Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­ferred to the Prime Min­is­ter’s Ad­dress to the na­tion on Thurs­day as, “long on words but woe­ful­ly short on ideas.”

In a press re­lease, Per­sad-Bisses­sar wrote that Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s ap­peal to cit­i­zens at this time rings hol­low, es­pe­cial­ly on the same day when the high­est amount of deaths were record­ed.

On Wednes­day this coun­try crossed 2,000 deaths since the start of the pan­dem­ic in 2020.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar said the close to one-hour long ad­dress failed to pro­vide any hope or com­fort to cit­i­zens and has no plan to deal with the sit­u­a­tion.

She said since this pan­dem­ic be­gan the Gov­ern­ment’s pol­i­cy pre­scrip­tions have re­volved around three ar­eas: -

One, ask­ing cit­i­zens to “fol­low the sci­ence” but with­out pro­vid­ing any da­ta: two, con­grat­u­lat­ing them­selves with­out any jus­ti­fi­ca­tion and three—dis­miss­ing all crit­ics as “naysay­ers” or “un­pa­tri­ot­ic.”

Per­sad-Bisses­sar said judg­ing by Row­ley’s ad­dress to the na­tion, noth­ing is go­ing to change.

“It is un­ac­cept­able that the Row­ley led Gov­ern­ment is com­fort­able do­ing the same thing over and over and ex­pect­ing dif­fer­ent re­sults,” she wrote.

The Op­po­si­tion Leader sent prayers to peo­ple af­fect­ed by the pan­dem­ic and said thou­sands were con­cerned and wor­ried.

“Our na­tion sim­ply can­not go on like this,” she said.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar said sound lead­er­ship and de­ci­sive ac­tion are need­ed to mit­i­gate the cur­rent cri­sis.