Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen says she will not be in­tim­i­dat­ed by any al­leged threats to her safe­ty and life and will car­ry out her re­spon­si­bil­i­ties as nor­mal.

Speak­ing af­ter the han­dover cer­e­mo­ny for equip­ment to clear sar­gas­sum sea­weed at Kent House in Mar­aval yes­ter­day, the Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter said she will not al­low the al­leged death threats to stop her from per­form­ing her du­ties as an MP and Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cial.

Dur­ing a Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress meet­ing on Au­gust 11, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­vealed that the lives of Ameen and Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath had been threat­ened in con­nec­tion with changes to the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme (URP) and the Com­mu­ni­ty-Based En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion and En­hance­ment Pro­gramme (CEPEP).