Gail Alexan­der

Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er did not de­liv­er his promised re­port on the al­leged re­vival of the Fly­ing Squad in Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day as he had said. Warn­er had said he would re­port to the Par­lia­ment on the is­sue yes­ter­day.

But yes­ter­day morn­ing, a min­istry spokesman said Warn­er would not ad­dress Par­lia­ment but would in­stead de­liv­er a re­port on the is­sue to the Prime Min­is­ter first, as she had re­quest­ed on her re­turn to T&T on Thurs­day. That night, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar had said she want­ed the re­port be­fore Warn­er made the state­ment in Par­lia­ment.

Warn­er re­port­ed to Cab­i­net on the is­sue on Thurs­day, of­fi­cials had said. Yes­ter­day, be­fore meet­ing THA Chief Sec­re­tary Orville Lon­don at 3pm, Per­sad-Bisses­sar met with heads of the pro­tec­tive ser­vices. That meet­ing was sched­uled for 2.15 pm. The PM came to the Par­lia­ment Cham­ber first and chat­ted with Warn­er and oth­er MPs close by be­fore head­ing to the pro­tec­tive ser­vices meet­ing at 2.14 pm.

Warn­er did not ac­com­pa­ny her but left the cham­ber at 2.18 pm and was sub­se­quent­ly re­port­ed to be at the meet­ing. Fyz­abad MP Chan­dresh Shar­ma was not in Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day af­ter­noon to re­spond to re­porters' queries on re­ports Pres­i­dent-elect An­tho­ny Car­mona was un­hap­py over ban­ners bear­ing pic­tures of him­self and Shar­ma mount­ed out­side the MP's con­stituen­cy of­fice.

Shar­ma didn't an­swer calls ei­ther. The Of­fice of the Pres­i­dent said it had no di­rec­tive to re­spond on the is­sue.