T&T: Where is Karl Hudson-Phillips when you need him?

"Leader of the Jamaat al Muslimeen Yasin Abu Bakr yesterday confirmed reports that he was at the Financial Concepts Ltd (FCL) Tuesday, hours after it was robbed of a hard drive which reportedly contained confidential financial information about government ministries and businesses.

"However, the Jamaat leader, in a telephone interview, refused to say what he was doing at the Chacon Street office.

“ 'I went to see somebody,' was all Bakr was prepared to say on the topic.

"Asked if he knew FCL’s chief executive officer, Daniel Lambert, Bakr said: 'What all you (reporters) want to know my business for?'

"Informed that there was a robbery at the company, Bakr said he was not aware and it was a good thing nobody died (during the robbery)."

All I want to know is this: what did Bakr know and when did he know it?

If one is to take this report as a verbatim account of the conversation between Bakr and the reporter, how did Bakr know that "nobody died"? If Bakr was unaware of the robbery as he said, then who told him nobody had died, if the reporter had not? If the reporter was not the first to inform Bakr about the robbery, then why did Bakr claim ignorance of it by saying that "he was not aware"? The point is, if the conversation between Bakr and the reporter is repeated in The Guardian verbatim, there are inconsistencies in Bakr's story that need to be accounted for.

Several years ago, Chalkie sang, "I fraid Karl. I fraid Karl. Cuz he eatin' like curry barb wire and dahl. You see." T&T needs somebody like Karl again.