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Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar is calling on three police officers assigned to the Professional Standards Bureau (PSB) to tell the truth about the “abduction” of firearms dealer Brent Thomas who was arrested in Barbados and retuned to TT last year on a military plane.

On the 25th of April last, a decision was given in the High Court of Trinidad and Tobago (TT) by Justice Devindra Rampersad in the matter of Brent Thomas v The AG of TT and the Director of Public Prosecutions. In that decision, Justice Rampersad made reference to what he termed the “abduction” of Mr Thomas in Barbados on the 5th day October 2022 and later in his decision, he characterised the circumstances attending Mr Thomas’s return to Trinidad from Barbados, as being unlawful.

THE Barbadian Attorney General says gun dealer Brent Thomas was not 'abducted' from Barbados last year but he admits the officers had 'fallen short of the law' during an operation where Thomas was arrested and returned to Trinidad.

THE Barbadian Attorney General says gun dealer Brent Thomas was not "abducted" from Barbados last year but he admits the officers had "fallen short of the law" during an operation where Thomas was arrested and returned to Trinidad. In a statement in the Barbadian Parliament yesterday, AG Dale Marshall detailed the involvement of the Barbados

(Stock Image) Ministerial Statement by Attorney  General and Minister of Legal Affairs Dale Marshall, on the matter of the involvement of the Barbados Polic ...

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Recognising that illegally imported guns remain the weapon of choice for criminals in the Caribbean, the US government and Caricom have joined forces to clamp down on weapons entering the region.