Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of lead­ing a “wicked” and “in­com­pe­tent” Gov­ern­ment now try­ing to dis­tract from mount­ing con­tro­ver­sies sur­round­ing the HDC and Land­mark­TT.

In a state­ment is­sued this af­ter­noon, Beck­les claimed Per­sad-Bisses­sar is de­lib­er­ate­ly at­tempt­ing to shift na­tion­al at­ten­tion away from ques­tions sur­round­ing more than $3 bil­lion in hous­ing-re­lat­ed con­tracts and the on­go­ing scruti­ny fac­ing Land­mark­TT Prop­er­ties Ltd.

“Her voice has sud­den­ly emerged in an at­tempt to dis­tract the na­tion from Land­mark­TT-Gate and HDC-Gate, but it is not work­ing,” Beck­les de­clared.