Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is ac­cus­ing the Gov­ern­ment of at­tempt­ing to cre­ate a false nar­ra­tive about a “crashed econ­o­my” to put the pop­u­la­tion on ear­ly no­tice that it will not be de­liv­er­ing on its am­bi­tious elec­tion promis­es.

Speak­ing late on Tues­day evening dur­ing the de­bate on the mo­tion to adopt the re­port of the Stand­ing Fi­nance Com­mit­tee, Beck­les said the con­tri­bu­tions by gov­ern­ment mem­bers be­fore her re­mind­ed her of the lo­cal say­ing ‘tak­ing in front.’

“And what this gov­ern­ment is do­ing is tak­ing in front. Be­cause they know very well that hav­ing closed down and re­peal­ing the TTRA (Trinidad and To­ba­go Rev­enue Au­thor­i­ty) and every sin­gle mem­ber that has spo­ken here to­day, I heard the mem­ber of San Juan/Barataria say­ing that I be­ing a Min­is­ter of Plan­ning and not hav­ing any plans, this gov­ern­ment has pre­sent­ed ab­solute­ly no plans,” Beck­les claimed.