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Homeland Security Minister Roger Alexander is countering accusations that he overstated the role of Tobago’s new radar system, saying his remarks were taken out of context by “so-called experts.”
On Tuesday, when asked whether the radar could help locate couple Derrick and Claribel Tardieu, who were kidnapped from their Monos Island home on Saturday, Alexander said, “Definitely! That’s why the rumours are spreading and that is why we had very little to say at the time. Rumours were just spreading... What we continue to see? Not the same thing happening every day? Boats coming in, we don’t know. And all of these things. This is what we are trying to strategically organise. Technology at its best in order to prevent these things from happening.”
Gary Griffith, a former police commissioner, called the claim “irresponsible” and indicated that technology was already available but were not being used.
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