Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she is look­ing for­ward to what she de­scribed as “round two” of at­tempts to boo her on In­de­pen­dence Day, as po­lit­i­cal ten­sions con­tin­ue to sim­mer fol­low­ing her ab­sence from the Eman­ci­pa­tion Sup­port Com­mit­tee of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s (ES­CTT) flag­ship Eman­ci­pa­tion Vil­lage cel­e­bra­tions over the week­end.

Re­spond­ing to ques­tions from Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day about whether she in­tends to at­tend this year’s In­de­pen­dence Day pa­rade in light of the re­cent con­tro­ver­sy, Per­sad-Bisses­sar did not con­firm this. In­stead, the Prime Min­is­ter launched a fresh at­tack on the Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM), ac­cus­ing it of us­ing na­tion­al cel­e­bra­tions to pro­mote racial di­vi­sion.

“The PNM, the lo­cal drug mafia and their sup­port­ers’ grand po­lit­i­cal strat­e­gy to ‘boo Kam­la the stink­ing c*****e’ sad­ly for them flopped at Eman­ci­pa­tion cel­e­bra­tions when I didn’t at­tend,” Per­sad-Bisses­sar said.