THERE has been no development regarding the probe of last week’s attempted channa bombing of Acting Town Clerk Carol Sooba’s home, although the matter is being pursued by sleuths.

Sooba yesterday told this medium that the police have taken a report from her, and she is awaiting word on the progress of that probe.

She also said that security at her home and office remains intact, although persons have been trying to terrorize her with persistent threats.

Police reported that at about 01:30hrs on August 06 last, two Molotov cocktails were thrown onto the premises of acting Town Clerk Carol Sooba’s Duncan Street, Campbellville, Georgetown residence while she was at home with several relatives; and her security was also present when a dark coloured motor car pulled up in front of her house and someone hurled the two channa bombs into her yard.

The incendiary devices caused slight damage to the facade of Sooba’s two-storey wooden house, a PVC pipe in her yard was also scorched, and several window panes from the guard hut were shattered.

When this publication visited the scene last week Wednesday morning, shards of broken glass bottles littered the ground, and a visibly shaken Sooba greeted the media and offered a comment.

The acting Town Clerk believes this action was another well planned move to frighten her, since she was expected to make a court appearance that very day.

After a ruling from Chief Justice Ian Chang stated that Sooba was the de facto Town Clerk and she could remain in that position until her appointment was challenged by a quo warranto, Public Relations Officer of the Mayor and City Council (M&CC), Mr Royston King, went ahead and filed the quo warranto, subsequent to Sooba and himself approaching the Court of Appeal to quash the ruling of the Chief Justice.

The case was, however, adjourned to a later date.

This latest attack on Sooba came days after Mayor Hamilton Green had ordered Chief Constable Andrew Foo to pull security personnel from Sooba’s residence.

(By Michel Outridge)