Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er yes­ter­day tout­ed him­self as "the best" Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter, boast­ing he was the on­ly one who built so many roads and fixed so many bridges.Warn­er was ad­dress­ing mem­bers of law en­force­ment bod­ies at a recog­ni­tion and awards cer­e­mo­ny at the Min­istry's Aber­crom­by Street, Port-of-Spain, of­fices yes­ter­day.

He added: "I go on record that no min­is­ter be­fore me–I don't want any­body to say it for me–I will say it for my­self... but none has dis­played the en­er­gy and en­thu­si­asm and the will to get the work done as I have dis­played."As Min­is­ter of Works and In­fra­struc­ture, no min­is­ter has built more roads, bridges than me. When you see what was be­ing built by me in the short space of 14 months, you can un­der­stand the en­er­gy which I had and still have."

Warn­er added that the rea­son why he was moved to the Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­istry was to "trans­port" that same en­er­gy to fight crime."Come hell or high wa­ter we shall get the work done and we shall bring down crime. You shall be able to do win­dow-shop­ping which is a lost art and to hold hands and walk the streets as they did long time," Warn­er said.

He said he vis­it­ed Staubles Bay, Ch­aguara­mas, and the con­di­tions un­der which mem­bers of the T&T Coast Guard op­er­at­ed were less than com­fort­able."I have gone down to Tetron and saw for my­self where even cor­beaux refuse to live. In spite of all of this, these of­fi­cers in the var­i­ous units con­tin­ue to pro­tect and serve."

Sta­tis­tics

Nar­cotics seized:

Year To­tal

Jan - March 2012 $21,998,400

Jan - March 2013 $48,725,200

To­tal il­le­gal firearms­found and seized:

Pe­ri­od Num­ber

Jan­u­ary to March 2012 119

Jan­u­ary to March 2013 99