MP Scotland: I'll serve in any capacity

PORT OF SPAIN South MP Keith Scotland said he was willing to serve in any capacity on Parliament's Joint Select Committee (JSC) on National Security.

Newsday contacted him about the vacancy arising when the JSC's former chairman Fitzgerald Hinds was made Minister of National Security in a Cabinet reshuffle after the death of Energy Minister Franklin Khan.

The JSC members are Scotland, Randall Mitchell, Nigel de Freitas and Ayanna Webster-Roy (Government), Dr Roodal Moonilal and Jayanti Lutchmedial (Opposition) and Paul Richards (Independent), with a new government-named elected MP due to be appointed to replace Hinds.

Scotland, a well-known criminal attorney, told Newsday, "Once the Honourable Prime Minister has asked me to serve - without in any way being presumptuous – in whatever capacity I am called on to serve with respect to the National Security JSC, I will do my best. I am already a member of the committee."

He said he had not been contacted and did not know when a new chairman would be named.