The To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) soon may be work­ing close­ly with the po­lice Cy­ber Crime Unit af­ter an im­age of To­ba­go PNM leader Orville Lon­don ap­peared on a Web site show­ing him dressed as a pi­rate and hold­ing two mon­ey­bags. The site al­so said Lon­don "ain't got no time for To­ba­go. No school, no am­bu­lance, no gas sta­tion, no help."

Con­tact­ed yes­ter­day, Alvin Pas­call, the THA's se­nior coun­sel, said if it was a def­i­nite case of li­bel then the le­gal team would ex­am­ine its op­tions. He said the mat­ter had not been brought to his at­ten­tion and he could not say when or if the THA's le­gal team would be dis­cussing it. He said dur­ing elec­tion sea­son all sorts of al­le­ga­tions were lev­elled against peo­ple in pub­lic of­fice.

How­ev­er, Pas­call said he was the se­nior at­tor­ney to for­mer prime min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning and oth­er for­mer gov­ern­ment min­is­ters like Colm Im­bert and Ken Val­ley and nev­er ad­vised them to bring a law­suit against any­body. "When the mat­ter comes to my at­ten­tion I imag­ine we would look at what our op­tions are, but in mat­ters in­volv­ing li­bel there is no lim­i­ta­tion pe­ri­od," Pas­call added.

Lon­don, who al­so crit­i­cised the Web site, de­scribed it as an at­tack on the coun­try's democ­ra­cy. He said he was un­aware who cre­at­ed the site but vowed to get to the bot­tom of it. "I am go­ing to have this in­ves­ti­gat­ed both from a tech­ni­cal and le­gal per­spec­tive. If ac­tions have to be tak­en I would def­i­nite­ly take the ac­tion," Lon­don had said.