Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen has again pushed back against what she de­scribed as “mis­chie­vous com­ments” by Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les over the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to es­tab­lish a com­mit­tee to re­view the bound­aries of mu­nic­i­pal cor­po­ra­tions in Trinidad.

She was speak­ing at the post-Cab­i­net me­dia con­fer­ence at the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre on Thurs­day.

Ameen re­ject­ed Beck­les’ claims as mis­lead­ing, say­ing they re­flect a fun­da­men­tal mis­un­der­stand­ing of the par­lia­men­tary process, the scope of leg­is­la­tion gov­ern­ing lo­cal gov­ern­ment and the role of the Elec­tions and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion (EBC).