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For­mer Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force Com­man­der Nor­man Din­di­al is call­ing for full trans­paren­cy from the Gov­ern­ment fol­low­ing the in­stal­la­tion of a US mil­i­tary radar sys­tem in To­ba­go.

Din­di­al, who is al­so the NTA’s po­lit­i­cal leader, said he was not sat­is­fied with the re­spons­es giv­en at Sat­ur­day’s press con­fer­ence, where the Min­is­ter of De­fence, To­ba­go’s Chief Sec­re­tary, and the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al at­tempt­ed to ad­dress pub­lic con­cern but de­clined to an­swer sev­er­al key ques­tions.

He said the min­is­ter’s po­si­tion—that it was “not in the pub­lic in­ter­est” to dis­close the pow­ers un­der which US Marines op­er­at­ed dur­ing the radar in­stal­la­tion—rais­es se­ri­ous sov­er­eign­ty is­sues.