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Akash Sama­roo

The Na­tion­al Trade Union Cen­tre of Trinidad and To­ba­go (NATUC) has strong­ly con­demned re­marks made by for­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley about Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, warn­ing that such lan­guage un­der­mines the dig­ni­ty of pub­lic of­fice and the stan­dard of na­tion­al lead­er­ship.

In a state­ment yes­ter­day, NATUC gen­er­al sec­re­tary Michael An­nisette ex­pressed con­cern over com­ments cir­cu­lat­ing in the pub­lic do­main, af­ter Row­ley used the term “jamette,” wide­ly re­gard­ed as deroga­to­ry and misog­y­nis­tic.