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“A scur­rilous lie and defam­a­to­ry in the ex­treme.”

That was how Bar­ba­dos Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley yes­ter­day de­scribed com­ments made by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar dur­ing her speech at the open­ing Cari­com 50th Heads of Gov­ern­ment meet­ing on Tues­day.

Mot­t­ley was re­spond­ing to Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s claim that Trinidad and To­ba­go busi­ness­man Brent Thomas had been “kid­napped” from Bar­ba­dos.