Let whistle blowing start

“Once they are followed, my understanding is that the report can very well be made public,” said Minister in the Ministry of National Security Dennis Moses. The report commissioned by the TT Defence Force was done by a Board of Inquiry. Asked further by Opposition Senator Wade Mark during yesterday’s sitting of the Senate as to whether, in the interest of saving the reputation and image of the TTDF, would Government reconsider its position on tabling the report in the Parliament, Moses said, “I am not sure whether the procedures that attend releasing such a report” can allow for it being brought to the Parliament.

“Notwithstanding the inquiry being an internal one,” Moses said, “as a matter of public interest, a response would have been forwarded to the honourable member.” He said he understood that recently “almost verbatim, a detailed version would have appeared in the press, only, but Sunday.” Moses comments were in response to Mark’s initial question on whether the full report will be made public in the interest of all concerned given the public denial by Major General Kenrick Maharaj, former Chief of Defence Staff of the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force on his involvement in the matter involving the two children posing with military weapons at Camp Cumuto.

On Sunday, Maharaj said he did not authorise the range practice conducted at the Cumuto Barracks and he did not invite Al Rawi to any military to attend any range firing activity. He also said he did not have any communications with Al Rawi on the matter at any time, and he was not at Cumuto Barracks on the day in question. Al Rawi has told Newsday that he was at Camp Cumuto at the time, at the invitation of the army and that Maharaj had arranged everything.