S.I.A Shocker

[SR]

which part u see me defending what the pp did with it

i am just showing the other side as rowley an co trying to play as if what they did was smelling of roses
and if rowley had such a concern about this issue why wasnt it raised in the past under the what the pnm adminsitration was doing

[tr1ad]

what time the witch hunt starting?

i missed the one for reshmi

[Humes]

my questions are to what has been going on in the past and how was it allowed to be like that

Your questions are stupid.

- What was going on in the past was shite.

- It's because of such shite that the PNM is now in government and a shadow of its former self.

- The government has an opportunity to correct the shite of the past, and they still f*ckin up. That doh concern you more?

[Humes]

Why thread merge?

[shogun]

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/commentaries/Recommending_Reshmi-115534004.html





anyone care to comment on the qualifications of the previous head


quote

"The human ,resource records at the SIA and the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard (TTCG) reveal that Nigel Clement was in possession of 5 0' Levels with grades B's and C's. Moreover, the majority of his career was spent as an ordinary naval officer in the TTCG. His experience in the TTCG did not in any way distinguish him for the position to which he was appointed. He possessed no specific training or qualification over and above the average TTCG officer to qualify him for his appointment as Director of the SSA or SIA. ""In March 2009, one month before the submission of the Ross Report on the National Security Sector Review, which initially recommended the merger of SIA and SSA. Nigel Clement sought to qualify himself for the position of Director of the merged entity at the expense of the State. He began pursuit of a Diploma/Masters of Studies in Applied Criminology and Police Management at Wolfson College, Cambridge University, United Kingdom. The approximate cost of the programme is as follows:

Tuition: TT$142,725—£14,000 (£7,000 per academic year)

Travel: TT$351,900—(Business Class airfare to London @ approx. $36,000. And per diem @ approx $22,650 for six, two-week residential sessions over the two year programme).

Total: TT$494,625.

Some cost was borne by SAUTT and some by SIA.

It is unknown at this present time if he has completed same"


can someone exlpain this

maybe rowley should comment on it instead

sorry i mean

rasc/pioneer

He actually did.

http://wn.com/Rowley_touts_qualificatio ... AUTT_Heads

Basically he's saying, the PP is spinning it as if Mr Clement had no qualifications, as to justify the appointment of Reshmi. Clement, seems (to me), more qualified, at least more so than Reshmi...if those qualifications are fact.

[Humes]

Much more qualified.

[brams112]

should read the whole article,it says he is not qualified for the job from the start,,,so people should lay off the topic the article says she is the better person because clement is just a normal sea man,just what i read

[RASC]

I remember making a thread a while ago about TREASON... It was laughed at and of course reduced to page 2 within a day. Now you idiots who scoffed at me see how serious this is. Betraying your own country from your own personal gain or the gain of enemies of the state, should be punishable by the DEATH PENALTY! The associated parties need to stand trail. The office of the prime minister, irregardless of who is in power should never be compromised in such a manner.

[brams112]

soooooooooo what should be the charge for embezzling state funds?firing squad??????????

[16 cycles]

^ bakr still free and he shot up ppl in the parliament....

[Conrad]

So relevant still, when would sheep stop fighting the other herd and realise is ALL AH WE to catch arse.

Thanks to morpheus for the link.

[5onDfloor]

Much more qualified.

Leave the sheep be nah...their vision is clouded

Someone with actual military/security experience>a brown-nosed snitch

^^ x 1000000000

[Greypatch]

PM promises ‘pleasing’ SSA head

http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,135508.html


I did NOT know it was a popularity contest.

[AllTrac]

with her is always a popularity contest, i feel thats her whole purpose of becoming the PM, so she can be popular among her friends internationally. Its always a damn glamor show.

[Greypatch]

[5onDfloor]

wine kamla wine............

