Every Monday morning, the Prime Minister, his press secretary or the police will hold press conferences or they made press releases; informing the general public of death threats, that were made against the life of the Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines: Ralph E. Gonsalves. Of the many death threats that were made against the prime minister’s life, the shallow release never went into, the means by which such threats were made (letters, email, telephone, in person, via messenger or otherwise). It is quite interesting that no one was ever arrested or taken into to custody to be questioned in relation to these serious allegations against the head of Government of an independent state.
In this modern and technologically advance world, the degree holding Commissioner of Police or any member of his high profile team which was assigned to investigate these offences never came up a person of interest. As far as I know, the prime minister and the police did not even know by what means the threats were made. Thus making it impossible to detect or trace these threats to the person/people who “allegedly issued them.
Everyone knows, that a threat issue to an ordinary citizen is an offence that merits police involvement, in such case the offender or offenders are located and warned and if such continue, the offender or offenders may be summon before the court. We also know that a threat made to a diplomat is a very serious issue, and one can be arrested for issuing such. Now tell me; how serious is a threat of any kind that is made to a head of government? However, when such threats are issued and threathen to takes the life of the a head of State or head of government; such is even more serious and should be given top priority; as a matter of fact, such threaths are issues of national security and should take precedence.
May I remind you, that these death threats that were allegedly issued to Ralph Gonsalves, were issued, at a time in his tenor as head of government, when he was most popular with the people. Isn’t it strange that as of or just around August 2008 Ralph did not receive anymore threats against his life? How could this be? It is now that Ralph Gonsalves is at the point where he is most unpopular and despised even by the people who once loved and condone all of his ills. Isn't this the time that he should be getting the death threats by the thousands? However no one has time to send him any such threats.
There are two explanations for this and they are:
• No threats were ever issue to or against Ralph Gonsalves. The Prime Minister and his cronies made up these story and file false report to the police in oder to envoke the sympathy of the community; so their dishonest actions would be over looked, ignored or defended by the community. Please bear in mind, it is a crime to make a false Report or reports to the police and it matters not the nature of the report. Could it be, that this is the reason they never get a lead or even the shadow of a suspect.
• The threats that were being made against the Prime Minister's life were of a personal nature, had nothing to do with his office of Prime Minister and him mismanaging the affairs of the country.
If the threats in question, which were issued to Ralph Gonsalves, were issued as a result of a personal matter then he must know who was the person or the group that was responsible for issuing such threats. The questions that we ought to find answers for are: why were these threats issued? And why didn’t the police affect an arrest and take the offender or offenders before the court to answer associated charges?
I cannot see how the police are unable to track down and arrest a person or group that have been continually threaten the security and stability of the country. If you could have catch P John back then, why can’t you catch the culprits now?
At the time the threats were such a serious matter that Ralph saw it fit to invest over half of a million dollars to aquier a secure vehicle for his offical transportation, he also appointed a whole team of Special Service Unit (SSU) trained police officer to ensure his protection and to top it off; he had an out riders, who was to ensure, Ralph Gonsalves unobstructed movement around the country. A series of expensive security measure; that resulted from the threats that made the Prime Minister Gonsalves fear for his safety. Have the person or group who was responsible for issuers threats against the prime minister’s life, pack up and left? Did they migrate? or did the PM made peace with the offenders?
Common sense tells me, now the PM is at the ebb of his popularity, where the people at home and aboard cannot stand the man and where his colleagues across the Caribbean, out of courtesy, are forced to exhibit professional tolerance toward him should be the time the threat level should be high. However, from all reports, Ralph has been going around shaking hands, hugging fat women and kissing babies with little or no security. So once again I asked where are, where were or where is the threats and where have the threat and the offenders gone?
