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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

GML stakeout probe ongoing

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Deputy Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er in charge of crime Glenn Hack­ett says the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the mil­i­tary op­er­a­tion at the doorstep of the Guardian Me­dia Ltd build­ing last Mon­day is on­go­ing. In a tele­phone in­ter­view yes­ter­day Hack­ett said: "There are is­sues which still need to be ironed out." He could not give a time­frame when that would be com­plet­ed. When con­tact­ed act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Stephen Williams al­so said in­ves­ti­ga­tions were con­tin­u­ing.

Last Mon­day sol­diers parked out­side the en­trance of the T&T Guardian and ven­tured in­to the car park ask­ing about a parked ve­hi­cle while a man they want­ed to ques­tion for the mur­der of Lance Cpl Kay­o­de Thomas was be­ing in­ter­viewed in­side the build­ing. Thomas, a fa­ther of eight, was shot dead on June 29 at Plai­sance Quar­ry Road, John John. The sus­pect, iden­ti­fied as Dil­lon "Bandy" Skeete, met with a T&T Guardian re­porter on Mon­day.

A se­ries of in­ci­dents took place short­ly be­fore the meet­ing.Armed sol­diers went to the Queen Street car park of the news­pa­per and ques­tioned the se­cu­ri­ty guard and an­oth­er mem­ber of staff about a parked red Maz­da car. As the in­ter­view was end­ing, around 3.10 pm, an uniden­ti­fied man tele­phoned the T&T Guardian op­er­a­tor and said there was a bomb in the build­ing and it would blow up if "you all don't ----ing come out." By then Skeete had left the build­ing. A se­nior sol­dier then tele­phoned an ed­i­tor say­ing he had heard a man who sol­diers were look­ing for was in the build­ing.

The build­ing was evac­u­at­ed for over two hours as po­lice searched it. News op­er­a­tions at the me­dia house was dis­rupt­ed. At a press con­fer­ence last week Williams as­sured that the mat­ter would be thor­ough­ly in­ves­ti­gat­ed. The is­sue al­so sparked con­cerns about sol­diers over­step­ping their bounds in Laven­tille. Williams in a press con­fer­ence last week said it was il­le­gal for sol­diers for go on pa­trols and on op­er­a­tions with­out the po­lice and in­struct­ed po­lice to ar­rest those in breach of the law. A spokesman from the Reg­i­ment's Mil­i­tary In­ves­ti­ga­tions Unit said there were sev­er­al re­ports made by civil­ians of beat­ings by sol­diers but these had to be prop­er­ly in­ves­ti­gat­ed.


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