Gail Alexan­der

Apol­o­gise!

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar last night called out Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Regi­nald Ar­mour, de­mand­ing they apol­o­gise to Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions Roger Gas­pard.

And Per­sad-Bisses­sar al­so slammed re­marks by Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo at last week's women's group launch at Par­lia­ment.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar did so at UNC’s Mon­day Night Re­port in San­gre Grande. She said she had a “lit­tle virus” but it wasn’t COVID-19.

Say­ing Row­ley had a “me­dia bash­ing" last Thurs­day, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said he's failed to an­swer im­por­tant ques­tions "sur­round­ing him­self and at­tacks he con­tin­ues to launch against the DPP." She said he de­flect­ed with the is­sue of ac­com­mo­da­tion for the DPP and she asked why se­cu­ri­ty wasn't checked be­fore the build­ing was rent­ed.

"He has to an­swer," she said.

Per­sad Bisses­sar claimed the "re­al plan" was to bait DPP Gas­pard in­to re­spond­ing to their un­war­rant­ed at­tacks; and the PM, AG and Chief Jus­tice had hoped DPP would re­spond in an in­ju­di­cious man­ner and "get on bad." She claimed they would have "then got­ten their pup­pet Pres­i­dent to ac­tion a probe" in­to the DPP's re­spons­es and seek to sus­pend him.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar claimed they could then "ap­point a pup­pet DPP" of their choice, as the PM has ve­to pow­er. "But the plan back­fired on them! The DPP didn't take the bait..." she said.

"The Prime Min­is­ter can­not back­track on his at­tack on the DPP now. I call on the Prime Min­is­ter and At­tor­ney Gen­er­al to apol­o­gise to DPP Gas­pard - I call them out!"

Re­peat­ing her claim of Gov­ern­ment be­ing afraid of "Nel­songate," Per­sad-Bisses­sar al­so claimed many PN­Mites are un­der probe lo­cal­ly and over­seas, and al­so al­leged Gov­ern­ment "wants to re­open cas­es the DPP closed."

She al­so called on Ar­mour to say if his of­fice is “hound­ing down” the DPP’s Of­fice try­ing to get the files on the Ram­lo­gan/Ramdeen mat­ter.

Per­sad- Bisses­sar, who al­so said the UNC is at­tacked as "un­pa­tri­ot­ic" when mem­bers don't at­tend events, added she won't be the sort of per­son who sits, grins and claps, since that was hypocrisy.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar heaped scorn on state­ments by Pres­i­dent Kan­ga­loo at the re­cent women's Par­lia­men­tary fo­rum.

She said Kan­ga­loo, "that pup­pet Pres­i­dent," in her first speech, said to put aside spite and grudges, but at the women's group launch, "She was cry­ing croc­o­dile tears about spite and grudges, say­ing peo­ple had abused her and Miss Brigid and no­body said any­thing."

"Hey! Where you liv­ing woman? How many times have they den­i­grat­ed me, at­tacked me, vi­cious­ly? Did I go on a plat­form to cry? No! I'm not afraid of any of them! In that in­au­gu­ra­tion, that pup­pet Pres­i­dent said for­get past spites and grudges and in her sec­ond speech, she com­plains about spites and grudges and for­gets about her own bi­ased and de­plorable be­hav­iour as Sen­ate Pres­i­dent! She for­gets the be­hav­iour of her own leader!"

Per­sad-Bisses­sar showed a video of cer­tain re­marks Row­ley's made.

"It was the most nasty and dis­gust­ing com­ments! But this la­dy, pup­pet Pres­i­dent comes to talk about who bad talk her!"

She said the women's group was set up to de­fend the PNM - not women's rights.

For­mer MP Joseph Toney mean­while called for bor­ough sta­tus for San­gre Grande, not­ing the area is the hub of north­east busi­ness.

"We want safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty, qual­i­ty health care, prop­er wa­ter sup­ply," he said, adding bor­ough sta­tus must be in UNC's Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment elec­tion man­i­festo. Toney said no­body be­lieved Row­ley's state­ment that he didn't at­tack the DPP. He added that the mat­ter con­cern­ing the DPP, if not han­dled "ma­ture­ly, del­i­cate­ly and con­sti­tu­tion­al­ly," has dev­ast­ing con­se­quences for the rule of law.

Sen­a­tor Damien Ly­der de­mand­ed to know if WASA’s busi­ness plan in­cludes cut­ting work­ers. He said sta­tis­tics showed 65,000 lost jobs un­der the PNM and now 126 Dig­i­cel work­ers are al­so be­ing re­trenched. Ly­der dis­missed Gov­ern­ment's claim of VAT re­funds "com­ing" as "Promis­es Nev­er Ma­te­ri­alise."

San­gre Grande cor­po­ra­tion chair­man Anil Juter­am al­so al­leged there's cor­rup­tion with state ac­qui­si­tion of cer­tain build­ings.