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'Watchman' gets top UN position
Gregory Lal-Beharie glb@trinidadexpress.com
Monday, March 26th 2007
newly appointed: Wayne Hayde
Calypsonian Watchman, attorney-at-law and police officer, Corporal Wayne Hayde, has landed a top job with the United Nations, after working at some of the worlds hot-spots with the UN for the past nine years.
Hayde remained a police officer after being granted special leave in 1998, to join a UN team in Rwanda investigating the 1994 genocide of an estimated 800,000 people in 100 days. At the same time, he became a Canadian resident.
Corporal Hayde, who turned 50 last January, joined the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service in 1975, on the same day as Minister in the ministry of National Security Fitzgerald Hinds, who also became an attorney. They have remained good friends.
He returned to Trinidad on Monday to file for his retirement from the Police Service, and told the Express he credits his success to the training he received from the service here. He pointed out that he would willingly take a pay cut from his new job if invited to be this country's next Police Commissioner.
"Once it's understood that my experience and qualifications is equivalent or better than anybody they could get from a foreign country.
"The assumption should not be that because I was born here, I should be treated as having less ability," Hayde said of any opportunity he could get to serve the country again.
Hayde said he had put his calypso career on hold over the years. However, he said he was disappointed with his fellow calypsonians who had become biased.
"Everyone seems to have lost their voices. Calypsonian who would smash other parties seem to give one political party far more favours. It gives the impression you're one-sided."
Hayde has been appointed the UN's Chief of the Conduct and Discipline Unit for the Middle East region. He will be based in Cyprus.
Following his posting in Rwanda with the UN's International Criminal Tribunal, where he served as a witness support officer ensuring witnesses to the killings were given the necessary protection and support, he was posted to East Timor in 2000.
He said during his time there he was adviser to four police commissioners, two from Portugal, one from Canada and one from Australia. He also assisted in drafting regulations for the new police service there, and laws relating to firearms and road traffic regulations. Hayde said he also became the adviser to the East Timor prosecutor general and trained local prosecutors, especially in the dealing with transnational crime in human trafficking and terrorism.
Hayde left Trinidad yesterday.
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