The In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion has cleared Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and mem­bers of the Par­lia­ment of any wrong­do­ings in the al­leged "Email­gate" scan­dal on the ba­sis of "in­suf­fi­cient grounds."

A cor­re­spon­dence from the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter stat­ed that the Prime Min­is­ter de­clares this as a "ma­jor vic­to­ry."

The full state­ment reads in full:

The Reg­is­trar of the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion has to­day, 19th May 2015, writ­ten to At­tor­ney-at-law Mr. Is­rael Khan, S.C. in his ca­pac­i­ty as At­tor­ney for the Hon. Prime Min­is­ter in con­nec­tion with the "Email­gate" al­le­ga­tions.

In that let­ter cap­tioned "In­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to al­leged 'Email af­fair' by the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion, the Reg­is­trar stat­ed:

"... the Com­mis­sion, pur­suant to sec­tion 34(6) of the Act is sat­is­fied that there are no or in­suf­fi­cient grounds for con­tin­u­ing the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the above mat­ter and ac­cord­ing­ly this in­ves­ti­ga­tion is here­by ter­mi­nat­ed."

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar SC has de­scribed as "a ma­jor vic­to­ry" the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion's rul­ing to­day (as con­tained in their let­ter of 19th May 2015) that ef­fec­tive­ly clears her and the Par­lia­ment of any im­pro­pri­ety with re­spect to the Op­po­si­tion Leader's "fake email" al­le­ga­tions.

The Prime Min­is­ter said, "This is a ma­jor vic­to­ry for the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter and the sov­er­eign­ty of the Par­lia­ment of Trinidad and To­ba­go. I am pleased the find­ing of the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion has vin­di­cat­ed me. Of course I al­ways knew that I had act­ed ap­pro­pri­ate­ly."

"Now we can move on to the re­al is­sue here. That is the Op­po­si­tion Leader's ar­ro­gant ac­tions in mis­lead­ing the Par­lia­ment and im­pugn­ing mem­bers of the Gov­ern­ment"

Prime Min­is­ter Per­sad-Bisses­sar said: "If he will do this to Of­fice of the PM, what would he do to those less able to de­fend them­selves. If elect­ed whom would he bul­ly and ha­rass?"

"Now that the IC has pro­nounced and con­clud­ed their in­ves­ti­ga­tions, the coun­try must move on to the re­al is­sues fac­ing us and re­solve to deal with the chal­lenges that face us at this time.

The Op­po­si­tion Leader's lead­er­ship is again called in­to ques­tion and once again it shows that he is un­fit to lead our coun­try".

Say­ing she felt hum­bled by the In­tegri­ty Com­mis­sion's rul­ing, the Prime Min­is­ter added: "I thank all those cit­i­zens for their deep con­cern and sup­port dur­ing what has been a sor­did pe­ri­od."

Read more in to­mor­row's Guardian as Gail Alexan­der re­ports ful­ly on this mat­ter.