Mixed reactions from Tobagonians

To­bag­o­ni­ans have ex­pressed mixed re­ac­tions fol­low­ing the de­par­ture of the Unit­ed States-in­stalled radar from the is­land.

While some res­i­dents are call­ing for greater trans­paren­cy on its pur­pose and cost, oth­ers re­main in­dif­fer­ent or un­sure of its im­pact.

Jew­el Greene-George, 40, said, "It still leaves a lot of ques­tions to be an­swered. They have packed up and left but no­body has an­swered the ques­tions: who was pay­ing this US$3 mil­lion, what’s go­ing on in terms of the nar­co-ter­ror­ism they were tar­get­ing. There are so many things unan­swered and I do be­lieve some trans­paren­cy is need­ed. They were say­ing they were not shar­ing in­for­ma­tion be­cause that will af­fect na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty, but now that they are gone I think full dis­clo­sure is nec­es­sary. I think the cit­i­zens de­serve it."

Tyreke Mur­phy, 19, from Glam­or­gan said, "I ain’t feel any change be­cause first of all, it was brought in with­out any­one notic­ing un­til a leaked video. I don’t feel any change, prob­a­bly peo­ple on­board with the whole sit­u­a­tion might un­der­stand the whole pro­to­col bet­ter."

Mean­while, Shir­nelle Saun­ders Bap­tiste, 35, a make­up artist, said, "I’m not sure ex­act­ly what the radar was do­ing ex­act­ly. Noth­ing per­son­al, just my thing. I nev­er put any ex­tra thought in­to what the radar was do­ing here. I guess if it served its time, if that’s the right word, of what it came to To­ba­go to do, well then, all the best to new en­deav­ours to the radar. I am here for what­ev­er is next for To­ba­go."