Pa­tri­ot­ic Front po­lit­i­cal leader Mick­ela Pan­day has ac­cused Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of en­gag­ing in “Tik­Tok gov­er­nance”, urg­ing her to “put down the phone” and con­front what she de­scribed as a wors­en­ing crime sit­u­a­tion.

“End the dig­i­tal per­for­mance. Deal with the sit­u­a­tion,” Pan­day said in a strong­ly word­ed state­ment, as she ar­gued that crime in Trinidad and To­ba­go is spi­ralling de­spite re­peat­ed as­sur­ances from the Gov­ern­ment.

De­clar­ing that “crime is win­ning”, Pan­day said cit­i­zens no longer judge safe­ty based on of­fi­cial up­dates or so­cial me­dia mes­sag­ing, but on their lived re­al­i­ty.