For­mer Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, Gary Grif­fith, has ques­tioned the rea­son­ing for for­mer Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, Fitzger­ald Hinds' vis­it to the min­istry's of­fice.

"So, is his pa­thet­ic at­tack via his lat­est Face­book post an at­tempt to dis­tract the pub­lic from the pos­si­ble crim­i­nal charges he or oth­ers could face if doc­u­ments show­ing who ex­act­ly gave the req­ui­site ap­proval were to come to light?" Grif­fith asked in a state­ment on Sat­ur­day morn­ing re­spond­ing to a post from Hinds on his Face­book page in which he crit­i­cised the gov­ern­ment's pro­posed stand your ground leg­is­la­tion.

A me­dia re­port on Sat­ur­day morn­ing said Hinds at­tempt­ed to ac­cess the min­istry’s Tem­ple Court of­fice in Port of Spain on Thurs­day. An of­fi­cial alarm was raised by min­istry of­fi­cials. De­fence Min­is­ter, Wayne Sturge, con­firmed the oc­cur­rence to the news­pa­per.

Grif­fith fur­ther stat­ed, "And with re­gards to his ‘vis­it’ of the “min­istry’s Tem­ple Court of­fice on Aber­crom­by Street” where he “sought to meet with se­nior staff mem­bers re­gard­ing sen­si­tive files housed with­in the min­istry” - let me re­mind the pub­lic that on­ly Hinds as Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty could have giv­en ap­proval for TTPS of­fi­cers to go to Bar­ba­dos re the “ab­duc­tion” of Brent Thomas from Bar­ba­dos."

This is a de­vel­op­ing sto­ry. Guardian Me­dia will pro­vide more de­tails as it comes.