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Former Attorney General and former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Garvin Nicholas, is raising concerns about how intelligence was handled as he weighs in on the murder of Senior Counsel Dana Seetahal.

He shared his views on the TV6 Morning Edition.

More from Nicole M. Romany.
Transcript
00:00The former Attorney General tells us he's not satisfied with how intelligence was managed,
00:05pointing to what he described as a lack of coordination among security agencies,
00:10which may have led to conflicting information not being properly addressed.
00:15Coming out of the whole disclosure in Parliament was the issue of intelligence and how it's handled.
00:24Yes.
00:26I had an issue with how intelligence was handled.
00:31And because, and again without revealing too much, sitting in the National Security Council,
00:38I found that you had different agencies reporting intelligence that would have conflicted with one another,
00:48that there were agencies that didn't know, Lafant didn't know what the right hand was doing.
00:54Disconnect.
00:54He also questions the use of a state of emergency as a primary crime-fighting tool.
01:00Suggesting that other measures should have been explored before implementing such a step.
01:05So first of all, I do not think that states of emergency should be used as a crime-fighting tool.
01:13Okay.
01:14States of emergency should be used as last resort.
01:18And it is because there is an imminent threat of some kind that you want to hold.
01:25Intelligence and evidence gathering must always be the hallmark of policing.
01:32Nicholas further weighs in on the Prime Minister's position on CARICOM, highlighting the importance of regional relationships
01:39and their potential impact on Trinidad and Tobago's economic outlook.
01:44Your utterances, in fact, have actually caused the small and medium-sized business that depend on CARICOM trade to be
01:59jeopardized
02:00instead of actually trying to increase the potential for that market.
02:06Nicola M. Romany, TV6 News.
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