Attorney General Anand Ramlogan yesterday declined to confirm a claim that he is pursuing "a civil suit" against former prime minister Patrick Manning and ex-Udecott head Calder Hart. Ramlogan was contacted on the claim in a newspaper, but said he preferred "not to comment until I've seen the article."
PNM officials dismissed the claim, saying the Government was trying to divert attention from the Jack Warner issue. "It has always been the PP's habit when the PP is facing its own trouble to say they going after Manning and Hart or that police or Interpol is interviewing some one of them," they added. PNM San Fernando East member Jeff Chandler, at yesterday's PNM Family Day, said: "The last time they moved on the MP, we marched from the Parliament to San Fernando, so if they move on him again, we might have to march back up to the AG's office."
PNM leader Keith Rowley and other senior officials at PNM's Family Day at Manzanilla declined comment. Meanwhile, National Security Minister Subhas Panday said he was contacting National Security Minister John Sandy on a report that a state board chairman was assisting police with a $2 million marijuana haul at Pt Lisas. "It's the first I'm hearing of it, I'll ask Mr Sandy about it... If it is a police investigation, it would be improper for us to interfere," Panday said. Panday said it would be improper and unfair to say that the person under probe was the Prime Minister's preferred choice for that particular state board helm. He said a state board committee makes appointments. Works Minister Jack Warner-under whose portfolio the State board falls-on the weekend distanced himself from the appointment issue.