For­mer UNC MP Ani­ta Haynes-Al­leyne has is­sued a strong con­dem­na­tion of the Gov­ern­ment and her for­mer par­ty, warn­ing that Trinidad and To­ba­go is be­ing gov­erned by “ab­sent lead­er­ship” sup­port­ed by “syco­phan­tic un­der­lings” and urg­ing cit­i­zens not to be afraid to chal­lenge au­thor­i­ty when they be­lieve some­thing is wrong.

In a pub­lic state­ment on so­cial me­dia on Sun­day night, Haynes-Al­leyne, who has not spo­ken pub­licly on po­lit­i­cal de­vel­op­ments since the April 28, 2025, Gen­er­al Elec­tion, ar­gued that the con­cerns she and oth­ers raised dur­ing the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’s in­ter­nal elec­tions two years ago are now be­com­ing ap­par­ent on a na­tion­al scale.

“We are see­ing the same ab­sent lead­er­ship, propped up by syco­phan­tic un­der­lings whose on­ly job is to en­thu­si­as­ti­cal­ly nod yes, pass­ing as gov­er­nance,” she said.