PM slams PNM over promise to repeal key legislation

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has launched a scathing at­tack on the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) over its promise to re­peal key pieces of leg­is­la­tion if it re­turns to of­fice, ac­cus­ing the Op­po­si­tion of putting young peo­ple and com­mu­ni­ties at risk by op­pos­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s crime-fight­ing mea­sures.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­spond­ed to PNM Deputy Leader San­jiv Bood­hu, who an­nounced at the par­ty’s gen­er­al coun­cil meet­ing at Bal­isi­er House on Thurs­day that the par­ty would seek to re­peal the Mu­nic­i­pal Cor­po­ra­tions (Amend­ment) Bill 2026, the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill and the Mis­cel­la­neous Pro­vi­sions (Al­co­hol, Cannabis, Dan­ger­ous Drugs, Gam­bling and To­bac­co) Bill 2026 if elect­ed to of­fice.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar mocked the PNM’s po­si­tion on leg­is­la­tion deal­ing with spe­cial po­lice op­er­a­tions, al­co­hol, cannabis, dan­ger­ous drugs, gam­bling and to­bac­co, while in­sist­ing the Op­po­si­tion was free to chal­lenge the laws in court.