The Gov­ern­ment has strong­ly chal­lenged Op­po­si­tion leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les’ self-as­sess­ment of her first term lead­ing the Op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM).

Re­spond­ing to Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, sev­er­al Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ters re­ject­ed Beck­les’ six out of ten rat­ing of her par­ty’s per­for­mance over the last year, dou­ble the score she gave to Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

While Beck­les ad­mit­ted that the PNM has more work to be done, sev­er­al min­is­ters and a sen­a­tor slammed the Op­po­si­tion’s analy­sis of its year-one per­for­mance.