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Monday, July 7, 2025

Pas­tor Ian Brown of­fend­ed by cult claims:

This is an attack on Christians

by

358 days ago
20240714

Asha Javeed

Lead Ed­i­tor In­ves­ti­ga­tions

asha.javeed@guardian.co.tt

“We are not a cult.”

That’s the def­i­nite state­ment from Pas­tor Pas­tor Ian Al­bert Ezekiel Brown, the self-pro­claimed spy who was once em­ployed at the coun­try’s Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency (SSA) and is the prin­ci­pal of the Jerusalem Bride (JB church) in Ari­ma.

Brown took of­fence to the “cult” la­bel and sug­gest­ed that the coun­try’s par­lia­men­tar­i­ans “look at Jim Jones and those oth­er types of mad peo­ple.”

His state­ment to the me­dia came ten days af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley read in­to Hansard a state­ment on the find­ings of an au­dit con­duct­ed on the SSA by di­rec­tor Brigadier An­tho­ny Phillips-Spencer. The au­dit re­vealed that the SSA un­der for­mer di­rec­tor Roger Best amassed mil­i­tary-grade weapons and am­mu­ni­tion, and op­er­at­ed a high­ly trained and mil­i­tarised so-called Tac­ti­cal Re­sponse Unit. It al­so found there were dis­turb­ing prac­tices of nepo­tism and op­por­tunism lead­ing to a con­cen­tra­tion of mem­bers of one church be­ing hired by the SSA, in­stances of dis­hon­esty and deep de­cep­tion and the SSA was in­creas­ing­ly in­ca­pable of se­cur­ing pub­lic trust.

“Such per­sons be­longed to a cult which was arm­ing it­self while preach­ing a doc­trine for trained mil­i­tary and para­mil­i­tary per­son­nel with a re­li­gious call­ing to be the most suit­able per­sons to re­place the coun­try’s po­lit­i­cal lead­er­ship. They were ex­ert­ing high lev­els of in­flu­ence on the af­fairs of the agency to the detri­ment of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty,” Dr Row­ley said.

“It is the ab­solute fact that we were nev­er a cult, we are not a cult, and we re­sent the fact that we are be­ing so-called. WE WILL NEV­ER BE A CULT!!!! I know ful­ly well what a cult is, and what they are ca­pa­ble of, and I do de­spise them all,” Brown said in a state­ment to the me­dia yes­ter­day.

He said he was “con­strained to do some writ­ing at this junc­ture, to make cer­tain of the fact that “si­lence does not mean con­sent.”’

“Tru­ly, many lines have been over­stepped by the choos­ing of cer­tain in­di­vid­u­als in the hi­er­ar­chy of the pol­i­cy and pol­i­tics of the stage now oc­cu­pied by this present Gov­ern­ment.

“How des­per­ate can any po­lit­i­cal group be to prove that a cer­tain Bish­op of a le­git­i­mate Full Gospel or­ga­ni­za­tion, has es­tab­lished a cult group, and this so, at the helm of a Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty agency in Trinidad and To­ba­go? This blas­phe­mous ac­tion can even­tu­al­ly cause this pro­pa­gan­da, to be the cat­a­lyst for our na­tion (or at the least, this Gov­ern­ment), to be brand­ed as hav­ing the cra­zi­est na­tion­al lead­er­ship since time be­gan.

“I was care­ful to no­tice that on­ly “Chris­t­ian peo­ple” were fired re­cent­ly from the now in­fa­mous SSA. I have been told that those fired were from Bap­tist to Catholic (and every­thing in be­tween). No Hin­dus, Mus­lims or any oth­er cat­e­go­ry of re­li­gion was tar­get­ed,” Brown said.

“This Trinidad and To­ba­go is not Chi­na or Rus­sia. Why have you peo­ple at­tacked our Chris­t­ian com­mu­ni­ty?”

Fol­low­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the SSA, Brown, along with two for­mer SSA em­ploy­ees, Sgt Sher­win Wal­dron and Su­san Portell-Grif­fith, have been charged with “trans­fer­ring” four “pro­hib­it­ed firearms” from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) to the SSA.

How­ev­er, while po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue, no oth­er charges have been laid against for­mer SSA em­ploy­ees.

