Why do we con­tin­ue to ac­cept medi­oc­rity here in Trinidad and To­ba­go-its wrong.And of all places-our na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty and safe­ty. Here we have re­cent­ly ap­point­ed Spy di­rec­tor Colonel Grif­fith-SSA/SIA/NSA-say­ing that Julie Brown-a deputy di­rec­tor of the snoop group-has been cleared of any wrong do­ing-in the Resh­mie Ram­nar­ine af­fair.Oh re­al­ly Sir! So Julie was duped by Resh­mie eh. A tech­ni­cian I fooled a deputy di­rec­tor.Could you imag­ine what a halfway de­cent op­er­a­tive would be able to ac­com­plish?You are say­ing sir-that a deputy di­rec­tor of our pre­miere se­cu­ri­ty agency-did not do ba­sic checks to ver­i­fy Ms Ram­nar­ines' ed­u­ca­tion­al qual­i­fi­ca­tions and thus it is not her fault?

That is at least care­less­ness in my book-Julie Brown must go-now. You are de­fend­ing care­less­ness? You ought not to be care­less with our na­tions se­cu­ri­ty.Then am I to be­lieve that the on­ly rea­son Ab­dul Mal­ick and Dole Chadee and Steve Khan are not work­ing for the Spy agency are be­cause the first two are de­ceased and the lat­ter in ah Yan­kee jail. You think Mossad or MI5 or KGB would ac­cept that lev­el of care­less­ness. No.To com­pound mat­ters you are al­so say­ing you stand be­hind Ms Brown-well hear this-you too ought to be fired forth­with. You are a non-stater-in this crick­et sea­son.

T Clay Su­cre

Long­denville