THE KAWALSINGH PUZZLE

THERE is raging speculation about the reason for Roger Kawalsingh clinging onto his membership on the dysfunctional Police Service Commission (PSC).  

There is conjecture that Kawalsingh is holding on at the behest of a senior government minister, the one whose luxury vehicle he is quite acquainted with. 

Kawalsingh is the only PSC commissioner sticking with the tarnished Chair Bliss Seepersad. 

The much-criticised Seepersad is known to have been politically manipulated into suspending the incumbent Police Commissioner, a decision that has since been rescinded. 

There is speculation that Kawalsingh has, so far, declined to resign for fear of upsetting leading government officials. 

He may be harbouring ambitions of leading a reconstituted PSC, some are theorising. 

Apart from the Kawalsingh puzzle, there are related matters of national concern. 

The silence of the Law Association on the legal impasse is one source of rumour and assumptions. 

There are calls for Attorney General Faris Al Rawi to take the political fall for the fiasco, but Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley has attempted to tone down the matter by describing it as “an error.” 

Further, there is keen interest in who would be named to the PSC, and whether Griffith would pursue his legal claims. 

Most of all, the country is anxious to see who would be named as Police Commissioner at the end of the political and legal mess.