{"id":9756,"date":"2016-10-14T04:28:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T08:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=9756"},"modified":"2016-10-16T18:32:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T22:32:07","slug":"police-probe-ordered-on-ags-children-gun-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=9756","title":{"rendered":"Police probe ordered on AG&#8217;s children gun issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/teens_with_guns2.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"252\" alt=\"Images which surfaced online allegedly showing a cabinet minister\u2019s relatives with high-tech weapons\" class=\"size-medium\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Images which surfaced online allegedly showing a cabinet minister\u2019s relatives with high-tech weapons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><I>By Renuka Singh<br \/>\nOxctober 14, 2016 &#8211; <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/20161013\/news\/police-probe-ordered-on-ag8217s-children-gun-issue\">trinidadexpress.com<\/A><\/I><\/p>\n<p>Acting Police Commissioner Harold Phillip has ordered an investigation into how the children of Attorney General Faris al-Rawi came to be holding high-powered military weapons.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe Express also understands here is no written police record that Al-Rawi received any death threats that prompted the gun training of his two young children.<\/p>\n<p>While Al-Rawi has not yet confirmed that the pictures are of his children, both Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and the Defence Force, in their respective statements, have linked the children to Al-Rawi.<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadexpress.com\/20161013\/news\/police-probe-ordered-on-ag8217s-children-gun-issue\">Full Article : trinidadexpress.com<\/A><\/p>\n<p><BIG><B>Time for full story on teens with guns<\/B><\/BIG><\/p>\n<p><I>Published: Saturday, October 15, 2016<\/I><\/p>\n<p>EXTRACT:<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately what we have heard so far from the Attorney General and Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley are statements which deflect from the possible illegality of the acts, not admitting to anything, a frontal attack on MP Roodal Moonilal\u2014who claimed he did what he had to do\u2014and unsubstantiated allegations against Defence Force personnel.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the senior public affairs officer of the Defence Force Major Al Alexander is more forthcoming. Major Alexander said the AG\u2019s family members \u201cwere not involved in the training exercise; the purpose of them being there was for them to understand in particular emergencies what is done.\u201d Further, apparently explaining why the weapons were placed into the hands of the teenagers, Major Alexander compared it to when exhibitions are held by the Defence Force and there is the curiosity of someone wanting to hold and feel a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was really to remove the fear and apprehension,\u201d said the officer. And \u201cwe allowed them to hold it, the gun,\u201d he suggests.<\/p>\n<p>The difficulty there is whether such action is legal and who has to take responsibility if the act of handing the weapons to teenagers is not legal.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/editorial\/2016-10-14\/time-full-story-teens-guns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Renuka Singh Oxctober 14, 2016 &#8211; trinidadexpress.com Acting Police Commissioner Harold Phillip has ordered an investigation into how the children of Attorney General Faris al-Rawi came to be holding high-powered military weapons.<\/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":[1,186,178,30,180,7],"tags":[85,610,922,1223,1224,60,1015,49],"class_list":["post-9756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt","category-law","category-media","category-pnm","category-police","category-politics","tag-abuse","tag-express","tag-faris-al-rawi","tag-guns","tag-harold-phillip","tag-keith-rowley","tag-politics","tag-tt-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756","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=9756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9758,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756\/revisions\/9758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}