Housing Minister and Castries Central MP Richard Frederick has sought to clear the air following widespread public speculation surrounding his brief interaction with police on Thursday, insisting he has “nothing to fear” and denying any wrongdoing.
Speaking on his Can I Help You programme on Thursday night, Frederick confirmed that police officers arrived at his residence earlier in the day and requested that he accompany them to the police station for questioning in connection with an ongoing police matter.
“I was greeted, sadly, by a barrage of police officers at my house this morning,” Frederick said. “I asked why. They told me. I cooperated with them. They did what they had to do and told me they needed to see me at the station. I accompanied them to the police station.”
The minister said that after learning of the allegations being investigated, he remained confident because he knew he had done nothing wrong.
“When I heard of the allegations, I knew in my heart of hearts… Richard has nothing to fear,” he stated.
Frederick declined to discuss the details of the matter, saying he did not want to compromise the ongoing police investigation.
“I don’t want to go into everything because obviously the police are conducting their investigations, and I don’t want in any way, shape or form to compromise the integrity of the investigations,” he said.
However, he strongly rejected any suggestion that he had crossed certain personal boundaries.
“What I do know is this man you see there, call me what you want, call me this, call me that, but there are certain things I don’t cross boundaries on – never and never will…. I have five daughters,” the minister said.
During the interview, host Albert Daniels noted that police had been investigating reports involving the minister. Frederick acknowledged this before reiterating his confidence in the investigative process.
“I feel good because one of the things you never want to do is interfere. Let the police do the investigations and let them be satisfied that they have conducted their investigation,” he said.
Frederick’s comments came after reports circulated on Thursday alleging that a senior government official had been taken into police custody. Earlier that day, Police Commissioner Verne Garde declined to confirm or deny whether a senior government official had been arrested, saying only that justice applies equally to every individual and that no one is above the law.
“When I heard of the allegations, I knew in my heart of hearts… Richard has nothing to fear,”
So you had to hear the allegations first and then decide not to be fearful. Which suggests there are other things you might be fearful of speaking to the police about?
Nothing to fear. There’s naked pictures of him on a bed circling social media. I am quite confident that’s not from his wife’s phone. If you want to be a dirty bugger setting no standards that’s fine but stay out of politics. It’s disgusting
Royal St. Lucia Police Commissioner Verne Garde has declined to confirm or deny reports why Richard Frederick was briefly detained by the incompetent and corrupt goons he dispatched to arrest him.
Common sense, and protocol, would dictate that a government minister well known to the public, whom the police would need to question on any matter does not warrant a visit to a police station; any experienced professional and ethical investigator, mindful of his rank, would simply knock at their target’s door and ask the questions they seek, soliciting only a yes or a no from the person in question.
The motives by those corrupt and incompetent Royal St. Lucia Police “so called” Police investigators are obviously politically suspect, ill-defined and very suspicious.
At the end of the day, Chief Verne Garde is the problem, as he utilizing his corruption and power to operate on behalf of the SLP government headed by PM Phillip Jean Pierre to ostracize and alienate minister Richard Frederick from the political scene altogether.
The mega question is why is Phillip Jean Pierre so afraid of Richard Frederick? As we noted last year at a meeting of politicians, PJP was clearly intimidated by Frederick; we wonder how much incriminating evidence he possesses about Garde’s corrupt operation, all ordered by Pierre, and whether he intends to deliver it to outside law enforcement agencies; Stay tuned.
Why would any honest attorney (in St. Lucia, a species of bird as rare as the Amazona versicolor) decline to comment on the specifics of an investigation, but instead begin a preemptory defense campaign by taking an excuse (“…certain things I don’t cross boundaries on – never and never will…. I have five daughters”) to the court of public opinion; an excuse which fuels speculation about the investigation’s specifics (pedophilia or gross bodily harm against a female)?
The answer to the question above? An attorney whose legal scholarship has been too superficial, too stunted towards the accumulation of wealth (instead of the dispensation of justice), that he/she never got the benefit of one of St. Jerome’s quotes: “dum excusare credis, accusas” (“while you think you are excusing yourself, you are accusing [yourself]”).
