Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der is in­sist­ing that the po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the fund­ing of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) mul­ti­mil­lion-dol­lar Bal­isi­er House head­quar­ters is be­ing con­duct­ed in­de­pen­dent­ly and has noth­ing to do with pol­i­tics. He is urg­ing the pub­lic to al­low in­ves­ti­ga­tors and the courts to car­ry out their du­ties with­out po­lit­i­cal in­ter­fer­ence.

Alexan­der made the com­ments yes­ter­day while speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia at a health fair host­ed at the Tu­na­puna con­stituen­cy of­fice. His com­ment came a day af­ter the High Court grant­ed the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) a Pre­lim­i­nary Un­ex­plained Wealth Or­der (PU­WO), com­pelling the PNM to ex­plain the source of fund­ing for the con­struc­tion of its Port-of-Spain head­quar­ters.

The or­der was grant­ed af­ter Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro au­tho­rised act­ing As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Ram­dath Phillip to ap­ply to the High Court un­der Sec­tion 58(1) of the Civ­il As­set Re­cov­ery and Man­age­ment and Un­ex­plained Wealth Act, 2019. The ap­pli­ca­tion names the trustees of the PNM and the par­ty, rep­re­sent­ed by its gen­er­al sec­re­tary, as re­spon­dents.