For­mer Peo­ple’s Part­ner­ship min­is­ter and cur­rent Con­gress of the Peo­ple Po­lit­i­cal Leader Prakash Ra­mad­har says De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge’s claim, in Par­lia­ment on Fri­day, that au­thor­i­ties failed to act de­ci­sive­ly on in­tel­li­gence in 2014 that could have saved Dana See­ta­hal’s life was fur­ther ev­i­dence of the coun­try’s need for in­ter­na­tion­al co­op­er­a­tion.

“That proves the point. We need in­ter­na­tion­al eyes on those who are giv­en the du­ty and re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to pro­tect us. So if what Mr Sturge said was shock­ing, what does that mean for us?

“If you had in­tel­li­gence, let the coun­try see that the use of that should have pre­vent­ed Dana See­ta­hal’s mur­der, and the per­sons who were con­spir­ing should have been charged for mur­der. Not wait for an event,” he said dur­ing a press con­fer­ence at COP’s Curepe Of­fice yes­ter­day morn­ing.