TO date we have heard nothing further from the Attorney General in the reappearance of the Naipaul-Coolman file that suddenly reappeared on Monday Februrary 6, 2023.
We have heard nothing about who located it and who handed it to the Solicitor General. Nothing from Justice Stanley John, the lead investigator, on its mysterious reappearance. It’s like presto magic here it is. Magicians love to yell presto! before a trick.
The Attorney General came last week and made a big hullabaloo of how this file disappeared and allegedly implied some sinister conspiracy to remove the file from the offices and hide the file. Yet now we are all left scratching our heads again with the sudden reappearance of the file like magic when the AG on of February 7, 2023, indicated in the Senate that the missing file was found. He went further to state “against the background of the last statement of Justice Stanley John, I do not propose to answer the auction which is subject to a continuing investigation. That is for the investigation team to investigate and report on in due course.”
Really man, you can’t just come one day and “Ramajay” and get on in a public forum in a media conference and now plead that you cannot answer any more questions because of a continuing investigation.
It’s just not right. Mr AG, you definitely need to clarify. This is just unacceptable as the absent file was made a big story as the reason why the state failed to mount a defense in the civil matter where nine accused sued the State for wrongful and malicious prosecution. This triggered a default judgment last week where the accused were awarded over 20 million of taxpayers dollars. A difficult development and hard for citizens to really swallow that taxpayers must foot the bill for the total incompetence and stupidity of the whole affair.
How are we to believe anything coming out of the Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs offices? Ironically, Senator Mark questioned the AG on the “lost and found” sarcastically asking to call in Magician Mumford from Sesame Street. It would be funny if it wasn’t such a serious matter with the level of incompetence that is beyond astounding! The amazing Mumford is a magician from the famous Sesame Street show for toddlers.
This whole episode only provoked laughter from the opposition bench but let’s be serious the People’s National Movement (PNM) and the AG’s office are just deflecting and skirting questions about the “lost and found” file and have made the situation a “pappyshow” many of which seems to be what this administration has been known for these days, deflections, cover-ups and subterfuge. As another prominent lawyer said “something is
Rotten in the state of the Attorney General’s department.
All I have to say is “A La peanut butter sandwiches!” The file has reappeared in the curious case of the “missing file”!
Neil Gosine is an insurance executive. He is also the treasurer of the UNC and a former chairman of the National Petroleum Marketing Company of Trinidad and Tobago. He holds a Master’s in Business Administration MBA, BSC in Mathematics and a BA in Administrative Studies. The views and comments expressed in this column are not necessarily those of AZP News, a Division of Complete Image Limited.
‘A La Peanut Butter Sandwiches’ – the File has Reappeared
TO date we have heard nothing further from the Attorney General in the reappearance of the Naipaul-Coolman file that suddenly reappeared on Monday Februrary 6, 2023.
We have heard nothing about who located it and who handed it to the Solicitor General. Nothing from Justice Stanley John, the lead investigator, on its mysterious reappearance. It’s like presto magic here it is. Magicians love to yell presto! before a trick.
The Attorney General came last week and made a big hullabaloo of how this file disappeared and allegedly implied some sinister conspiracy to remove the file from the offices and hide the file. Yet now we are all left scratching our heads again with the sudden reappearance of the file like magic when the AG on of February 7, 2023, indicated in the Senate that the missing file was found. He went further to state “against the background of the last statement of Justice Stanley John, I do not propose to answer the auction which is subject to a continuing investigation. That is for the investigation team to investigate and report on in due course.”
Really man, you can’t just come one day and “Ramajay” and get on in a public forum in a media conference and now plead that you cannot answer any more questions because of a continuing investigation.
It’s just not right. Mr AG, you definitely need to clarify. This is just unacceptable as the absent file was made a big story as the reason why the state failed to mount a defense in the civil matter where nine accused sued the State for wrongful and malicious prosecution. This triggered a default judgment last week where the accused were awarded over 20 million of taxpayers dollars. A difficult development and hard for citizens to really swallow that taxpayers must foot the bill for the total incompetence and stupidity of the whole affair.
How are we to believe anything coming out of the Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs offices? Ironically, Senator Mark questioned the AG on the “lost and found” sarcastically asking to call in Magician Mumford from Sesame Street. It would be funny if it wasn’t such a serious matter with the level of incompetence that is beyond astounding! The amazing Mumford is a magician from the famous Sesame Street show for toddlers.
This whole episode only provoked laughter from the opposition bench but let’s be serious the People’s National Movement (PNM) and the AG’s office are just deflecting and skirting questions about the “lost and found” file and have made the situation a “pappyshow” many of which seems to be what this administration has been known for these days, deflections, cover-ups and subterfuge. As another prominent lawyer said “something is
Rotten in the state of the Attorney General’s department.
All I have to say is “A La peanut butter sandwiches!” The file has reappeared in the curious case of the “missing file”!
Neil Gosine is an insurance executive. He is also the treasurer of the UNC and a former chairman of the National Petroleum Marketing Company of Trinidad and Tobago. He holds a Master’s in Business Administration MBA, BSC in Mathematics and a BA in Administrative Studies. The views and comments expressed in this column are not necessarily those of AZP News, a Division of Complete Image Limited.