Carisa Lee

Op­po­si­tion Leader, Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is un­able to ad­dress the press­ing is­sues af­fect­ing the coun­try and is call­ing on him to take the suf­fer­ing of the pop­u­la­tion se­ri­ous­ly.

In a press re­lease fol­low­ing the PNM's meet­ing in San Fer­nan­do on Thurs­day evening, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said at no time did the PM stand his ground to con­front the prob­lems ter­ror­is­ing cit­i­zens.

Ac­cord­ing to the Op­po­si­tion Leader, these in­clude mur­ders, rob­beries, high food prices, un­em­ploy­ment, cor­rup­tion and a crash­ing jus­tice sys­tem.

She says in­stead the PM chose to boast that the fir­ing of over 10,000 work­ers at Petrotrin was a suc­cess., blamed cit­i­zens for crime be­cause they were not re­port­ing to the po­lice, and cried about his hurt feel­ings con­cern­ing a doc­tor­ate.

Per­sad-bisses­sar said all the coun­try wit­nessed from him was a cow­ard­ly re­treat in­to vic­tim­hood and blame game rhetoric.

She said the UNC has of­fered an­ti-crime plans, eco­nom­ic trans­for­ma­tion plans, health­care plans, ed­u­ca­tion plans and rev­enue gen­er­a­tion strate­gies which he has re­peat­ed­ly re­fused to con­sid­er.