Credible information, Mr Snaggs?

THE EDITOR: I was beside myself with joy last Sunday night when I tuned on to the news on television and was greeted by our esteemed Ag Police Commissioner Everald Snaggs with the following report: “The intelligence and investigative arm of the police service has been working on some credible information about activities that should take place in Port-of-Spain today. In fact, working on information over the past couple of days, our police  officers intercepted a vehicle with two men who were about to rob the Lotto outlet on Independence Square and they were confronted by the police officers; there was a shootout in which one of the bandits died.”

Yes, the police are doing excellent investigative work to stop crime before it happens. They are now supplied with credible information that hopefully would scare the would-be kidnappers into thinking twice as credible information may now be reported about them too.
But wait. Didn’t I pay $3 for a newspaper last Sunday? Yes I did! I am confused now and would like to ask Mr Snaggs the following questions: 1)Why are lotto machines opened on Sundays in Port-of-Spain and not in Arima? 2) If it is illegal to open betting shops on Sundays then why not Lotto machines too? 3) Were the police officers going to arrest these illegal lotto operators too? 4) Or God forbid: Was the credible information not so credible after all? 5) Would the suppliers of this “credible” information feel the full brunt of the law as people who “waste police time?”

RICKY DRAVID
Arima