The op­po­si­tion has hit back at Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley chal­leng­ing him to tell the coun­try which mem­ber of the Op­po­si­tion UNC is cur­rent­ly a se­nior of­fi­cial in his gov­ern­ment? 

It comes as a US Traf­fick­ing in Per­sons 2022 Re­port stat­ed, “Cor­rup­tion and of­fi­cial com­plic­i­ty in traf­fick­ing crimes re­mained sig­nif­i­cant con­cerns, in­hibit­ing law en­force­ment ac­tion, and the gov­ern­ment did not take ac­tion against se­nior gov­ern­ment of­fi­cials al­leged in 2020 to be in­volved in hu­man traf­fick­ing.”

Op­po­si­tion Leader, Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, is­sued a state­ment say­ing, “…Row­ley must take ac­tion against the se­nior of­fi­cials with­in his PNM gov­ern­ment who have been im­pli­cat­ed in this hu­man traf­fick­ing scan­dal. 

She added, “I call on Row­ley to treat the scourge of hu­man traf­fick­ing se­ri­ous­ly and to de­sist from us­ing such a hor­rif­ic crime to score cheap po­lit­i­cal points and dis­trac­tions, as this is not a jok­ing mat­ter.”