Lol…it’s funny how a woman will sabotage a man’s entire existence once he stops giving her the perks she once enjoyed.
Richard could have continued his perverted ways with his equally perverted women, but he should have never dipped into government funds
The Day Everyone Started Asking: “What Did They Both Know?”
It remains one of the most talked-about moments in Saint Lucian politics.
Sometime during the heated 2006 election campaign, after the Castries Central by-election but before the general election later that year, KDA and RF crossed paths outside the temporary Parliament building following a sitting of the House.
According to veteran journalist RW, a reporter asked the two politicians to shake hands for a photograph.
Instead, what followed became part of Saint Lucia’s political history.
KDA reportedly reminded RF about comments that had been made against him and remarked that the two of them both knew what he was talking about.
RF didn’t hesitate. He fired back with the line that people still quote today:
“You know that I know what you know that I know.”
From that moment, the phrase took on a life of its own.
For years, Saint Lucians have debated what it really meant. Some believed it was nothing more than political gamesmanship. Others were convinced it hinted at information that both men understood but neither was prepared to discuss publicly.
The exchange has been repeated countless times on radio talk shows, in bars, on street corners and across social media. It has become one of those political moments that almost everyone remembers, even if opinions differ on what was actually being said.
Nearly twenty years later, the famous exchange still sparks discussion whenever people look back at one of the most dramatic periods in Saint Lucia’s political history. Whether it was simply a clever political comeback or something more has remained a subject of debate ever since. Today many now understand. Who was the courier? Who was the love interest? Who was the cousin?
THE POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK IN SAINT LUCIA
For decades St. Lucia Labor Party (SLP) and United Workers Party (UWP) have both engaged in vote buying with public funds, more recently using social welfare money contributed by the country’s Citizenship by Investment (CIP) program. Both political parties have repeatedly deceived the voting public by making unfulfilled promises of better economic, social, and security conditions for the population. More disturbingly, once either party achieved power, and was installed in office, they have utilized the crooked and incompetent Royal St. Lucia Police force as their henchmen, to further their vindictive their respective revenge, greed, and to achieve shady goals.
The unfolding scandal involving the arrest of Saint Lucia Housing Minister RICHARD FREDERICK, who allegedly wrote thousands of dollars of checks drawn on a government social services agency account, from funds improperly forwarded without specific designation of use, and subsequently spent without any audit or supervision whatsoever, should not come as no surprise to external intelligence and law enforcement agencies with documented evidence of this island nation’s political elite.
Assuming Richard Frederick engaged in the use of public funds for sexual services, as has been alleged, it is only fair and prudent for the Office of Prime Minster Phillip J. Pierre to order a comprehensive investigation into those high-ranking members of the Royal St. Lucia Police Force historically involved in sex trafficking, guns, and drug trafficking. Foreign Intelligence agencies possess electronic evidence and covert HUMIT intelligence of high-ranking members of the Royal St. Lucia Police Force engaging and supporting a sex traffic network out of the Dominican Republic into Martinique, then transporting the victims via go-fast boats to safe houses at the north end of the island of St. Lucia. The same corrupt members of law enforcement in St. Lucia have been photographed on numerous occasions entering and leaving the same three safe houses for the purpose of receiving free sexual services.
Remember that Oliver Gobat British citizen was shot and killed at Cap Estate in 2014, in the north end of the island. To date, police Chief Verne Garde has refused to arrest and prosecute the known murderer, who has been guaranteed protection by Garde and his corrupt gang of officers.
To better understand how both political parties have and will continue to uses Richard Frederick as their whipping boy, fall guy or boogie man, follow me here; when the Phillip J Pierre/Verne Garde gang of corrupt goons run out of false accusations against Richard Frederick, rest assure they will pin the JFK assassination on him, just as the SLP has previously falsely accused him of drug trafficking. Some free advice to Richard Frederick: get out of Phillip J Pierre’s snake pit while you still have a voice, and legs to travel.