PNM po­lit­i­cal leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les says the Op­po­si­tion is pre­pared to work with the Gov­ern­ment in the fight against crime, stress­ing that the is­sue de­mands uni­ty across po­lit­i­cal lines.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia on Sat­ur­day out­side City Hall ahead of the par­ty’s “For the Love of Lib­er­ty” In­de­pen­dence Day cel­e­bra­tion, Beck­les ad­dressed the shoot­ing of Dr Dorothy Williams-Chan­dler in Champs Fleurs.

“I know the Chan­dler fam­i­ly, so the whole mat­ter is very dis­tress­ing. The is­sue is crime, and when you speak about crime, we speak about an ac­tiv­i­ty that af­fects every Trinida­di­an and To­bag­on­ian,” she said.