Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia In­ves­tiga­tive Jour­nal­ist

The ap­point­ment of an ex­ter­nal in­ves­tiga­tive team to probe the miss­ing am­mu­ni­tion from the Cu­mu­to Bar­racks high­lights a con­cern­ing lack of trust in the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force (TTDF), ac­cord­ing to crim­i­nol­o­gist Dau­rius Figueira.

“If you bring in ex­ter­nal peo­ple to in­ves­ti­gate, you have now gone and politi­cised it be­cause you are send­ing the mes­sage that you don’t re­al­ly trust them. Re­mem­ber you have a chain of com­mand there. That is a mil­i­tary or­gan­i­sa­tion, so how could you bring ex­ter­nals to come and in­ves­ti­gate?