Video on Facebook page threatens Trinidad and Tobago PM
August 29th, 2011 - 5:01 pm ICT by IANS
Port-of-Spain, Aug 29 (IANS) A video has been posted on a Facebook page threatening Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persaad-Bissessar, said an official.
Attorney General, Senator Anand Ramlogan, told the media here that an internet video was posted on his Facebook Page, with apparent threats to the life of the prime minister, as well as obscene language and potentially slanderous statements.
“It is a matter of grave concern and I have asked that the video be forwarded to the Commissioner of Police, Dwayne Gibbs,” he said.
The video that runs for three minutes and 48 seconds was posted on YouTube and later distributed through Facebook.
President George Maxwell Richards had Aug 21 declared a state of emergency in this oil-rich republic following a spate of murders and other serious criminal activities.
A nationwide curfew is in effect from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m.
In one night alone, seven people were murdered in the northern and eastern parts of the country.
In the past week, 684 people were apprehended, some of whom are gang leaders who are involved in supplying drugs from Colombia and other Latin American countries for transhipment to US, and other countries.
So far, some 272 murders have been reported for 2011.
Indian-origin Persad-Bissessar is the first woman to become prime minister in May 2010.
This country’s population is made of some 44 percent of people of Indian extraction whose forefathers came from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar between 1845 to 1917 to work on the sugar plantations.
(Paras Ramoutar can be contacted at paras.r@ians.in)
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