Se­nior Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials and Op­po­si­tion MPs have con­tend­ed that de­spite re­cent claims by At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie that a na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty in­ci­dent linked to a gang mem­ber last Fri­day, prompt­ed height­ened pro­tec­tion for mem­bers of par­lia­ment and se­nior Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials, they don’t feel un­safe or alarmed.

Days af­ter Je­re­mie told par­lia­ment that ad­di­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures had been trig­gered fol­low­ing the al­leged threat, the par­lia­men­tar­i­ans yes­ter­day said they had nei­ther been in­formed of any di­rect threats nor ob­served any no­tice­able in­crease in se­cu­ri­ty.

Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee dis­missed sug­ges­tions that he was the sub­ject of any threat, though, in­sist­ing he felt com­plete­ly safe. “No, no, no. I’m love­ly, so no­body want­ed, I don’t have those kinds of things on me,” Lee said in re­sponse to ques­tions on whether he was the min­is­ter who had been threat­ened.