The Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre of Trinidad and To­ba­go has strong­ly con­demned re­marks made by for­mer prime min­is­ter Kei­th Row­ley about Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, warn­ing that such lan­guage un­der­mines the dig­ni­ty of pub­lic of­fice and the stan­dard of na­tion­al lead­er­ship.

In a state­ment is­sued by Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary Michael An­nisette, NATUC ex­pressed con­cern over com­ments cir­cu­lat­ing in the pub­lic do­main af­ter Dr Row­ley used the term “jamette”, wide­ly re­gard­ed as deroga­to­ry and misog­y­nis­tic.

“Jamette” is some­times used to de­scribe a sex­u­al­ly promis­cu­ous woman.