Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of at­tempt­ing to link the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) to drug traf­fick­ing, while ques­tion­ing why al­leged gang mem­bers are be­ing de­tained un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) in­stead of be­ing charged.

Speak­ing at an Op­po­si­tion me­dia brief­ing yes­ter­day, Beck­les stopped short of com­ment­ing di­rect­ly on claims link­ing the Hadeed fam­i­ly to the PNM, say­ing the mat­ter re­mains be­fore the courts.

Beck­les said, “I don’t know in what con­text they want to say that, but I will be very care­ful to com­ment on that. That mat­ter, as I un­der­stand it, is still be­fore the court and there­fore I do not pro­pose to com­ment on it.”