GEISHA KOWLESSAR-ALONZO
Senior Reporter
geisha.kowlessar@guardian.co.tt
Following the shooting deaths of four people in Cocorite on Saturday night, the UNC is doubling down on its criticisms of National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds, describing him as useless and a failure.
“The most incompetent national security minister in the history of this country,” said Oropouche West MP Davendranath Tancoo at a UNC news conference yesterday.
“However, it seems that incompetence, corruption, incapability and the one single ability to lie and mislead is what are the requirements to become a minister under this Government.”
Tancoo said not only is crime continuing to affect “every single person everywhere” but justice is not forthcoming. He referenced the murder of Dana Seetahal, SC.
Ten years after Seetahal’s killing, Director of Public Prosecutions Roger Gaspard has said his office is still awaiting documents from the Judiciary needed for the case to be set for trial. The Judiciary has, however, denied this claim.
In the interim, the slain senior counsel’s family, friends and colleagues believe the long wait for justice is a betrayal of her legacy.
Tancoo said it is time for Hinds and Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley to be held to account.
Couva South MP Rudy Indarsingh accused Hinds of continuing to “confuffle and bamboozle the population” with words and taglines such as “a whole of Government approach,” while law-abiding citizens continue to be terrorised and remain prisoners in their own homes because of the lack of tangible action from the Government.