Pa­tri­ot­ic Front leader Mick­ela Pan­day has crit­i­cised Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar for her com­ments re­gard­ing Wednes­day’s protest in Port-of-Spain, ac­cus­ing the Prime Min­is­ter of re­spond­ing with “con­tempt” in­stead of ad­dress­ing cit­i­zens’ con­cerns.

The protest was held to high­light the dis­con­tent over the po­lice’s de­ci­sion to is­sue war­rants for the ar­rest of Ka­ia Sealy in the death of her com­mon-law hus­band Joshua Sama­roo dur­ing a po­lice-in­volved shoot­ing in­ci­dent in Jan­u­ary.

In a state­ment yes­ter­day, Pan­day de­scribed the Prime Min­is­ter’s re­sponse as “ex­treme­ly dis­ap­point­ing,” say­ing calls for na­tion­al lead­ers to “low­er the tem­per­a­ture” had in­stead been met with in­sults di­rect­ed at pro­test­ers.