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Op­po­si­tion mem­bers are stand­ing unit­ed against the Gov­ern­ment’s cam­paign promise to re­move the de­mer­it point sys­tem.

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les said any amend­ments to the law must be done with con­sul­ta­tion. Her stance fol­lows point­ed warn­ings from Op­po­si­tion MP Mar­vin Gon­za­les and Op­po­si­tion Sen­a­tor and for­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Faris Al-Rawi, who both crit­i­cised Gov­ern­ment’s plan as reck­less and dan­ger­ous. They were speak­ing at a me­dia con­fer­ence at the Of­fice of the Leader of the Op­po­si­tion at Charles Street, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day.

Gon­za­les, a for­mer min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties and Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, said the sys­tem—in­tro­duced un­der the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment ad­min­is­tra­tion —serves as a crit­i­cal tool to de­ter reck­less dri­ving and save lives.