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DR AMERY BROWNE said Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has established herself as the worst PM in the history of Trinidad and Tobago. He said in the history of TT, he had never seen a population distance itself so quickly from a government.

Speaking at a press conference at the Office of the Opposition Leader, Charles Street, Port of Spain on December 30, Browne said on their worst days in office, former prime ministers ANR Robinson, Patrick Manning, Dr Keith Rowley, UNC founder Basdeo Panday, Dr Eric Williams, and even Persad-Bissessar in her first term as PM, would have given TT better service than the PM currently.

“What do we expect, what does the country want from its PM? A PM is the chief diplomat and representative of the country in the region and overseas. What Kamla Persad-Bissessar has done is take the legacy of great statesmen like ANR Robinson and others and has really reduced that to some very simplistic talking points and attacks against our regional family in the form of the Caribbean Community (Caricom), attacks against other heads of state within the Caribbean region, having government ministers using the most deplorable language, personal attacks against family members of heads of states, all of these are unprecedented developments in our region and have never occurred in TT before. This has been a lowering of the national standard, not by the people of this country, but by the PM and her Cabinet.”