[Rainman]

PM pushed for Reshmi
Investigations reveal…
By Camini Marajh Head Investigative Desk

Story Created: Feb 19, 2011 at 11:56 PM ECT

Story Updated: Feb 19, 2011 at 11:56 PM ECT

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, who has rejected public requests to come clean on the appointment process used to catapult Reshmi Ramnarine, a low-level intercept technician, to the top post in the country's premier intelligence-gathering agency, was herself at the heart of the disastrous selection process, Sunday Express investigations have found.

For reasons still unknown, Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar, in a series of moves at the level of both the National Security Council (NSC), of which she is chair, and the Cabinet, pushed through the selection process of an unsuitable candidate she would later defend, who not only did not apply for the top chief spy job, but, also, was never interviewed.

The Sunday Express understands it was the Prime Minister who made the recommendation to the NSC on January 11 for Ramnarine's appointment to the director's chair of the Strategic Services Agency (SSA).

This after the woman who promoted her candidacy for the job, deputy director, SSA, Julie Browne, herself declined the position for "family reasons" after being interviewed by an interministerial committee of the NSC, comprising Attorney General Anand Ramlogan, National Security Minister John Sandy, Legal Affairs Minister Prakash Ramadhar, Justice Minister Herbert Volney and Minister in the Ministry of National Security Subhas Panday.

Last week, it was business as usual for deputy director Browne, who is still to answer why she made the recommendation for her very junior subordinate; why she breached security protocols and did not conduct the requisite background checks for her choice of candidate; why she went outside of her remit to make recommendation in the first place; why she made the recommendation to the Prime Minister and not to her line minister, Sandy, who asked her to put in the Ramnarine nomination; and most troubling of all, why she misled the Prime Minister and the Cabinet about Ramnarine's qualifications and work experience.

Browne, who has proven herself inept in the ensuing Ramnarine spy scandal, has not been censured for the litany of security failings, including her failure to check the references listed in the Ramnarine-submitted resume, in which she herself is named as a character reference.

From all accounts, the deputy SSA director of 14 years would have the country believe she failed to catch on that the resume contained false credentials and she simply assumed the truth of what Reshmi Ramnarine told her about obtaining a degree in information technology from the University of the West Indies (UWI).

Repeated calls to Browne, who is said to be known to the Persad-Bissessar Government, have gone unreturned. The deputy SSA director has also failed to respond to questions about her personal relationship with Ms Ramnarine or reports her choice of candidate for the top spy post was the declared whistle-blower to the Patrick Manning-sanctioned illegal wiretapping of civilians.

Ramnarine, a close friend of the Prime Minister's public engagement and policy adviser, Sasha Mohammed, was introduced to several people at a farewell bash for Mohammed at Trotters Restaurant as "the whistle-blower" in the SIA (Security Intelligence Agency) spy scandal which dominated the local media for several weeks.

In a dramatic Parliament production on November 12 last year, Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar lifted the lid on the sordid world of secretly conducted State spying, which violated the law and constitutional rights of citizens of this country. Then SSA spy chief Nigel Clement, who Persad-Bissessar identified as former prime minister Manning's main man of business, was fired in the ensuing furore over the clandestine activities of the State's spy apparatus.

Browne and another deputy director of the SSA, Trevor Keron Ganpat, were interviewed by the interministerial committee for the top spy post, according to sources with knowledge of the situation. Ganpat, a relative newcomer to the agency and an unknown to the Persad-Bissessar administration, was not viewed as a deserving candidate on the grounds that he was not familiar enough with the inner workings of the agency.

On January 10, Browne secretly submitted the Ramnarine nomination to the Prime Minister. The following day, January 11, Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar pushed through the Browne recommendation for an interim replacement to the spy director's chair at the NSC meeting, according to sources familiar with the matter. Two days later, on January 13, the Prime Minister pushed through ad hoc Cabinet Note 92, which made the case for Ramnarine's appointment for the top job.

The Prime Minister has not responded to requests from this newspaper for a comment on her role in the appointment process of Ms Ramnarine and is reported to have read her Cabinet the riot act at the February 10 meeting about leaks to the media and maintaining strict confidentiality about Cabinet's deliberations.

