Trinidad Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissesar. - file
Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar says the state-owned Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT), as well as the Irish-owned Digicel, were "commanded" to open their facilities so that the Security Intelligence Agency (SIA) could engage in the illegal wiretapping of citizens.
"Do you remember there was a time in Trinidad when people used to say use a Digicel phone, don't use a TSTT phone... they were right," she told reporters.
Over the weekend, the prime minister said President George Maxwell Richards was among a list of prominent people, including politicians, trade unionists, journalists, and even sports personalities, whose phones had been illegally tapped by the SIA which was formed in 2005 by the then Patrick Manning administration.
Former national security minister Martin Joseph has distanced himself from the illegal activities of the SIA while Manning has told reporters he had no knowledge whose phones were being monitored by the intelligence agency that the present government said had been illegally established.
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