For­mer di­rec­tor Roger Best was de­tained, ques­tioned and sub­se­quent­ly re­leased as there was no ev­i­dence to charge him with mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice.

Last week, Best told the Sun­day Guardian that the claims of a coup plot are “not on­ly pre­pos­ter­ous but lu­di­crous.”

Jerusalem Bride Church

Brown de­scribed the State’s ac­tions against the SSA as an at­tack against “Chris­tians who love right­eous­ness, and choose to be pup­pets to ab­solute­ly no one.”

“If the na­tion has not as yet seen this blas­phe­my for what it ac­tu­al­ly is: this is an at­tack against THE CHURCH OF JE­SUS CHRIST!!!” We at the Jerusalem Bride Church still help re­store bro­ken homes and mar­riages and are not the agents of di­vi­sions or sedi­tions.

“We still help the poor and needy. We as­sist chil­dren’s homes in sev­er­al ways. We as­sist our com­mu­ni­ty in what­ev­er way we can. Our lifestyle and fruit of char­ac­ter in our com­mu­ni­ty are em­braced by those who know us in truth. We are in­tol­er­ant to di­vi­sive­ness and the prop­a­ga­tion of dishar­mo­ny,” he said.

He said that in the JB church they em­pha­size in their preach­ing that “sal­va­tion through the Cross and the Blood of Je­sus Christ, The King­dom of God that Je­sus spoke about in “The OUR FA­THER Prayer”, Heav­en and Hell, The Sec­ond re­turn of Je­sus, and the Rap­ture, Right­eous­ness, Love, Ho­li­ness, God­li­ness, Pu­ri­ty, Wor­ship, Prayer, Fel­low­ship, For­give­ness to every­one, In­tegri­ty, Long­suf­fer­ing, Pa­tience, Tem­per­ance, Jus­tice, Faith, Mer­cy and Truth.”

Con­verse­ly, he added, the JB church preach­es “against the sins writ­ten in the Ten Com­mand­ments, and al­so hate, re­venge, lust­ing, world­li­ness, here­sies, schisms, adul­tery, for­ni­ca­tion, drunk­en­ness, witch­craft, whore­mon­gery and rev­el­ry And al­so, against every­thing that Je­sus told us to not do, as found writ­ten in the Bible.

“I have kept my­self from all of the com­mon vices. No drink­ing, smok­ing, sex­u­al vices, nev­er once have I even touched mar­i­jua­na or il­le­gal drugs. Be­sides these things, I have nev­er com­mit­ted ei­ther for­ni­ca­tion or adul­tery since I was born and this is true up to this very day,” he said.

Brown said at 24, he did part-time Bible school evening class­es for two years, from 1981 to 1983, at the West In­dies School of The­ol­o­gy be­fore go­ing on to the full-time pro­gramme from 1984 to 1987. He then pur­sued a de­gree pro­gramme at the Caribbean Mis­sion Bible School from 1990 to 1993.

“I was made a pas­tor (by the Pen­te­costal As­sem­bles of the West In­dies), of a Church in Pin­to Road, Ari­ma, in 1986, while I was still at­tend­ing Bible School in that or­ga­ni­za­tion. I pa­s­tored that church for eight years,” he said.

Brown said he was made a pas­tor at four dif­fer­ent church­es which all still ex­ist to­day.

“I still hold on rigid­ly to the in­tegri­ty of their Bib­li­cal be­liefs. I have been a faith­ful hus­band to my “still the same” lov­ing wife San­di since 1979. We have two bi­o­log­i­cal boy chil­dren (The first was born in 1984),” he said.

Brown said he has al­so been a singer/song­writer and an au­thor of 12 books, eight of which can be found on­line at Ama­zon.

“I am al­so the in­ven­tor of three Bible-based board games. I hold US patents for two of them. In ad­di­tion, I have been a trav­el­ling evan­ge­list since 1987. I have held min­is­te­r­i­al cre­den­tials with the fol­low­ing Chris­t­ian or­ga­ni­za­tions thus far - the Pen­te­costal As­sem­blies of The West In­dies (PAWI), the Full Gospel As­so­ci­a­tion Of Trinidad and To­ba­go, Kingsway Fel­low­ship In­ter­na­tion­al of Des Moines, Iowa, Con­gress WBN ((In­ter­na­tion­al), The Taber­na­cle of Praise For All Na­tions (In­ter­na­tion­al), Faith As­sem­bly In­ter­na­tion­al and the As­so­ci­a­tion Of In­de­pen­dent Min­is­ters (AIM).”

