An executive member of the Congress of the People (COP) on Thursday dared Attorney General John Jeremie to make public the report from the investigations by Bob Lindquist into UDeCOTT chairman Calder Hart. "I challenge the Attorney General to show the public of Trinidad and Tobago the report by Bob Lindquist on the Ministry of Legal Affairs Tower and I am 100 per cent certain, not 99 per cent you know ... that it will reveal that Calder Hart did nothing wrong," Vernon De Lima told reporters at a media conference.
Jeremie told reporters on Wednesday that he launched a probe into Hart last September after UDeCOTT tried to block the hearings of the Uff inquiry. He said Prime Minister Patrick Manning is aware of the investigation.
It was Diego Martin Dr Keith Rowley who first raised alarm bells about UDeCOTT and its executive chairman, Calder Hart. That led to his dismissal from cabinet. De Lima praised the PNM MP, calling Rowley a national hero.
The COP official said the investigation is just a facade. He claimed that the government had hoped that UDeCOTT's court challenge would have stopped the Uff Enquiry from delivering a report in which case the Attorney General would have simply said "Lindquist told us so since September last year".
De Lima also took issue with the timelines in Jeremie’s statement, pointing out that even though the Attorney General said his office launched the probe in September both Prime Minister Patrick Manning and UDeCOTT line Minister Emily Gaynor Dick-Forde defended Hart after that date.
And he asked why the AG's office has not given the investigator, Canadian Robert Lindquist, information about the alleged Hart family link.
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