The Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is de­fend­ing its La­dy Vice Chair­man and head of the par­ty’s Na­tion­al Women’s League, Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly, af­ter she faced crit­i­cism for sharply re­buk­ing the Prime Min­is­ter’s call to ex­pel mis­be­hav­ing stu­dents from school.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­cent­ly raised con­cerns about a rise in dis­rup­tive in­ci­dents in class­rooms, warn­ing that stu­dents who do not take their ed­u­ca­tion se­ri­ous­ly risk end­ing up in me­nial jobs—or as PNM MPs.

Gads­by-Dol­ly re­spond­ed with a blis­ter­ing cri­tique of the Prime Min­is­ter, ac­cus­ing her of be­ing in “ear­ly-stage de­men­tia” and adding that if the Prime Min­is­ter were younger, she would tell her where to “haul a body part which we all hold dear.”