Pas­tor and SSA en­twined

Best is a pas­tor at the Jerusalem Bride where the ser­mons fo­cus on dooms­day-like is­sues.

As the SSA scan­dal un­fold­ed, Best took a back­seat in ad­dress­ing al­le­ga­tions that were levied against him and the agency and in re­sponse to ques­tions from the Sun­day Guardian over the past sev­er­al months, he would re­spond with Bible pas­sages.

So how did the pas­tor of a church get hired as an ad­vi­sor to the di­rec­tor of the coun­try’s in­tel­li­gence agency?

Re­li­gious lead­ers were tar­get­ed by the SSA be­cause of their ac­cess to com­mu­ni­ties, to source in­for­ma­tion - from pun­dits to priests to imams. That’s how Pas­tor Brown got in­to the in­for­ma­tion-shar­ing busi­ness.

He start­ed off earn­ing small sums from the now-dis­band­ed Spe­cial An­ti-Crime Unit of T&T un­der Brigadier Pe­ter Joseph. At that time, he said he was a con­trac­tor. In­for­ma­tion ob­tained sug­gests he owns Mam­moth Con­tract­ing- but had his ear on the ground which proved use­ful.

For years, he was paid $10,000 by the SSA for in­for­ma­tion but last year he was for­mal­ly em­ployed as Best’s ad­vi­sor for $25,000 a month.

He told Guardian Me­dia for­mer Air Guard cap­tain Kester Weekes (who has been re­called from DC), is a mem­ber of his church who in­tro­duced Best to him by bring­ing him to church. Brown de­scribed Best as a “born-again” Chris­t­ian who is a ve­hi­cle to do good work in the coun­try.

In that pe­ri­od of get­ting to know Best, Brown’s son was hired at the SSA. So im­pressed was Best with Brown that he would al­low him to sit in on high-lev­el meet­ings, trav­el with him (they trav­elled to­geth­er to Is­rael last year) and al­lowed him to in­ter­face with in­ter­na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty coun­ter­parts.

Best al­so spent his spare time at the con­struc­tion fa­cil­i­ty of Brown’s church.

Last week, Guardian Me­dia re­port­ed that for­mer SSA agents, in­clud­ing Best and for­mer di­rec­tor of ad­min­is­tra­tion Joanne Daniel, are gear­ing up to sue the State.

Among the in­ves­ti­ga­tions are mur­ders linked to the agency through the Tac­ti­cal Unit es­tab­lished by Best.

The Sun­day Guardian re­port­ed last week that three mur­ders—the 2019 mur­ders of Bryan Fe­lix and Aleem Khan, whose bod­ies were found in a forest­ed part of Cu­mu­to on Oc­to­ber 13, 2019, and CCTV cam­era con­trac­tor Andy Daniel—were linked to the SSA probe.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors are re­port­ed­ly look­ing at the sim­i­lar­i­ty in pat­terns be­tween the mur­ders of Daniel and al­leged gang­ster An­thon “Bom­bay” Boney in Sep­tem­ber 2021.

SSA Time­line (Put In Box)

On March 2, in a Face­book post, the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter is­sued a state­ment which said that the di­rec­tor of the SSA, Ma­jor Roger Best had been sent on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave and T&T Am­bas­sador to the US, Philips-Spencer ap­point­ed act­ing di­rec­tor.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley said Best was sent on leave based on trou­bling in­for­ma­tion pro­vid­ed to the Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil (NSC) by the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS). He said the in­for­ma­tion war­rant­ed dras­tic in­ter­ven­tion.

On March 11, in an in­ter­view with the Ex­press, Pas­tor Ian Al­bert Ezekiel Brown, came for­ward to claim he is a spy at the SSA be­cause his cov­er was blown when po­lice raid­ed his church on March 9. How­ev­er, Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that Brown is a con­sul­tant to Best at the agency.

Best is one of nine el­ders in Brown’s church.

Brown told Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day that if he had made him­self pub­lic in the me­dia, the mem­bers of his church who are of­fi­cers would have been fired.

