THE Opposition has condemned Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar for claiming the PNM party was linked to the drug mafia. In a statement on October 24, the PNM said her statement was “entirely baseless, viciously reckless and highly defamatory.”

It said the comment was a desperate attempt to distract from her government’s failures and the growing public backlash against her leadership.

Persad-Bissessar, in a statement earlier in the day, accused the PNM of creating a daily disinformation campaign in an attempt "to protect their drug mafia financiers.” She said “the Opposition PNM and their agents are persistent in creating unnecessary hysteria and conspiracy theories in a desperate attempt to create instability and chaos.”