There’s an ongoing battle for ownership of the mega-million dollar newspaper, Newsday. The company launched by Daniel Chookolingo in 1993, is getting no media publicity because two years after its launch, the daily immediately became the fastest selling newspaper in Trinidad and Tobago outstripping the then 30-year old Trinidad Express and the mighty Guardian which was then over 75 years old. Both newspaper and their vast billion dollar media outfits have remained silent since the case was filed in the High Court in 2014.While Newsday’s up-to-date value remains shrouded, there was a valuation done a decade ago which put its worth at over $200 million dollars. Sources close to Mr Chookolingo says this is a bogus value which was given by the Steve Castagne controlled board to buy out minority shareholders to gain full control of his company.
CALL FOR A C.O.E. AND CRACKDOWN INTO CRIMINALITY BY A VICIOUS GANG THAT CONTROLS THE T&T STATE AND ALL MAJOR INSTITUTIONS.
Goes by the name Sheriff
Today, the web site calls on the powers that be, the political directorate, the A.G., the Commissioner of Police and the DPP, to launch an immediate investigation into a Super White-Collar Port of Spain gang that has taken virtual control of every institution in this country through the use of spying programs he personally got ordered using his “connections” in the current PNM administration and the past UNC administration. The main software program is called Pegasus which is an Israeli made program. This program is so all intrusive that it was just outlawed by the U.S. Government for use even by the CIA.
Sheriff as he is known by his friends and his mostly crooked ‘business’ associates, has positioned himself in the affairs of almost every elements of the State apparatus in order to cash in on all manner of State largess through
corrupt means. He’s now known as the facilitator for anyone who wants to get things done in T&T, if the price is right.
He would proudly state the NAR and UNC governments that emerged were aberrations and were just as corruptible, as he boasts a chain was only as strong as its weakest link.
He proudly claims to have access to P.M. Dr Rowley and one of the top men in PNM, Mr Steve Castagne. No one knows Castagne’s exact relationship with Sheriff but many claim they see each other regularly.
Sheriff entrenched himself like no one before him by using traditional methods like spying, tracking devices, bugs, force, telephone tapping and the like. Then he was quick to take full advantage of the new digital technologies as they merged complete with features that could monitor emails, Whatsapp, and everything online. This gave a new lease on life on this malicious and insidious form of corruption. He is known to be especially ruthless with the unprecedented ability to leverage anyone is society. The weapon of choice is a super powerful spy program called Pagasus which is now being replaced by an even more powerful spy program called Phantom. It has been purchased legally by many countries around the world ostensibly to fight terrorism and almost get his ‘job’ done. Sheriff tells certain people he is well connected to the local mafia and elements of the Lodge in order to strike far and compliance. The primary use of Pegasus is to manipulate elements of the State through corrupt officials therein, to do the private bidding of the crooked one percent, mostly the Lodge.
We do concede that a small part of the One Percent is still not connected with crookedness that is generally associated with the Lodge. The purchase of Pegasus itself was suggested by him and when bought was once housed in National Operations Centre (NOC) before being moved to a secret location away from the eyes of low level TTPS officers. It is manned and operated by the crème de la crème in National Security apparatus with deep ties to Sheriff. It is worth noting here that NOC software can also track you by voice (using Voiceprint technology) so it doesn’t matter what phone you may use to avoid detection. The US Government in January 2022 banned the use of Pegasus and Phantom programs by their own spy agencies because of its virtual unlimited power that can secretly spy and infiltrate even U.S. government institutions ….the bosses of the C.I.A . One of the useful and powerful features is its ability to use the victim’s built-in microphone and camera in their own phone even while in ‘standby’ mode. It can read ‘password protected’ files. It appears that Sheriff and his organisation now control this program in T&T and Sheriff now have more spying, surveillance and destructive capability than even the mighty CIA doesn’t possess anymore. One month ago Apple iPhone sued Pegasus to stop them from spying on their clients phones. Samsung has not done that yet.
With the super spying software, Sheriff’s dirty organisation and his Lodge and mafia clients have been able to control and direct many aspects of life in T&T while staying in the background and invisible to the general public. One of his specialties is his ability to set the national agenda by a variety of ways. His method of targeting his victims is very varied and he executes the rules of his playbook:
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They use the various media friends either at ownership level or through the senior editors, hosts and columnists, letters the editor and so on, to drum up support to get issues ‘in the public domain’ which spawns a new level of awareness. Once in the public domain, that national attention allows the various authorities to get involved without suspicion of a secret agenda. Authorities like the TTPS, DPP, and Government Ministries. Depending on the public outcry and level of support, they can get their personal legislative agenda put into motion by their lackeys and associates in government who can now implement as though they are doing the people’s business.
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Use the spying software to spy on key people they want to target (their victims) and their associates and family to get their assistance in the first instance. These associates of the victim unwittingly help Sheriff implement the agenda by a series of lies and or half-truths to undermining the target.
