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Opposition Leader Pennelope Beckles has questioned the absence of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar from a press conference held today, saying the public reasonably expected the Prime Minister to appear and address matters of national importance.
In a statement posted to social media, Beckles said the media and public instead faced two Ministers who appeared unable to provide clear answers on key national issues.Beckles said Trinidad and Tobago “cannot be expected to accept a Prime Minister who seems unwilling to make herself available to the media and, more importantly, to the people she was elected to serve.”
She criticised what she described as a poorly executed press conference by the United National Congress, which she said appeared designed to distract the population with “frivolous and cheap political rhetoric” on issues relating to the Housing Development Corporation, rather than addressing serious national concerns.
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