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On Mon­day night, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar launched a scathing at­tack on an un­named min­is­ter of her ad­min­is­tra­tion, who she ac­cused of cavourt­ing with “the same crooked con­trac­tors and PNM fi­nanciers and cor­rupt fake elites.” This is the speech in which our Prime Min­is­ter threat­ened to “buss your head” of any min­is­ter found guilty of aw­ful crime of talk­ing with one of their fel­low coun­try­men.

This is al­so the speech in which she called on the man­age­ment of ma­jor­i­ty state-owned Caribbean Air­lines Ltd (CAL) to “sort it­self out” with­in two years, crit­i­cis­ing the man­age­ment for op­er­at­ing an air­line that does not have “one sin­gle route that is prof­itable.” She al­so lam­bast­ed the na­tion­al air­line for spend­ing over $60 mil­lion to en­gage EY and PwC to con­duct au­dits, while em­ploy­ing 86 peo­ple in its fi­nance de­part­ment.

Notes to Mrs Per­sad-Bisses­sar: If none of CAL’s routes are prof­itable, then sure­ly the Gov­ern­ment has the fi­nan­cial re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to ei­ther close down the air­line or di­vest it; there are very few com­pa­nies in T&T that op­er­ate with­out an ex­ter­nal au­di­tor, no mat­ter how large or small is the com­pa­ny’s fi­nance de­part­ment. There is a rea­son that the Com­pa­nies Act men­tions au­di­tors 133 times.