Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has dis­missed claims by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar that the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment ad­min­is­tra­tion failed to sup­port the Spir­i­tu­al/Shouter Bap­tist com­mu­ni­ty, de­clar­ing that “talk is cheap”.

Speak­ing at the PNM’s Spir­i­tu­al Bap­tist/Shouter Lib­er­a­tion cel­e­bra­tion at the par­ty’s con­stituen­cy of­fice in Point Fortin, Beck­les said the State has pro­vid­ed sup­port for the faith through bud­getary al­lo­ca­tions and land grants.

Ref­er­enc­ing state­ments made in Par­lia­ment on Fri­day, she said the Prime Min­is­ter al­leged that the “PNM did noth­ing for the Bap­tist com­mu­ni­ty.”