UNC awaits ‘doctored’ WASA report

UNITED National Congress (UNC) chairman Wade Mark said the Opposition is eagerly awaiting the laying of Canadian forensic investigator Bob Lindquist’s “doctored” report on alleged WASA corruption in Parliament.  Addressing UNC supporters in Arima on Monday night, Mark said Lindquist’s report was handed to Attorney-General Glenda Morean around 10 am at Cabildo Chambers on Monday.

AG Morean told Newsday on Monday that she received Lindquist’s complete report on Friday and Prime Minister Patrick Manning would have received a copy of the report later in the day. The UNC chairman said normally in such matters, the police turn over the results of their investigations to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). He stated that he had no idea what Morean would delete from Lindquist’s report and Lindquist would never reveal the report’s contents because he was “a hired hand of the PNM”. “We await this doctored report,” Mark declared. The UNC chairman also claimed that a Solid Waste Management Company seminar at the Crowne Plaza yesterday was being used to give special instructions to some 500 CEPEP workers for next Monday’s Local Government Elections. Mark said these workers will be operating mock stations throughout the country next Monday to intimidate voters. Mark warned that the UNC will not tolerate violence against its supporters and “will organise to come to the defence of the people of Trinidad and Tobago”.  The UNC chairman slammed Health Minister Colm Imbert for attacking Emergency Health Services (EHS) workers and claimed Imbert’s promises of 40 new ambulances for the EHS were nothing but cheap politicking. A UNC Senator slammed a close relative for saying the people of Central Trinidad did not want to see Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday in their areas. Panday said the UNC will write the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and other international parliamentary organisations about attitudes of House Speaker Barry Sinanan and Senate President Dr Linda Baboolal towards the UNC.