Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress coun­cil­lors and al­der­men are call­ing on the TTPS to in­ves­ti­gate miss­ing au­dio record­ings of the San­gre Grande Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion’s statu­to­ry and com­mit­tee meet­ings.

They say the dis­ap­pear­ance of the record­ings has brought the cor­po­ra­tion’s work to a stand­still, since they can­not pass min­utes to meet­ings held in Au­gust and Sep­tem­ber as there is no record of their res­o­lu­tions. They said over 49 projects can­not go for­ward with­out the rat­i­fi­ca­tion of the statu­to­ry meet­ings.

Speak­ing at a press con­fer­ence in San­gre Grande yes­ter­day, Al­der­man Su­san Hold­er said the po­lice must get in­volved.

“I told the coun­cil chair­man that I can­not rat­i­fy the min­utes be­cause no one bought the miss­ing ital­ics at the meet­ing. Im­me­di­ate­ly, we had an up­roar be­cause no one was giv­ing us in­for­ma­tion about where the miss­ing ital­ics were. We had a fi­nance meet­ing on the 18th of Au­gust and from the com­mit­tee meet­ing where we rat­i­fied the min­utes to make it le­gal, no one has giv­en us an an­swer on the miss­ing in ital­ics. Coun­cil­lor Phillip stat­ed that if we can­not get clar­i­ty on the miss­ing ital­ics, we would have no oth­er choice but to go to the po­lice or whomev­er in au­thor­i­ty. The CEO said that some­one tam­pered with the tape and ital­ics went miss­ing from the serv­er,” said Hold­er, who sur­vived sev­er­al mo­tions against her, fol­low­ing con­tro­ver­sial com­ments re­cent­ly.

The dis­ap­pear­ance of the record­ings was first no­ticed in Au­gust, but coun­cil­lors be­lieved they would have resur­faced.

San­gre Grande South coun­cil­lor Calvin Seecha­ran claimed all record­ings since the coun­cil was formed had van­ished.

“The in­for­ma­tion reach­ing us by the CEO on 30 of Au­gust is that all the files were delet­ed, all the files, mean­ing from the time we would have en­tered of­fice on De­cem­ber 2 to present. So, we are speak­ing about every sin­gle fi­nan­cial mat­ter be­fore us.”

Seecha­ran said no re­port was made to the TTPS by ei­ther the CEO or cor­po­rate sec­re­tary. How­ev­er, he said it was cu­ri­ous that he and two oth­er coun­cil­lors were served with pre-ac­tion pro­to­col let­ters for defama­tion from the cor­po­rate sec­re­tary af­ter they asked ques­tions about the miss­ing records.

The CEO said the mat­ter was re­ferred to the TTPS’ Cy­ber­crime Unit.

Mean­while, cor­po­ra­tion vice chair­man and coun­cil­lor Ken­wyn Phillip said six coun­cil­lors made a re­port to the San­gre Grande po­lice on Sep­tem­ber 9 about the miss­ing record­ings. He called on Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Faris Al-Rawi to look in­to the cor­po­ra­tion’s op­er­a­tions and some of the of­fi­cials.

“There is a lot go­ing on in­side the San­gre Grande Re­gion­al Co­op­er­a­tion and please Min­is­ter, look at it, as the peo­ple of San­gre Grande are suf­fer­ing be­cause of pulling and tug­ging and in the San­gre Grande Re­gion­al Co­op­er­a­tion be­cause cer­tain mem­bers of the ad­min­is­tra­tion are not hav­ing their way.”

How­ev­er, PNM coun­cil­lor for Va­len­cia West Si­mone Gill de­nied the min­utes for all meet­ings were delet­ed. She said the coun­cil re­ceived in­for­ma­tion that record­ings from two meet­ings were delet­ed and an in­ves­ti­ga­tion was launched by the CEO to de­ter­mine what oc­curred and at­tempts are be­ing made to re­cov­er the files.