MP backs call for probe of soldier’s death

Mt Hope, on Tuesday, hours after his body was discovered with a gunshot wound to his neck at the Camp Cumuto base, Wallerfield.

where he had been assigned for some time Although homicide investigators believe he had been shot, there has been speculation that his death could be linked to the probe into the leaking of photographs of Attorney General Faris Al Rawi’s children holding guns during a security training exercise at the Cumuto base. Sturge said in a statement on Friday that there must be a “formal.

independent and effective investigation” into Samaroo’s death. Failure to do so, he said.

will result in legal action against the Chief of Defence Staff and the State. Indarsingh also responded to Al Rawi’s call for Opposition support when the anti-gang legislation returns to the Parliament this week for consideration. He said he was maintaining a wait-andsee approach. “I will say given the state of the country in relation to crime, the Government is getting very desperate,” he said. “They (Government) has failed miserably over the last 19 months.” Indarsingh said the Opposition will peruse carefully the legislation when it comes to the Parliament. “At the end of the day, we are prepared to examine.

I am sure, from the point of view of the Opposition.

legislation that will work in the interest of the people of Trinidad and Tobago,” he said “We were worried about FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act) but when the process was used rightly from a parliamentary point of view, we ensured that we protected the rights of the citizens of this country and obviously, once the law is in the interest of all and sundry, we will examine and we will proceed.” Indarsingh said the Opposition had not yet seen the legislation. “I am not prepared, surely like my leader and my colleagues.

we are not prepared to buy cat in bag as we would say.” During a joint news conference at the Ministry of National Security in Portof- Spain, Al Rawi said the anti-gang legislation will return to the Parliament.

this week, given the spate of gang-related killings in Enterprise, Central Trinidad.

and more recently, in Le Platte, Maraval and Bagatelle.

Diego Martin. He called on the Opposition to support the bill and other key pieces of anti- crime legislation as the Government grapples with the worsening crime situation