Op­po­si­tion MP Rod­ney Charles has called on the Prime Min­is­ter not to em­bar­rass the coun­try with his stance with re­gard to the BBC doc­u­men­tary "The Dis­placed"

In a state­ment on Tues­day, Charles said, "Do not em­bar­rass us - a UK PM can­not tell the BBC what to re­port and how it is done.

He said, "Clear­ly Row­ley does not un­der­stand that nei­ther Boris John­son, nor any­one else in the UK Cab­i­net, can ad­mon­ish the BBC on the ba­sis of not lik­ing what is be­ing re­port­ed. Free­dom of the press in most se­ri­ous coun­tries does not work that way.

It is not like the many Boards in T&T, in­clud­ing TTT, where the Cab­i­net ap­points the Board and can is­sue in­struc­tions on pain of be­ing fired if they refuse, as al­leged­ly oc­curred with Es­pinet, Denise Dem­ming, our Miss Uni­verse and oth­ers."

The Na­pari­ma MP point­ed out that the BBC was not state fund­ed, but rather re­lied on a year­ly li­cense fee paid by UK cit­i­zens.

"The BBC does not al­low ad­ver­tis­ing and there­fore can­not be dic­tat­ed to by busi­ness­es. The UK is not a dic­ta­tor­ship. The BBC is glob­al­ly known for its in­de­pen­dence and is pro­tect­ed from po­lit­i­cal in­ter­fer­ence. First­ly BBC has a high and wide­ly dif­fused re­gard for its past tra­di­tions in­clud­ing that of in­de­pen­dence and records of pub­lic ser­vice ex­cel­lence," said Charles.