For­mer na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ter and po­lice com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment, and more specif­i­cal­ly Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der, to im­prove com­mu­ni­ca­tion with the pub­lic.

In a Face­book post yes­ter­day, Grif­fith dis­cred­it­ed a com­ment made by Alexan­der, who claimed that so­cial me­dia mis­in­for­ma­tion trig­gered wide­spread pan­ic last Fri­day af­ter an in­ter­na­tion­al news re­port sug­gest­ed that the Unit­ed States was poised to be­gin land strikes in Venezuela. This was com­pound­ed by the De­fence Force call­ing out all its mem­bers to bases across the coun­try and the po­lice ser­vice re­call­ing all of­fi­cers from leave.

In an in­ter­view on Sun­day, Alexan­der said his role was not to dis­pel so­cial me­dia claims. He said the Gov­ern­ment should not have to hold a press con­fer­ence to ad­dress every ru­mour and even urged cit­i­zens to be in­de­pen­dent thinkers.