T&T AG distances self from newspaper office search

Trinidad’s Attorney General, Anand Ramlogan has distanced himself from a police unit’s search of the Newsday newspaper offices in Port of Spain and one of its reporter’s home on Thursday.



He has described any such link as an “embarrassment”.



In a statement reported by the Trinidad Express newspaper, Ramlogan said he had “grave concern” about the search by the police Anti-Corruption Investigation Bureau (ACIB), which followed a complaint of the country’s Integrity Commission about government leaks to the media.



But he said he had no direct control or authority over the ACIB. While the Commission, chaired by the retired media magnate and former government minister, Ken Gordon said it was forced to request a police investigation into “systematic leakage” of information to the press, the attorney general described the search and seizure by ACIB officers as “unexplained” and “dramatic”.