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Op­po­si­tion Led­er Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has writ­ten a let­ter to Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young re­quest­ing in­de­pen­dent in­ter­na­tion­al elec­tion ob­servers for the up­com­ing 2025 Gen­er­al Elec­tions.

But yes­ter­day, the Op­po­si­tion Leader claimed her re­newed call fol­lowed for­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley’s dis­mis­sive re­sponse to the ini­tial re­quest. Last De­cem­ber, for­mer prime min­is­ter Row­ley said he had writ­ten to the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (Cari­com) re­quest­ing elec­tion ob­servers. In Jan­u­ary, it was an­nounced that Cari­com ac­cept­ed the re­quest and said an ob­serv­er mis­sion would be sent for the polls.

But yes­ter­day, Per­sad-Bisses­sar claimed there sev­er­al is­sues she raised in her let­ter to Young, in­clud­ing a con­flict of in­ter­est with the As­sis­tant Sec­re­tary-Gen­er­al of Cari­com, Eliz­a­beth Solomon, be­ing the wife of for­mer At­tor­ney Gen­er­al, Regi­nald Ar­mour and what she claimed were un­ad­dressed long-stand­ing con­cerns about the EBC.