Richard Lord

Op­po­si­tion Leader Dr Kei­th Row­ley says he sup­ports the ap­point­ment of busi­ness­man Ken­neth Gor­don as the new chair­man of the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion.He said he was con­fi­dent Gor­don would do a good job."I have every con­fi­dence he will mea­sure up to the re­quire­ments of the as­sign­ment giv­en to him," Row­ley stressed.Gor­don as­sumes the new po­si­tion to­day.

Mean­while, the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion has writ­ten to Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Fitzger­ald Hinds say­ing he must pro­vide the ev­i­dence for any probe of Works and In­fra­struc­ture Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er.Hinds said the probe was with re­spect to al­leged wrong-do­ing in Warn­er's ca­pac­i­ty as a vice pres­i­dent of world foot­ball gov­ern­ing body, FI­FA.He said that dur­ing a news con­fer­ence at the Of­fice of the Op­po­si­tion Leader, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day­Hinds gave the me­dia copies of the Oc­to­ber 18, 2011 let­ter, which said in part:

"The In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion had con­sid­ered the mat­ter and pro­pos­es to close same un­less you can pro­vide us, with­in 14 days of the re­ceipt of this re­quest, ev­i­dence/in­for­ma­tion in or­der to sup­port an in­ves­ti­ga­tion."Hinds said he would be re­spond­ing to the com­mis­sion, seek­ing clar­i­fi­ca­tion of the let­ter's con­tents. He said the ev­i­dence was in the pub­lic do­main and the com­mis­sion had the re­sources to avail it­self of it. (RL)