Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar said the Prime Minister’s comments about not caring if he ever went back to the US were false bravado. She said he made the statement to distract from the "opening" of the “incomplete” Port of Spain General Hospital (PoSGH) central block.

On March 10, the Prime Minister said, “Out of the blue now, we have been called human traffickers because we hire technical people who we pay top dollar, equal to local rates. We are now being accused of taking part in a programme where people are being exploited.

"That’s somebody’s interpretation.