For­mer prime min­is­ters Dr Kei­th Row­ley and Stu­art Young area ac­cus­ing the Gov­ern­ment of us­ing the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the fi­nanc­ing of the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment's Bal­isi­er House head­quar­ters to di­vert pub­lic at­ten­tion from what they say are more press­ing na­tion­al is­sues, in­clud­ing vi­o­lent crime, the for­eign ex­change short­age, eco­nom­ic chal­lenges, Point Lisas plant clo­sures, grow­ing debt and Trinidad and To­ba­go's ex­clu­sion from dis­cus­sions on Venezue­lan gas.

As the po­lit­i­cal fall­out con­tin­ued on Sun­day, PNM Chair­man Mar­vin Gon­za­les used the con­tro­ver­sy to re­new the par­ty's call for cam­paign fi­nance re­form, chal­leng­ing the Gov­ern­ment to sup­port leg­is­la­tion in Par­lia­ment.

"If the UNC cares about this coun­try, and not on­ly po­lit­i­cal bachan­nal and vic­tim­iza­tion, they will join with the PNM and bring clo­sure to the Cam­paign Fi­nance re­form leg­is­la­tion which to date they have spurned in the Par­lia­ment," Gon­za­les said.