Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she wants to meet with the 14-year-old Co­corite girl who post­ed threat­en­ing state­ments about her on Face­book. The Prime Min­is­ter said she had read about the mat­ter in the news­pa­pers and had heard that the teen had apol­o­gised. In re­marks dur­ing com­mis­sion­ing of a street-light­ing project in Pe­nal yes­ter­day af­ter­noon, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said:

"I am a moth­er and a grand­moth­er and this is a teenag­er, a child. I am sure that you will agree with me when I say that I should meet with her and ac­cept her apol­o­gy. "We should al­so find out why she felt it nec­es­sary to do this. "I am not of the view, giv­en the cir­cum­stances, that she should not be pun­ished in any way. I think first we should talk to her.

"Do you all agree? We must see what kind of as­sis­tance and help we can pro­vide for her." Even as the Prime Min­is­ter made those com­ments, of­fi­cers of the Port-of-Spain CID were await­ing the ar­rival of a teenage girl who was sup­posed to give her­self up af­ter mak­ing threat­en­ing state­ments on Face­book to the Prime Min­is­ter. In the video, the teenag­er was crit­i­cal of Per­sad-Bisses­sar's de­ci­sion to de­clare the state of emer­gency and cur­few re­stric­tions. The video which was post­ed last week on Face­book has been gen­er­at­ing con­tro­ver­sy. At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan said it in­clud­ed racial state­ments and the teenag­er should turn her­self in to the po­lice to let them deal with the mat­ter.

The teen in turn apol­o­gised for her ac­tions and plead­ed with per­sons to stop post­ing the video.

She claimed the video was delet­ed and re-post­ed an­oth­er video beg­ging oth­ers to stop shar­ing her videos and she nev­er "meant to do it again." The teenag­er has met with her Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment Dr Amery Browne. Yes­ter­day, po­lice of­fi­cers said they were told the teen and her rel­a­tives would sur­ren­der to them. Se­nior of­fi­cers have been giv­en di­rec­tives on how to treat the in­ves­ti­ga­tion. Po­lice said at­tor­neys Theodore Guer­ra and Sen­a­tor Fitzger­ald Hinds vis­it­ed the Cen­tral Po­lice Sta­tion to in­quire about the mat­ter.

CAMILLE CLARKE and RAD­HI­CA SOOKRAJ