Pa­tri­ot­ic Front leader Mick­ela Pan­day has crit­i­cised Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s han­dling of ques­tions sur­round­ing US mil­i­tary strikes in the re­gion, say­ing her re­spons­es show con­fu­sion, de­nial, and a lack of aware­ness about an in­ter­na­tion­al in­ci­dent un­fold­ing close to Trinidad and To­ba­go.

In a state­ment shared on so­cial me­dia yes­ter­day, Pan­day said the sit­u­a­tion has moved be­yond pol­i­tics and now rais­es con­cerns about whether the Prime Min­is­ter is mis­lead­ing the pub­lic or is sim­ply out of her depth.

She out­lined the se­quence of events, be­gin­ning with a Sep­tem­ber 2 US Navy airstrike on a Venezue­lan ves­sel in the Caribbean that left 11 peo­ple dead.