One of the peo­ple he claims is on the fir­ing line is his son, who was em­ployed at the agency be­fore him.“We are not a cult.”

That’s the def­i­nite state­ment from Pas­tor Pas­tor Ian Al­bert Ezekiel Brown, the self-pro­claimed spy who was once em­ployed at the coun­try’s Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency (SSA) and is the prin­ci­pal of the Jerusalem Bride (JB church) in Ari­ma.

Brown took of­fence to the “cult” la­bel and sug­gest­ed that the coun­try’s par­lia­men­tar­i­ans “look at Jim Jones, and those oth­er types of mad peo­ple.”

His state­ment to the me­dia came ten days af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley read in­to Hansard a state­ment on the find­ings of an au­dit con­duct­ed on the SSA by di­rec­tor Brigadier An­tho­ny Phillips-Spencer. The au­dit re­vealed that the SSA un­der for­mer di­rec­tor Roger Best amassed mil­i­tary grade weapons and am­mu­ni­tion, op­er­at­ed a high­ly trained and mil­i­tarised so-called Tac­ti­cal Re­sponse Unit. It al­so found there were dis­turb­ing prac­tices of nepo­tism and op­por­tunism lead­ing to a con­cen­tra­tion of mem­bers of one church be­ing hired by the SSA, in­stances of dis­hon­esty and deep de­cep­tion and the SSA was in­creas­ing­ly in­ca­pable of se­cur­ing pub­lic trust.

“Such per­sons be­longed to a cult which was arm­ing it­self while preach­ing a doc­trine for trained mil­i­tary and para­mil­i­tary per­son­nel with a re­li­gious call­ing to be the most suit­able per­sons to re­place the coun­try’s po­lit­i­cal lead­er­ship. They were ex­ert­ing high lev­els of in­flu­ence on the af­fairs of the agency to the detri­ment of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty,” Dr Row­ley said.

“It is the ab­solute fact that we were nev­er a cult, we are not a cult, and we re­sent the fact that we are be­ing so called. WE WILL NEV­ER BE A CULT!!!! I know ful­ly well what a cult is, and what they are ca­pa­ble of, and I do de­spise them all,” Brown said in a state­ment to the me­dia yes­ter­day.

He said he was “con­strained to do some writ­ing at this junc­ture, to make cer­tain of the fact that “si­lence does not mean con­sen.”’

“Tru­ly, many lines have been over­stepped by the choos­ing of cer­tain in­di­vid­u­als in the hi­er­ar­chy of the pol­i­cy and pol­i­tics of the stage now oc­cu­pied by this present Gov­ern­ment.

“How des­per­ate can any po­lit­i­cal group be to prove that a cer­tain Bish­op of a le­git­i­mate Full Gospel or­ga­ni­za­tion, has es­tab­lished a cult-group, and this so, at the helm of a Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty agency in Trinidad and To­ba­go. This blas­phe­mous ac­tion can even­tu­al­ly cause this pro­pa­gan­da, to be the cat­a­lyst for our na­tion (or at the least, this Gov­ern­ment), to be brand­ed as hav­ing the cra­zi­est na­tion­al lead­er­ship, since time be­gan.

“I was care­ful to no­tice that on­ly “Chris­t­ian peo­ple” were fired re­cent­ly from the now in­fa­mous SSA. I have been told that those fired were from Bap­tist to Catholic (and every­thing in be­tween). No Hin­dus, Mus­lims or any oth­er cat­e­go­ry of a re­li­gion was tar­get­ed,” Brown said.

“This Trinidad and To­ba­go is not Chi­na or Rus­sia. Why have you peo­ple at­tacked our Chris­t­ian com­mu­ni­ty?”

Fol­low­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the SSA, Brown, along with two for­mer SSA em­ploy­ees, Sgt Sher­win Wal­dron and Su­san Portell-Grif­fith, have been charged with “trans­fer­ring” four “pro­hib­it­ed firearms” from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) to the SSA.

How­ev­er, while po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue, no oth­er charges have been laid against for­mer SSA em­ploy­ees.

For­mer di­rec­tor Roger Best, was de­tained, ques­tioned and sub­se­quent­ly re­leased as there was no ev­i­dence to charge him with mis­be­hav­iour in pub­lic of­fice.

