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Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor Faris Al-Rawi is ques­tion­ing why Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der ap­pears to be re­ly­ing on a list from the Unit­ed States to iden­ti­fy in­di­vid­u­als al­leged­ly in­volved in drug traf­fick­ing and or­gan­ised crime in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Speak­ing at an Op­po­si­tion me­dia con­fer­ence in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day, Al-Rawi said that while in­tel­li­gence-shar­ing with the US is rou­tine, it rais­es se­ri­ous ques­tions if the Gov­ern­ment does not al­ready pos­sess sim­i­lar in­for­ma­tion through its own se­cu­ri­ty and in­tel­li­gence net­works.

His com­ments fol­low a news­pa­per re­port stat­ing that the US had shared a list of in­di­vid­u­als sus­pect­ed of in­volve­ment in drug traf­fick­ing, car­tel ac­tiv­i­ty, il­le­gal firearms and vi­o­lent crime with Alexan­der.