Po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tist and UWI Prof Hamid Ghany has weighed in on the heat­ed po­lit­i­cal rhetoric ahead of the gen­er­al elec­tion, stat­ing that the re­al is­sue at play is class, not race.

Dr Ghany’s com­ments come in re­sponse to re­cent state­ments made by PNM leader Dr Kei­th Row­ley and Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young, who ac­cused the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) of us­ing “black men and black girls” to ad­vance its cam­paign agen­da.

Prime Min­is­ter Young ap­pealed to cit­i­zens to stand unit­ed against what he de­scribed as a dan­ger­ous wave of po­lit­i­cal in­tim­i­da­tion, mis­in­for­ma­tion, and racial­ly charged cam­paign­ing ahead of the April 28 gen­er­al elec­tion.