Uncle of slain police officer demands justice

An­na-Lisa Paul

Se­nior Re­porter

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A rel­a­tive of mur­dered po­lice of­fi­cer Anush­ka Ever­s­ley said yes­ter­day’s in­ci­dent, which left his niece dead in a po­lice sta­tion, is an in­dict­ment of the State and is a re­flec­tion of the cur­rent ad­min­is­tra­tion’s in­abil­i­ty to keep the cit­i­zen­ry safe.

So­cial and po­lit­i­cal ac­tivist Wen­dell Ever­s­ley de­scribed the mur­der and sub­se­quent theft of over 60 firearms and 4,000 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion as un­prece­dent­ed and his­toric.

Speak­ing with re­porters at the vic­tim’s home in Ed­in­burgh 500, Ch­agua­nas – Ever­s­ley re­newed the call for Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der and De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge to be fired.

He was high­ly crit­i­cal of Alexan­der as he said his re­ac­tions to var­i­ous mat­ters of na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty were lack­ing and were noth­ing short of “a rant.”

Quot­ing from David Rud­der’s “Mad Man Rant,” Ever­s­ley did not spare the Cab­i­net.

“Our Par­lia­ment, the high­est of­fice in the land, is a fish mar­ket,” he de­clared.

He blast­ed Alexan­der for his sup­pos­ed­ly quick re­sponse to the mur­der of busi­ness­man and friend Steve Ghany Jr, as he said a file had land­ed on the desk of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions in very short or­der.

Mean­while, the fam­i­ly of Joshua Sama­roo had yet to re­ceive jus­tice.

“We have reached a state in this coun­try that who have more corn, could feed more fowl,” he said.

Ever­s­ley said blood con­tin­ued to flow freely – even in the midst of a State of Emer­gency (SoE).

And re­fer­ring to the dis­cov­ery that 56 bod­ies had been pulled from a grave at the Cu­mu­to Ceme­tery on Sat­ur­day, he went on, “I do not know if Sa­tan take over this land and he have his op­er­a­tive in par­lia­ment.”

He al­so lashed out at the In­ter-Re­li­gious Or­gan­i­sa­tion (IRO) for its marked si­lence on what has been hap­pen­ing in the coun­try.

He con­tin­ued, “The Gov­ern­ment say when UNC win, the coun­try win.”

But he asked, “Who win­ning right now?”

In­di­cat­ing it was on­ly the crim­i­nals that ap­peared to be win­ning at this time, he de­mand­ed to know, “Is the crim­i­nals at war with the Gov­ern­ment?”

Ever­s­ley said the on­ly oth­er time Trinidad and To­ba­go had ex­pe­ri­enced any­thing like this was back in 1990 with the at­tempt­ed coup, dur­ing which time he was tak­en as a hostage in the par­lia­ment and sub­se­quent­ly shot.

“Are we go­ing to see an­oth­er 1990?” he mused.

Voic­ing con­cerns as to what kind of of­fer of safe­ty the se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies can ex­tend to the pop­u­lace at this time, he said it was sad, but no one was safe at this time.