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The infiltration of key police personnel, journalists, senior government employees in the ministries (where they want lucrative contracts) like the P.S. and judicial officers.
It is known that Court of Appeal, Justice Andre des Vignes (who died in January 2022) refused to cooperate with the dictates given to him in 2019, and was said to be forced off the bench into early retirement. Tribute is paid to des Vignes for showing testicular fortitude in the face of illegal ‘instructions.’ Former Justice des Vignes is a patriot and a hero to all of T&T and must be recognised one day when the current administration in the Judiciary is no more. More of this will become public later on. Many other judges have been marginalised in similar ways. Besides Judges, cooperating attorneys are given big time government briefs. Deborah Peake is the latest prime example. Other third grade attorneys are given plumb appointments. There are hundreds of board appointments and legal secretaries that the Government has at its disposal and most are called ‘independent’ so as not to tarnish the appointees.
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Special mention must be made of the infiltration of the opposition. Via use of the same Pegasus, they did up dirt on the top leaders in the party. Like other targets, they find out their most intimate secrets to use as leverage. Most of them have outside mates and love children which, in most cases, are enough to control them by a threat to expose that relationship. If it’s an important target, a ‘set up mistress’ will be arranged to blackmail the target. Of course, it goes without saying; exposure of any past corruption while the UNC was in office is the best ammunition. In fact it is known that some in the last Government have been silenced for their corrupt ways for fear of exposure and prosecution. It is usually the preferred option to use the threat of exposure than to actually expose the corruption since T&T is a 9-day wonder. The general public forgets about it after 9 days and you can always expect a bigger corruption scandal from the Government of the day. The corrupt opposition members are ‘instructed’ not to resign as if they resign, Sheriff, the Lodge and mafia lose leverage of the UNC. Police officers especially are treated in the same way; threaten to expose them, as almost all officers have wealth they cannot explain. These officers are more valuable tools to Sheriff inside the TTPS than outside.
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Use of Customs and Bureau of Standards against business people to unnecessarily delay and add charges to their business. The BIR and other State agencies are key ways to threaten targets. Bankers, pivotal in the Lodge network, also play their part by withholding Forex and possibly withdrawing other facilities. Trevor Hosten is a good example of this pressure where the bank closed him down.
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If all that fails, they go to friends, family, employees and business contractors. The preferred course of action is to “persuade” and pay-off these people to infiltrate and or harm you. Infiltrate your home with stuff like electronic devices. The other way they do it is to spike your food or drink with poisonous material that would make you look like you had a stroke but in reality its chemicals placed in your food or drink. If they are unable to persuade your friends or family them with money they expand it to threats to kill or kidnap their spouse, children, parents etc, etc. There’s a well-known case of a computer technician named Shawn, who was threatened and then paid to poison the drinks of his client during a home visit to fix his computer. The threats centred on his newly wed wife and baby. Shawn complied as most people do in such circumstances.
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An equally popular method is to introduce a toxic substance (chlorine or formaldehyde are popular and usually undetectable) into your air conditioning unit while servicing. Just like the Shawn example, your technician is instructed to add the toxin while servicing of either your car or home AC units. You get violently sick with serious consequences most likely followed by death.
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Then there’s the automobile ‘accident’ of the non-compliant victim. Your car is hit in a fake accident. When you come out to investigate the accident and any number can play. People are advised to drive to the nearest police station and report any suspicious accidents instead of coming out in the street and getting killed. Having a car camera is a good tool to have for people who feel threatened. They have also been known to send a fake ‘cable’ repairman to your home to spike your water tank etc while you are out. A seemingly bona fide repairman rarely raises suspicion even by prying neighbours.
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When all fails, you can expect a violent response from Sheriff who is assisted by his main secretary, Ms Rampaul. History tells us she will do anything for a few dollars and some expensive cookies that she’s known to consume when she was one of Calder Hart’s confidants. Calder Hart is the man who was accused of mismanaging tens of billions of the State’s assets and refused to attend a Commission of Enquiry (COE) to account. Ms Rampaul is thought to be his Power of Attorney (POE) in Trinidad to safeguard his asset in the jurisdiction. For all we know Calder Hart is part and parcel of this criminal secret enterprise run by Sheriff and Ms Rampaul. During the COE, Sheriff had cause to seriously warn the UNC when they were thinking of making an amendment to the COE that would jail persons who refused to attend hearings or cooperate with the COE. Sheriff is just as brazen as Calder Hart as he is known to target hardened criminals who his organisation sees as competing against theirs… and brag about it. That’s the audacity and mafia blood in him.
So, to get back on track, if Sheriff cannot deal with his intended target in one of his non-violent methods, he will arrange a lethal robbery and have the police come up with one of their usual bogus stories which the media will gobble up. Special officers are dispatched and are referred to as the ‘Clean-Up Crew.’