Last week, the Prime Minister's lieutenants in the Government seemed to have gotten the message, with several ministers repeating their leader's mantra that Ramnarine has resigned and it was now time to move on. They held that the Prime Minister had taken responsibility for the "misstep" made in the initial appointment, and it was now time to put "the story to rest".

No one, however, was willing to talk about the secret Government appointment process which placed the 31-year-old Ramnarine in the top spy job or the personal role the Prime Minister played in the appointment. "You are beating a dead horse. That is yesterday's news," was how one Government minister responded to questions about the process.

Government ministers were eager to talk, instead, about the new candidate, Colonel Albert Griffith, who has an impressive list of military accomplishments and academic credentials. On Friday, the Prime Minister, in formally presenting the Griffith candidacy for the top job, said a letter of invitation offering him the SSA appointment will be issued by the Ministry of National Security. Why this was not done in the Ramnarine case remains a mystery.

From all accounts, the Persad-Bissessar Government seems intent on selling what was a deliberate act as a "misstep" and/or an error and reluctant to provide details or even discuss the appointment process of Ramnarine, which appears to lead right back to the Prime Minister herself.

[~Vēġó~]

that too long to read at this hour......

[Rainman]

that too long to read at this hour......

True. Headline says it all though.

[rollingstock]

Investigative reporting at it's best.

[Humes]

Stay on de damn story.

[rollingstock]

She was only trying to return ah lil favour

[wagonrunner]

she related to de ramnarine boxer?...i find dey resemble

boidanboywhuyhutinkboidanboi

[eliteauto]

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/Sti ... 79113.html

Still at SSA, Reshmi takes a vacation
By Denyse Renne

Story Created: Feb 20, 2011 at 11:50 PM ECT

Story Updated: Feb 20, 2011 at 11:50 PM ECT

Former director of the Strategic Services Agency (SSA), Reshmi Ramnarine, remains employed at the agency.

However, Ramnarine, who tendered her resignation on January 22, is on vacation leave, sources say.

Sources said shortly after tendering her resignation to Minister of National Security Brigadier John Sandy, Ramnarine proceeded on immediate leave. It is not certain when or if she will return to work.

On January 14, Ramnarine, 31, was handed an instrument of appointment to head the SSA by then acting President Timothy Hamel-Smith, on a recommendation from Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar. One week after the appointment, and after a series of Express exclusives revealed she was unqualified and inexperienced for the job, Ramnarine resigned, saying her cover had been exposed.

What soon followed was an avalanche of criticism, with many in the Opposition questioning the criteria used for selecting Ramnarine. The Express, in its exposes, revealed that Ramnarine did not possess a BSc in Information Technology as was being claimed by the Persad-Bissessar-led administration and that Ramnarine embellished her resume.

During her leave, sources said, Ramnarine has been assigned round-the-clock private security and contrary to other media reports never left the country. Two heavily armed security guards have been assigned to guard her, sources said.

Last week, Persad-Bissessar announced in Parliament that interim head of the Special Anti Crime Unit of T&T, Col Albert Griffith, would oversee the transformation process of the SSA. Persad-Bissessar noted that Griffith "is a highly decorated military officer with 30 years experience in the armed services of our nation".

[rollingstock]

This just keeps getting better and better.

[ismithx]

dais ah real media person write dat? i not saying that i disagree, it just has a lot of biased/loaded judgments in there...

[De Dragon]

Loaded or not, our PM needs to come clean and level with the nation!

[nervewrecker]

Loaded or not, our PM needs to come clean and level with the nation!

x2.

ball is on her court now.

[nismodriver]

alyuh brave yes....she trollin' tuner to get terrorist like allyuh to jail in de new beetham high-security prison...or wuss yet..

She should trace my ip.

Surprise surprise mofo.

Traced !
Sorry sir, as you were....

[rollingstock]

^^^ Aye doh be on that dan