern­ment for the crime rate and over 3,000 mur­ders, she cit­ed a 2012 state­ment Row­ley made – that if the gov­ern­ment can­not deal with crime then the gov­ern­ment it­self is part of the prob­lem.

“You had sev­en years, so you and your min­is­ters are part of the prob­lem - you can­not solve it.”

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