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Wednesday, May 28, 2025

COP to Lucky: Probe CoP

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The Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) yes­ter­day is­sued a let­ter to the di­rec­tor of the Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty, Gillian Lucky, to in­ves­ti­gate Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Dwayne Gibbs on the po­lice raids on News­day and the home of re­porter An­dre Ba­goo. Chair­man of COP, for­mer na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ter Joseph Toney, de­liv­ered a let­ter to the PCA yes­ter­day morn­ing. That was the sec­ond ini­tia­tive of the COP, which is a mem­ber unit of the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship Gov­ern­ment, to have Gibbs ex­plain what COP po­lit­i­cal leader Prakash Ra­mad­har con­demned the po­lice ac­tion, say­ing it was an "atro­cious at­tack" on the me­dia.

About nine of­fi­cers from the An­ti-Cor­rup­tion In­ves­ti­ga­tion Bu­reau raid­ed the news­pa­per's of­fice and the home of its re­porter Ba­goo last Thurs­day. On Fri­day, Ra­mad­har gave Gibbs a 24-hour ul­ti­ma­tum to ex­plain the rea­sons for the raid. He said if Gibbs did not heed the call the par­ty had oth­er plans to have the mat­ter ad­dressed.

Yes­ter­day morn­ing, Toney de­liv­ered the let­ter to the PCA re­quest­ing that Lucky "in­ves­ti­gate the con­duct of the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice and or any of his of­fi­cers in this most mis­guid­ed ac­tion against the free press in our coun­try." Speak­ing at a news con­fer­ence at the par­ty's Port-of- Spain of­fice, Toney said the po­lice ac­tion was a "most dis­taste­ful at­tack on the me­dia."

Com­ment­ing on Gibbs state­ment, which was pub­lished in the press yes­ter­day, Toney said it was "most in­ad­e­quate." He said the in­ves­ti­ga­tion was "more than nec­es­sary," based on Gibbs' re­port­ed state­ment in the press. Gibbs said the po­lice were search­ing for ev­i­dence. Toney said the na­tion would like to know what was the al­leged crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty com­mit­ted by News­day and Ba­goo. "That seems to be the miss­ing piece in this jig­saw puz­zle of the raid of the po­lice at News­day and at the home of Mr Ba­goo," Toney in­sist­ed. "What crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty is News­day (and) Mr Ba­goo en­gaged in that re­quires the po­lice to search for ev­i­dence?" Toney asked.


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