{"id":8856,"date":"2015-05-19T22:54:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T02:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8856"},"modified":"2015-05-20T07:07:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T11:07:51","slug":"integrity-commission-ends-its-emailgate-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=8856","title":{"rendered":"Integrity Commission ends its emailgate probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><I>By Anna Ramdass<br \/>\nMay 19, 2015 &#8211; <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/20150519\/news\/integrity-commission-ends-its-emailgate-probe\">trinidadexpress.com<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?tag=kamla-persad-bissessar\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/kamla2.jpg' width='150' height='100' border='0' class='alignleft' class='alignleft' alt='Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar' \/><\/a>Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar last night declared victory following the Integrity Commission&#8217;s termination of its investigation into emailgate.<\/p>\n<p>She added this vindication was proof Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley was unfit to lead Trinidad and Tobago.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIn a letter dated May 19, 2015, the Commission&#8217;s registrar Martin Farrell wrote to the Prime Minister&#8217;s attorney, Israel Khan, SC, stating that pursuant to Section 34 (6) of the act, the commission was &#8220;satisfied that there was no or insufficient grounds for continuing the investigation&#8221; into emailgate &#8220;and accordingly this investigation is hereby terminated&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Khan is the legal counsel for Persad-Bissessar and former attorney general Anand Ramlogan in the emailgate affair.<\/p>\n<p>In its letter to Khan, the Integrity Commission pointed out it was unable to disclose information pertaining to its investigation, cited Section 35 of the Integrity in Public Life Act.<\/p>\n<p><I><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/20150519\/news\/integrity-commission-ends-its-emailgate-probe\">Full Article : trinidadexpress.com<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n<p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.co.tt\/news\/0,211395.html\">Emailgate closed<\/A><br \/>\nThe Integrity Commission has decided to close the emailgate affair, leading Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to claim a major victory for her office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anna Ramdass May 19, 2015 &#8211; trinidadexpress.com Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar last night declared victory following the Integrity Commission&#8217;s termination of its investigation into emailgate. She added this vindication was proof Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley was unfit to lead Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,444,566,217,396,30,7,142,39],"tags":[977,610,144,60,1015,49],"class_list":["post-8856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt","category-integrity-commission-general-tt","category-opposition-party","category-parliament","category-peoples-partnership","category-pnm","category-politics","category-unc","category-usa","tag-emailgate","tag-express","tag-kamla-persad-bissessar","tag-keith-rowley","tag-politics","tag-tt-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8856"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8859,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8856\/revisions\/8859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}