Kamla: Rowley’s statement insufficient

Opposition Leader Kamla Persad- Bissessar made this claim yesterday during a press conference at the Office of the Leader of the Opposition on Charles Street, Port-of-Spain. Persad-Bissessar convened the conference to discuss the spiralling crime situation and demand that Prime Minister Dr Rowley take “decisive action” to bring crime under control.

She also expressed displeasure with the fact that Rowley had not denounced Malcolm Nance’s claim of Trinidad and Tobago as “terrorist state.” However, while decrying Rowley’s failure to respond, one reporter pointed out that he had just received a press release from the Office of the Prime Minister, in which Rowley referred to Nance’s statement as “broad and simplistic”, and, “not supported by fact and ignores the robust and substantial national security cooperative partnership between Trinidad and Tobago and the United States...” The reporter read the PM’s statement aloud, but Persad-Bissessar was not impressed, saying that Rowley still failed to ask for a retraction.

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