SHAS­TRI BOODAN

UNC chair­man and Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er says the pub­lic is whole­heart­ed­ly sup­port­ing the Gov­ern­ment on giv­ing pow­ers of ar­rest to sol­diers while they are on joint pa­trols with po­lice. Warn­er said for the past decade po­lice and sol­diers had been go­ing on joint pa­trols and con­tin­ue to do so, and it was time for sup­port­ers of the Gov­ern­ment and its poli­cies to come out and talk.

Warn­er said for far too long the voic­es of the mi­nor­i­ty who op­posed the Gov­ern­ment for per­son­al rea­sons had been get­ting their views across while the ma­jor­i­ty stood silent. He was speak­ing with the T&T Guardian over the week­end when he at­tend­ed to con­stituents at his Ca­roni Sa­van­nah Road, Ch­agua­nas of­fices. Warn­er said he had been in­formed that there was a plan by those in op­po­si­tion to the Gov­ern­ment to stage mas­sive dis­rup­tions across the coun­try. He said as Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty he has in­for­ma­tion on where and when these meet­ings were tak­ing place and the names of the in­di­vid­u­als in­volved, and had al­ready giv­en this in­for­ma­tion to the po­lice.