The Cab­i­net has es­tab­lished a team to con­duct a thor­ough au­dit of the records, ar­moury and stor­age fa­cil­i­ties at the Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­i­ment’s Cu­mu­to Bar­racks.

This fol­lows Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Fitzger­ald Hinds rais­ing the mat­ter of an al­le­ga­tion that 25,573 rounds of 5.56 am­mu­ni­tion had “dis­ap­peared” from the Cu­mu­to Bar­racks of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­i­ment.

Fol­low­ing this rev­e­la­tion, the Cab­i­net put to­geth­er a five-mem­ber team to con­duct the in­ves­ti­ga­tion:

Colonel (Re­tired) Lyle Alexan­der (Co-Chair­man)

Mr. Welling­ton Vir­gil - Re­tired As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice

Mr. Mar­tin Mur­rain - Re­tired As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice

Colonel (Re­tired) Michael Clarke

War­rant Of­fi­cer (Re­tired) Wayne Ngui

Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter, per Dr. Kei­th Row­ley's in­ter­ven­tion, the team will al­so in­clude two mil­i­tary of­fi­cers from CARI­COM coun­tries, one of whom will be the team’s co-chair.

The re­lease added, "These mem­bers will join from the Guyana De­fence Force, as agreed by His Ex­cel­len­cy Dr. Mo­hamed Ir­faan Ali, Pres­i­dent of the Co-op­er­a­tive Re­pub­lic of Guyana and the Ja­maica De­fence Force, as agreed by The Most Hon­or­able An­drew Hol­ness, Prime Min­is­ter of Ja­maica."

The Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty is al­so man­dat­ed to pro­vide the team with an ap­pro­pri­ate Sec­re­tari­at which will al­so in­clude one Se­nior Coun­sel and one Ju­nior Coun­sel.