Last week, Best told the Sun­day Guardian that the claims of coup plot are “not on­ly pre­pos­ter­ous but lu­di­crous.”

Jerusalem Bride Church

Brown de­scribed the State’s ac­tions against the SSA as an at­tack against “Chris­tians who love right­eous­ness, and choose to be pup­pets to ab­solute­ly no one.”

“If the na­tion has not as yet seen this blas­phe­my for what it ac­tu­al­ly is: this is an at­tack against THE CHURCH OF JE­SUS CHRIST!!!” We at the Jerusalem Bride Church still help re­store bro­ken homes and mar­riages, and are not the agents of di­vi­sions or sedi­tions.

“We still help the poor and needy. We as­sist chil­dren’s homes in sev­er­al ways. We as­sist our com­mu­ni­ty in what­ev­er way we can. Our lifestyle and fruit of char­ac­ter in our com­mu­ni­ty is em­braced by those who know us in truth. We are in­tol­er­ant to di­vi­sive­ness and the prop­a­ga­tion of dishar­mo­ny,” he said.

He said that in the JB church they em­pha­size in their preach­ing that “sal­va­tion through the Cross and the Blood of Je­sus Christ, The King­dom of God that Je­sus spoke about in “The OUR FA­THER Prayer”, Heav­en and Hell, The Sec­ond re­turn of Je­sus, and the Rap­ture, Right­eous­ness, Love, Ho­li­ness, God­li­ness, Pu­ri­ty, Wor­ship, Prayer, Fel­low­ship, For­give­ness to every­one, In­tegri­ty, Long­suf­fer­ing, Pa­tience, Tem­per­ance, Jus­tice, Faith, Mer­cy and Truth.”

Con­verse­ly, he added, the JB church preach­es “against the sins writ­ten in the Ten Com­mand­ments, and al­so hate, re­venge, lust­ing, world­li­ness, here­sies, schisms, adul­tery, for­ni­ca­tion, drunk­en­ness, witch­craft, whore­mon­gery and rev­el­ry And al­so, against every­thing that Je­sus told us to not do, as found writ­ten in the Bible.

“I have kept my­self from all of the com­mon of vices. No drink­ing, smok­ing, sex­u­al vices, nev­er ever once have I even touched mar­i­jua­na or il­le­gal drugs. Be­sides these things, I have nev­er com­mit­ted ei­ther for­ni­ca­tion or adul­tery since I was born and this is true up to this very day,” he said.

Brown said at 24, he did part time Bible school evening class­es for two years, from 1981 to 1983, at the West In­dies School of The­ol­o­gy be­fore go­ing on to the full-time pro­gramme from 1984 to 1987. He then pur­sued a de­gree pro­gramme at the Caribbean Mis­sion Bible School from 1990 to 1993.

“I was made a pas­tor (by the Pen­te­costal As­sem­bles of the West In­dies), of a Church in Pin­to Road, Ari­ma, in 1986, while I was still at­tend­ing Bible School in that or­ga­ni­za­tion. I pa­s­tored that church for eight years,” he said.

Brown said he was made a pas­tor at four dif­fer­ent church­es which all still ex­ist to­day.

“I still hold on rigid­ly to the in­tegri­ty of their Bib­li­cal be­liefs. I have been a faith­ful hus­band to my “still the same” lov­ing wife San­di since 1979. We have two bi­o­log­i­cal boy chil­dren (The first was born in 1984),” he said.

Brown said he has al­so been a singer/song­writer and an au­thor of 12 books, eight of which can be found on­line at Ama­zon.

“I am al­so the in­ven­tor of three Bible-based board-games. I hold US patents for two of them. In ad­di­tion, I have been a trav­el­ling evan­ge­list since 1987. I have held min­is­te­r­i­al cre­den­tials with the fol­low­ing Chris­t­ian or­ga­ni­za­tions thus far - the Pen­te­costal As­sem­blies of The West In­dies (PAWI), the Full Gospel As­so­ci­a­tion Of Trinidad and To­ba­go, Kingsway Fel­low­ship In­ter­na­tion­al of Des Moines, Iowa, Con­gress WBN ((In­ter­na­tion­al), The Taber­na­cle of Praise For All Na­tions (In­ter­na­tion­al), Faith As­sem­bly In­ter­na­tion­al and the As­so­ci­a­tion Of In­de­pen­dent Min­is­ters (AIM).”

