Rad­hi­ca Sookraj

Bernadette Alex­is, wife of Sel­wyn "Robo­cop" Alex­is said yes­ter­day that T&T was not the kind of na­tion where a Prime Min­is­ter would ever be as­sas­si­nat­ed be­cause peo­ple were too pas­sive.She was speak­ing dur­ing a tele­phone in­ter­view while re­turn­ing from the Bel­mont Po­lice Sta­tion where her hus­band was de­tained.Alex­is, a for­mer mur­der ac­cused, has been de­tained un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions.Bernadette, how­ev­er, said she did not be­lieve this plot was true."It is a sad thing be­cause we vot­ed for her...Why would we plot to kill her when we put her in that po­si­tion," she said.

She added that Per­sad-Bisses­sar was the "moth­er of the na­tion" and even if peo­ple were dis­grun­tled about her poli­cies, no­body would want to kill her."Look at how much non­sense Patrick Man­ning do and no­body plot to kill him," she said."Why would any­body plot to kill her...This is stu­pid­ness."In Trinidad, we don't have as­sas­sins and snipers...We will grum­ble but we won't kill."She said she was al­so wor­ried about Alex­is as he fell ill while in cus­tody and was tak­en to Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal on Thurs­day.She said she went to drop food for Alex­is at the Bel­mont Po­lice Sta­tion around noon yes­ter­day but was told he was tak­en to the San­ta Rosa de­ten­tion cen­tre.

"Right now, I don't even know where that is and I am wor­ried about him," Bernadette said.Mean­while, Krys­tal Alex­is, Robo­cop's daugh­ter said she was up­set be­cause the Gov­ern­ment was us­ing her fa­ther in a po­lit­i­cal game.She de­nied that he was in­volved in any plot, say­ing the ar­rest had em­bar­rassed her fam­i­ly. Speak­ing from the fam­i­ly's shop at En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas, Krys­tal said many peo­ple in En­ter­prise were up­set by the de­ten­tion or­ders."Peo­ple com­ing here and say­ing this is to­tal crazi­ness," she added.

Mean­while, peo­ple who live near de­tainee Shane Craw­ford said they nev­er knew much about him.Craw­ford has two ad­dress­es-Dass Branch Trace, En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas, and Bal­isi­er Road, Smith­field Lands, Waller­field.At Dass Trace, res­i­dents said Craw­ford lived in an apart­ment and nev­er mixed much.At Waller­field, res­i­dents al­so said they did not know Craw­ford.