Top cop statement on “emailgate” scandal described as “grossly reckless”

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Deputy Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Joan Honore-Paul, has described as “shockingly irresponsible and grossly reckless” statements made by Acting Police Commissioner that documents presented in the Parliament indicating that members of the Trinidad and Tobago government were engaged in efforts to undermine the judiciary, the DPP and the media, were false. In an interview with the Trinidad Express newspaper on July 5, Stephen Williams said that the emails presented by Opposition Leader Dr. Keith Rowley purporting to implicate Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar, Attorney general Anand Ramlogan, Local Government Minister Suruj Rambachan and security advisor Gary Griffith were not genuine. “They are fake,” he said adding “On the face of it, to any Trinidadian, those are not authentic e-mails”.