Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porter

While Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) min­is­ters have fol­lowed Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar in at­tack­ing the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) af­ter Africa Eman­ci­pa­tion Day is­sues, PNM leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has called on the PM to stop dis­tract­ing the pub­lic with “crazy rant­i­ng” and an­swer mount­ing ques­tions on na­tion­al is­sues, in­clud­ing job­less­ness.

“It would (al­so) be fit­ting for the Prime Min­is­ter to prop­er­ly ad­dress the con­cerns about the UNC’s per­pet­u­al States of Emer­gency re­cent­ly raised by the US Am­bas­sador-des­ig­nate to T&T,” Beck­les said yes­ter­day.