PM Under House Arrest : Police Under Duress
Fitzgerald Hinds, in his first incarnation under the Patrick Manning administration, was largely a backbencher and his role as Junior Minister in National Security was one in which he seemed to revel more in the appearances since there was nothing he could fundamentally change even if he knew how to do it. Now, almost two decades later e ven as his boss, Prime Minister Keith Rowley sanctioned the passage of 50,000 careless Trinidadians to play in Tobago over the Easter weekend, Hinds , on the orders of Rowley and in his first edict as new National Security Minister has threatened to create special police squads for public health regulations to make citizens "feel it in their pockets", as a cover for the government’s role in the post Easter surge of cases. Masmen: Rowley and Hinds. Lets track backwards. On Carnival Tuesday 2006, I earned his anger- which he let me know through a third party by sending a message to me, after I took photos of him, wearing an afro wig and ba...