Gail Alexan­der

"Po­lice Ser­vice Com­mis­sion have some shame - re­sign now and let new peo­ple deal with the ap­point­ment of a po­lice com­mis­sion­er."

That's the call from Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad- Bisses­sar who's called for an­swers on whether the PNM gov­ern­ment is work­ing be­hind the scenes through the in­de­pen­dent EBC to get act­ing CoP Gary Grif­fith out.

"I don't have ev­i­dence but some­thing is very very wrong..it is clear there is po­lit­i­cal in­ter­fer­ence in this sit­u­a­tion re­gard­ing an ap­point­ment of a CoP," Per­sad-Bisses­sar said at last night's UNC fo­rum.

She not­ed no soon­er than Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds spoke on the CoP's leave is­sue last Fri­day the PSC im­me­di­ate­ly sent Grif­fith sus­pen­sion of du­ty no­tice.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar al­so ac­cused the PSC and Pres­i­dent Paula Mae Weekes of act­ing un­con­sti­tu­tion­al­ly in the is­sue to the pub­lic's detri­ment.

Call­ing out PSC mem­bers by name - chair­man Bliss Seep­er­sad Court­ney Mc­Nish Roger Kawals­ingh, Dr Su­san Craig James - and Weekes al­so, Per­sad Bisses­sar de­mand­ed if PSC sent the Pres­i­dent a mer­it list on the Act­ing CoP ap­point­ment since one had to be done for that post as well as for that of Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er

She said it is al­leged the Pres­i­dent did get a mer­it list in Au­gust for the act­ing CoP post - but Per­sad - Bisses­sar asked why the Pres­i­dent didn't send the no­ti­fi­ca­tion to Par­lia­ment for ap­proval as need­ed.

"Did the Pres­i­dent col­lude with PSC chair­man Seep­er­sad?? Now we have two act­ing peo­ple and a con­sti­tu­tion­al cri­sis has arisen cre­at­ed by the Bliss Seep­er­sad Com­mis­sion. Did the PSC act un­law­ful­ly in send­ing that let­ter of act­ing ap­point­ment....you don't have that au­thor­i­ty, on­ly the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives can ap­prove it."

"Tell us if you are be­ing giv­en in­struc­tions by politi­cians. How can the PSC con­duct busi­ness in such a bizarre way?!".

"PSC must re­sign now, they have made a mock­ery and pap­pyshow out of the Com­mis­sion' s work and made TT a laugh­ing­stock more than (Health Min­is­ter) Ter­rence Deyals­ingh in the (Nick­ie Mi­naj is­sue) did ..."

Per­sad-Bisses­sar said she holds no brief for Grif­fith who she added seems to think there's a move to get him out. But not­ing a spate of re­cent mur­ders she said one could say what one want­ed about Grif­fith but he was al­ways out work­ing.

"So it's gua­va sea­son for Gary and TTPS, gua­va sea­son for cit­i­zens on prop­er­ty tax, NGC is­sues.."

Per­sad-Bisses­sar al­so said since the Prime Min­is­ter is now in iso­la­tion and one Min­is­ter has COVID-19, MPs de­serve an­swers from the Chief Med­ical Of­fi­cer if both had en­dan­gered oth­er MPs who were in Par­lia­ment last week which the PM at­tend­ed.