Op­po­si­tion Leader Dr Kei­th Row­ley needs to fo­cus on the af­fairs of the PNM rather than that of the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship, says Hous­ing Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal. The min­is­ter, in an in­ter­view at the Bar­rack­pore East Sec­ondary School yes­ter­day, said so in re­sponse to com­ments made by Row­ley at the Red House on Mon­day.

Row­ley had said Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar was lead­ing the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship ti­tan­ic to a col­li­sion with the cit­i­zens of T&T. "But," Mooni­lal said, "my hum­ble ad­vice to Dr Row­ley is that he should re­al­ly con­cen­trate on his par­ty and the af­fairs in his par­ty be­cause he is now in a bat­tle with Mr Man­ning.

"Be­tween two of them, I think they are try­ing to re­arrange the fur­ni­ture on the up­per deck of the Ti­tan­ic."

Mooni­lal was the fea­ture speak­er at the 2011 grad­u­a­tion cer­e­mo­ny at the school. He urged stu­dents to re­mem­ber the val­ue of a prop­er ed­u­ca­tion and not to over bur­den them­selves with work.