Where is Juliana Pena? Did she use State $$ for travel?

Acting Police Commissioner James Philbert told reporters recently that he knew where to find rev. Juliana Pena, the spiritual adviser of former Prime Minister Patrick Manning. And he said police would talk to her if and when it was necessary.

He subsequently admitted that he was having difficulty locating Pena.

On Thursday night Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar raised questions about the whereabouts of Pena, who is linked to the controversial church at Guanapo.

"The woman seems to have disappeared into thin air," Persad-Bissessar said. She noted that according to immigration records Pena left the country on February 6 and returned five days later from a trip to Venezuela.

"And since then she should be in the country and is not, then did she abscond?" the Prime Minister asked.

She also raised the question about expenses for all Pena's travels. "A trail of e-mail correspondence suggests that Ms Pena may have been collecting funds from our foreign embassies to fund her jet setting and globe trotting lifestyle," Persad-Bissessar said.

Pena travelled to Zimbabwe as a diplomatic representative of the government of Trinidad and Tobago in 2005 and met President Robert Mugabe.

Read the story: Rev. Pena represented T&T as special envoy of PM Manning: Express report

However, the Foreign Affairs ministry denied that Pena ever had diplomatic status.

Read the story: Rev. Pena does not have diplomatic status: T&T Foreign Minister

The Prime Minister asked opposition leader Keith Rowley for an explanation. "I want to ask Dr Rowley whether he knows anything about State funds being used through our foreign missions as a slush fund to finance the high and mighty lifestyle of Juliana Pena," she said.

Persad-Bissessar added, "The corruption of the Manning administration pervaded every aspect of our country. From UDeCOTT, to housing, hospitals to boats and now possibly to our embassies, the tentacles are far, deep and wide."