AG advises teen on threatening video to surrender to police

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Attorney General Anand Ramlogan has advised the teenager who appears in a video containing threats against Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to surrender to police.

Ramlogan also told reporters Sunday that he is working on legislation to regulate and monitor the use of social networking sites.

"I have in fact asked the Acting Chief Parliamentary Counsel, Mr. Cuthbert Jolly, and the Chairman of the Law Reform Commission, Mr. Samraj Harripaul, to undertake an immediate assignment with a view to drafting laws to take to Parliament, to deal with the regulation and monitoring of the social networking sites," the AG said.

He said the aim is to ensure they are people are not abusing misusing the sites with their "hidden agendas and sinister and malicious motives to incite persons and to use it to form gangs of their own."

Ramlogan said the person who appears in the video has apologised. However he said she must do more than that.

"I've received on my own Facebook wall an apology from the young person.
What I wish to say to her, as sorry as I might be for her actions and as disappointed and as disgusted as people may feel by it, what you must do now is turn yourself into the police and let them deal with the matter because it is a most serious matter," he said.

He had a message to the young lady. "I say all may not be lost. We all make mistakes but this is a very grave one.

"The best thing you can do is to turn yourself in to the police and let the law take its course and pray. Know that God will always have mercy and there will always be another door to open in life."

The obscene and offensive video, which was posted on YOUTUBE, has been removed.