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Saturday, August 23, 2025

Kamla on DSS probe:

I’m skeptical over PM’s move to bring foreign investigators

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Peter Christopher
1767 days ago
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Opposition Leader and UNC Political Leader, Kamla Persad-Bissessar SC MP, during the UNC Virtual Report on Monday 19 October 2020. (Image courtesy United National Congress)

Opposition Leader and UNC Political Leader, Kamla Persad-Bissessar SC MP, during the UNC Virtual Report on Monday 19 October 2020. (Image courtesy United National Congress)

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is skep­ti­cal about the Prime Min­is­ter’s call for for­eign in­ves­ti­ga­tors to probe the Drugs Sou Sou mat­ter.

She made the com­ment while ad­dress­ing the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress Vir­tu­al Re­port on Mon­day night.

Last week, dur­ing a town meet­ing in Bel­mont, Prime Min­is­ter Dr Row­ley an­nounced that in­ves­ti­ga­tors from the Unit­ed King­dom and Bar­ba­dos will come to T&T af­ter l four lo­cal of­fi­cers were sus­pend­ed with sev­er­al oth­ers be­ing trans­ferred fol­low­ing a probe in­to the re­cent seizure and re­turn of mil­lions dol­lars from the La Hor­quet­ta or­gan­i­sa­tion.

The Op­po­si­tion Leader was be­mused by this turn of events, as she point­ed to the ab­sence of for­eign in­volve­ment in the Au­gust gen­er­al elec­tion.

“This is the man who could not af­ford to bring elec­tion ob­servers, could not af­ford to open the bor­ders to bring in elec­tion, open the bor­ders, he didn’t have mon­ey. But this is the same man want to spend mon­ey now about DSS or some­thing,” said Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

But the Op­po­si­tion Leader’s reser­va­tions did not end there, as she asked if any­thing would come out of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion if the Gov­ern­ment  gets in­volved.

“Be­fore he didn’t agree, now he agrees to send the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice some­where and then he takes over the in­ves­ti­ga­tion, Mooni­lal had spo­ken in the Par­lia­ment on the pri­va­tiz­ing of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, when it comes now what will hap­pen, what will hap­pen, the same thing will hap­pen with every re­port the Prime Min­is­ter has tak­en over. You re­mem­ber that he took over the Dar­ryl Smith mat­ter, up to to­day we have not seen that re­port,” said the Siparia MP.

The for­mer prime min­is­ter said she did not have much de­tails about the DSS mat­ter, but she would have no is­sue with in­di­vid­u­als ob­tain­ing mon­ey through le­gal means, how­ev­er she un­der­stood that sev­er­al se­nior of­fi­cials had been named in a re­port as be­ing in­volved.

Dur­ing last Thurs­day’s meet­ing , the Prime Min­is­ter had de­scribed the DSS as a can­cer which could would eat the soul of the na­tion as he an­nounced plans for the for­eign in­ves­ti­ga­tors.


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