Several members of the watchdog group Fixin’ T&T stood outside the Police Administration building in Port-of-Spain yesterday bearing placards which questioned the status of various ongoing probes including the infamous Emailgate.
Head of the organisation, Kirk Waithe, said that criminal activity at every level was fuelled by the perceived ineffectiveness with which allegations of white collar crime and misbehaviour in public office were treated.
“It seems that nothing is happening while young people languish in our jails for much less. We have grown weary of the excuses and being told that investigations are at a ‘sensitive stage.’
“If not already lost, we are rapidly losing the moral authority to go into communities to tell young men and women to put their guns down and stop selling drugs,” Waithe said.
During yesterday’s weekly police press briefing held at Police Administration building in Port-of-Spain yesterday, public information officer for the Police Service, ASP Michael Pierre, when asked about the length of time some on the matters were taking to conclude said the probes were ongoing.
In March last year Waithe wrote to acting Commissioner of Police Stephen Williams requesting that a criminal investigation be launched into the setting up and operations of the Calabar Foundation amid claims of fraud and misconduct levelled against Port-of-Spain South MP Marlene McDonald.
In September last year Waithe also demanded that President Anthony Carmona to answer questions about expenditure at the Office of the President and President’s House in which discrepancies were reportedly in the household budget and expenditure.