The end result is that he will tarnish and destroy virtually anyone for profit or fun but his motives are about power and amassing huge sums of money. He is now so powerful he can now be said to control every aspect of the government and opposition via tapping, hacking and tracking their every move and conversation which usually turns up something dirty… even if it’s a mistress and or love child and that’s usually enough. That’s the way of the digital world. The passage of the Interception of Communications Act of 2010, did little or nothing to solve this activity especially since it did not provide for a way to uncover illegal activity, only to punish people when the evidence was before the courts. We now know that even Judges and the subject of such interception and judges too have ‘dark secrets’. Many Judges also have their perverted weaknesses too. Besides those weaknesses, with few exceptions, judges look for post-retirement judicial appointments etc. Commission of enquires, various boards (see Judith Jones 2022 appointment to the PSC) and some for the ultimate prize, the appointment as the President of the Republic of T&T. It appears that right now, Sheriff can appoint whoever he wants as President as he is sure to get the Government and the Opposition to go along, so perverse and perverted is the unelected empire he built with the active participation of the mafia, lodge and the One Percent.
Sheriff is known to have his own ‘war room’ with the most powerful computers and hacking software which deploy the latest algorithms (special manipulative programs) to infiltrate the army of mindless followers who believe everything they see on social media and internet. A major part of their social media campaign is to keep the country divided. Using the Tobago card keeps Tobago alienated and the use of the race bogey is pivotal to their Machiavellianism, manipulative and totally devoid of morality. His is a mini version of the Trump machinery that effectively corrupted the Republican Party and tried to hijack the legally elected US Government. Sheriff can show the Republicans a thing or two, how to micro manage the whole process. The operation so big and complex, that data is archived and stored by subject for potential activity whenever necessary. The office is said to be located in the Woodbrook area with directions coming from Maraval.
When ever asked about his ‘activities’ he would tell people that he is an ‘independent operator’, and ‘no one can make him do anything he doesn’t want to do’ without admitting or denying anything untoward.
Police know of him very well but he is well protected by senior men in the TTSP. Or should it be they protect and pay senior people in the TTPS. The late superintendent Cooper was one of the boys. The one man who remained ‘untouchable’ in the TTPS was former COP, GG. In fact, GG had all the information to expose and prosecute Sheriff and his cohorts but mistakenly believed that that was enough to get another appointment as COP. Since his removal as COP, GG openly stated he has information to bring down big people in society. Notably, when he was in office never attempted to charge any of these criminals for whatever reason. Now that he is no longer COP with the certain level of protection that position offered him, he fears for his life since like any other hapless citizen, he’s at the mercy of Sheriff and his gang. GG will surely know that while Sheriff and his organisation have the ability to interrupt and obstruct any lawful means of bringing them down, he will equally know that they employ an array of hit men to carry out their various agendas whatever that suits them or become necessary. The late PM, Patrick Manning, knew all about Sheriff and many people who knew the story felt that Manning was referring to Sheriff and his gang when he talked about Mr. Big. Even Manning was out of his depth in dealing with Sheriff. Sheriff had become too big and this was one of the reasons that he called a snap election in 2010, to put the cuffs on Sheriff since it’s mostly State resources that are used by him to carry out his illegal activities and eventually undermine the State itself. Mr. Manning saw that and after his removal as P.M., told the nation and Dr. Rowley that they should beware of who to take advice from. Sadly, the UNC needs to tell the nation why it has not raised this spying software issue (and Sheriff Gang) in Parliament on put it in the public domain and seek to have it banned like what the U.S. did. There are those in the UNC that preach loyalty to the party and country but are not to be trusted. It’s is said that MP Dinesh Rambally knows this very well. Just maybe he is too spineless to tell all.
It seems that the only people who can do that are the CCN Group, minus their i95 division who are too demented for words. The Amar 104.7 station is an alternative if they can lay off the corny jokes every morning. Amar will be smart to hire Skippy Barrington to liven up the morning program, even though it’s alleged that Skippy is prepared to work for anyone if the price is right. He currently works for the One Percent on an internet related program that was specifically designed to silence his growing voice.
It is thought that not even legislation like the Anti-Gang Legislation can stop Sheriff. In fact, with his array of methods, he behaves holier than thou and welcomes it so that his (potential or perceived) competitors can be jailed. His aim is to perpetuate his criminal gang business and possibly even pass it on to their children. He doesn’t even care when people talk about him in derogative terms, he states that ‘every ass can bray.’ Talk doesn’t bother him.
Sheriff’s organisation is truly entrenched and nothing short of a major legal intervention can stop him. If action is taken now by the powers it is possible to stop this madness before many more powerful people are destroyed. He most probably qualifies as the man who’s most responsible for destroying T&T.
But Sheriff must remember that all those people who followed instructions from the Third Reich, (now superseded by the lodge and mafia) unsuccessful pleaded that they were simply carrying out Hitler’s instructions during the Nuremberg trials. They were hanged for crimes against humanity. Is that what awaits these Neo-Nazis or Neo Massa and hopefully Sheriff.