Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has raised se­ri­ous con­cerns over what she de­scribes as Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s “dic­ta­to­r­i­al” be­hav­iour, fol­low­ing com­ments made by the head of gov­ern­ment in re­sponse to ques­tions about a po­ten­tial mil­i­tary fa­cil­i­ty.

In a state­ment is­sued this morn­ing, Beck­les said Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s di­rec­tive for cit­i­zens to “be­have yuh­self” re­flects a lack of re­spect for ac­count­abil­i­ty and de­mo­c­ra­t­ic scruti­ny.

She warned that the Prime Min­is­ter’s re­cent re­spons­es leave more ques­tions than an­swers and crit­i­cised what she called a dis­mis­sive at­ti­tude to­ward pub­lic in­quiry.