'Traumatised in T&T'
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2010 8:24 am
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Political consultant Bernie Campbell is still traumatised by his experience in Trinidad and Tobago, says attorney Anand Ramlogan. And former diplomat Reginald Dumas says National Security Minister Martin Joseph must explain why Campbell was denied entry into this country on Thursday night.
Campbell, a political consultant, had arrived in T&T to help the United National Congress (UNC) with its 2010 General Election campaign when he was detained at Piarco International Airport, kept in immigration custody overnight and put on a plane back home on Friday.
Before leaving, Campbell, according to a UNC statement, said he was taken in a security vehicle to a hotel to stay overnight when the vehicle was stopped by an unmarked car, and he was questioned by unknown men. The security guard took him back to the airport, telling him he would be safe there, the statement reported Campbell as saying. Yesterday, Ramlogan, an attorney for the UNC, said in a telephone interview ’we have decided not to launch a legal challenge in the matter’.
Ramlogan said he had been in contact with Campbell.
’The guy is so traumatised, he does not want to come back in the country. He was verbally abused and racial comments were made to him,’ he said.
The US Embassy has asked Government for an explanation as to why Campbell was denied entry into T&T.
Political consultant Bernie Campbell is still traumatised by his experience in Trinidad and Tobago, says attorney Anand Ramlogan. And former diplomat Reginald Dumas says National Security Minister Martin Joseph must explain why Campbell was denied entry into this country on Thursday night.
Campbell, a political consultant, had arrived in T&T to help the United National Congress (UNC) with its 2010 General Election campaign when he was detained at Piarco International Airport, kept in immigration custody overnight and put on a plane back home on Friday.
Before leaving, Campbell, according to a UNC statement, said he was taken in a security vehicle to a hotel to stay overnight when the vehicle was stopped by an unmarked car, and he was questioned by unknown men. The security guard took him back to the airport, telling him he would be safe there, the statement reported Campbell as saying. Yesterday, Ramlogan, an attorney for the UNC, said in a telephone interview ’we have decided not to launch a legal challenge in the matter’.
Ramlogan said he had been in contact with Campbell.
’The guy is so traumatised, he does not want to come back in the country. He was verbally abused and racial comments were made to him,’ he said.
The US Embassy has asked Government for an explanation as to why Campbell was denied entry into T&T.