Pas­tor and SSA en­twined

Best is a pas­tor at the Jerusalem Bride where the ser­mons fo­cus on dooms­day-like is­sues.

As the SSA scan­dal un­fold­ed, Best took a back­seat on ad­dress­ing al­le­ga­tions were levied against him and the agency and in re­sponse to ques­tions from the Sun­day Guardian over the past sev­er­al months, he would re­spond with Bible pas­sages.

So how did the pas­tor of a church get hired as an ad­vi­sor to the di­rec­tor of the coun­try’s in­tel­li­gence agency?

Re­li­gious lead­ers were tar­get­ed by the SSA be­cause of their ac­cess to com­mu­ni­ties, to source in­for­ma­tion - from pun­dits to priests to imams. That’s how Pas­tor Brown got in­to the in­for­ma­tion shar­ing busi­ness.

He start­ed off earn­ing small sums from the now dis­band­ed Spe­cial An­ti-Crime Unit of T&T un­der Brigadier Pe­ter Joseph. At that time, he said he was a con­trac­tor. In­for­ma­tion ob­tained sug­gests he owns Mam­moth Con­tract­ing- but had his ear on the ground which proved use­ful.

For years, he was paid $10,000 by the SSA for in­for­ma­tion but last year he was for­mal­ly em­ployed as Best’s ad­vi­sor for $25,000 a month.

He told Guardian Me­dia for­mer Air Guard cap­tain Kester Weekes (who has been re­called from DC), is a mem­ber of his church who in­tro­duced Best to him by bring­ing him to church. Brown de­scribed Best as a “born-again” Chris­t­ian who is a ve­hi­cle to do good work in the coun­try.

In that pe­ri­od of get­ting to know Best, Brown’s son was hired at the SSA. So im­pressed was Best with Brown that he would al­low him to sit in on high-lev­el meet­ings, trav­el with him (they trav­elled to­geth­er to Is­rael last year) and al­lowed him to in­ter­face with in­ter­na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty coun­ter­parts.

Best al­so spent his spare time at the con­struc­tion fa­cil­i­ty of Brown’s church.

Last week, Guardian Me­dia re­port­ed that for­mer SSA agents, in­clud­ing Best and for­mer di­rec­tor of ad­min­is­tra­tion Joanne Daniel, are gear­ing up to sue the State.

Among the in­ves­ti­ga­tions are mur­ders linked to the agency through the Tac­ti­cal Unit es­tab­lished by Best.

The Sun­day Guardian re­port­ed last week that three mur­ders—the 2019 mur­ders of Bryan Fe­lix and Aleem Khan, whose bod­ies were found in a forest­ed part of Cu­mu­to on Oc­to­ber 13, 2019, and CCTV cam­era con­trac­tor Andy Daniel—were linked to the SSA probe.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors are re­port­ed­ly look­ing at the sim­i­lar­i­ty in pat­terns be­tween the mur­ders of Daniel and al­leged gang­ster An­thon “Bom­bay” Boney in Sep­tem­ber 2021.

SSA Time­line (Put In Box)

On March 2, in a Face­book post, the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter is­sued a state­ment which said that the di­rec­tor of the SSA, Ma­jor Roger Best had been sent on ad­min­is­tra­tive leave and T&T Am­bas­sador to the US, Philips-Spencer ap­point­ed act­ing di­rec­tor.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley said Best was sent on leave based on trou­bling in­for­ma­tion pro­vid­ed to the Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil (NSC) by the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS). He said the in­for­ma­tion war­rant­ed dras­tic in­ter­ven­tion.

On March 11, in an in­ter­view with the Ex­press, Pas­tor Ian Al­bert Ezekiel Brown, came for­ward to claim he is a spy at the SSA be­cause his cov­er was blown when po­lice raid­ed his church on March 9. How­ev­er, Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that Brown is a ac­tu­al­ly a con­sul­tant to Best at the agency.

Best is one of nine el­ders in Brown’s church.

Brown told Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day that if he had made him­self pub­lic in the me­dia, the mem­bers of his church who are of­fi­cers would have been fired.

One of the peo­ple he claims is on the fir­ing line is his son, who was em­ployed at the agency be­fore him.


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