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“[…] We now have the triumvirate or the three-headed Hydra of Gary Griffith, Jack Warner and Kamla Persad-Bissessar. One was police commissioner whose response to the beating death of an accused in custody while he was commissioner was: ‘he fell off a chair’.
“[…] The other (a one-time acting prime minister, as well as a former minister of national security and transportation), is one of several officials indicted by the United States Department of Justice in 2015 on charges of corruption, money laundering, and racketeering…”
The following Letter to the Editor on the new partnership between UNC political leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar, ILP founder Jack Warner and NTA leader Gary Griffith was submitted to Wired868 by Orson Rogers of Belmont:
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On the road to Local Government elections, we now have the triumvirate or the three headed Hydra of Gary Griffith, Jack Warner and Kamla Persad-Bissessar.
One was police commissioner whose response to the beating death of an accused in custody while he was commissioner was: “he fell off a chair”. I believe this incident is still under investigation by the Police Complaints Authority, and he delights in calling persons “cockroaches”.
The other (a one-time acting prime minister, as well as a former minister of national security and transportation), is one of several officials indicted by the United States Department of Justice in 2015 on charges of corruption, money laundering, and racketeering.
These charges are related to his alleged involvement in corrupt practices within football (Fifa) governance. The United States has requested Warner’s extradition from Trinidad and Tobago to face the aforementioned charges, but he has refused to appear in the US to prove his “innocence”.
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The third has been the central figure in the appointment scandal of Reshmi Ramnarine (now Shashi Rehka) to the SSA, to Section 34’s amended clause (“A judge shall on an application by the accused, discharge the accused and record a verdict of not guilty if the offence is alleged to have been committed on a date that is ten years or more before the date of the application.”), to Cambridge Analytica and on and on and on…
Birds of a feather is an idiom that means people who share similar characteristics or interests tend to associate with one another. When applied to corruption, it implies that individuals involved in corrupt activities often tend to associate with and support each other due to their shared willingness to engage in dishonest or unethical behaviour.
We can now expect this network of individuals with such sterling character to perpetuate corruption and undermine the principles of fairness, integrity, and transparency.
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You can’t be affraid of these fine upstanding citizens whose only crime is wanting to serve the poor and down trodden of TNT. Surely you are not thinking that they are attempting to use these naive, unsuspecting souls as human shields in their attempts to escape pending matters or those that may arise against them in the future.
I am sorry for the political choices we have in TnT. Just exchange with no change
Just in case you didn’t know? ALL politicians are crooked!! Especially in Trinidad where politicians divide
The island !! And also there is no accountability.
Truly a banana republic. Away from politics and crime, ( both go hand in hand) its truly a beautiful place with warm friendly people.
And we seem to be attracting them in droves. What does that say about us as a people and our tolerance (by the way they will appreciate your attempt to lumped all and sundry together i.e. giving corruption and the really corrupt ones a pass literally) for that type of misbehaviour. A big cop out I think.