Beckles: Bill ‘worse than the State of Emergency’

Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has ac­cused the Gov­ern­ment of seek­ing to make it hard­er for the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment to hold po­lit­i­cal meet­ings ahead of next year’s lo­cal gov­ern­ment elec­tions, warn­ing that the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Bill could be used against them.

Ad­dress­ing par­ty sup­port­ers out­side Bal­isi­er House yes­ter­day, Beck­les urged the PNM to pre­pare for the polls while scru­ti­n­is­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s pro­posed se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures, which she de­scribed as “worse than the state of emer­gency”.

“The PNM, get your­self ready. Next year is lo­cal elec­tions. And they want to make it hard for us to have meet­ings,” she charged.