PM’s remarks prompt call for sedition probe

The First Wave Movement has called on the Commissioner of Police to initiate an investigation into Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s statements in her Independence Day message to United National Congress (UNC) supporters.

In a letter dated September 1, the Movement’s founder and leader, Umar Abdullah, asked the Commissioner to determine whether the Prime Minister’s remarks warranted proceedings under the Sedition Act.

Abdullah referred to statements in which Persad-Bissessar told supporters, “Do not crawl on your belly for anyone. It’s either peace or total war, nothing in between,” and said “finesse and diplomacy must be backed up with steeliness and savagery when required to defend the UNC membership”.