Richard?Lord

Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er and Hous­ing Min­is­ter Dr Roodal Mooni­lal are in­sist­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is in com­mand of the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship. They dis­missed a claim by sacked min­is­ter of Gen­der Af­fairs Ver­na St Rose-Greaves that there were el­e­ments with­in the par­ty who were com­mit­ted to cre­at­ing a na­tion­al cri­sis and have Per­sad-Bisses­sar side­lined to al­low them to do what they want.

St Rose-Greaves told the Sun­day Guardian:?"I know it ap­pears the Prime Min­is­ter is not in charge, and that much I think there is a gen­er­al agree­ment on. She is not in charge." In an in­ter­view yes­ter­day, Warn­er said he "made a promise not to talk to the me­dia but I will break that promise on­ly be­cause I be­lieve it is the most un­grate­ful state­ment one could make of Mrs Bisses­sar."

He said peo­ple should not fol­low "the one or two peo­ple who have po­lit­i­cal griev­ance, whether re­al or imag­ined. Warn­er said St Rose-Greaves' state­ment was un­true and can­not be sub­stan­ti­at­ed. He said if Per­sad-Bisses­sar was not in charge she could not have held the coali­tion to­geth­er. He said he would "not join those who have griev­ances against Mrs Per­sad-Bisses­sar and her Gov­ern­ment in try­ing to bring down her gov­ern­ment."

Warn­er said the PP Gov­ern­ment re­mained "in­tact and sta­ble." He said there was am­ple ev­i­dence of the Gov­ern­ment be­ing unit­ed and strong. "The facts speak for them­selves...Do not look at the bile of any­one in­di­vid­ual," he said. He said all those who were speak­ing out against the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship Gov­ern­ment "have a griev­ance of one kind or the oth­er."

Mooni­lal said he was "shocked and very dis­ap­point­ed" by the for­mer min­is­ter's com­ments. Speak­ing in an in­ter­view while hav­ing his birth­day lunch of dhal, peas, rice and "yard fowl," Mooni­lal said St Rose-Greaves al­le­ga­tions were based on her own imag­i­na­tion. "The al­le­ga­tions are com­plete­ly un­true," he added.

Mooni­lal, who is al­so the leader of gov­ern­ment busi­ness in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives, said the PM?"signs off on all de­ci­sions and is in com­plete com­mand of our Par­lia­men­tary work. Ab­solute­ly no de­ci­sion is tak­en with­out her knowl­edge and ap­proval."

With re­spect to the af­fairs of Cab­i­net, Mooni­lal said the PM has built "a Cab­i­net cul­ture of par­tic­i­pa­tion, in­clu­sion and re­spect for all. Every mem­ber of Cab­i­net has the same right as any oth­er to speak and to shape de­ci­sions and out­comes."

He said as a cab­i­net min­is­ter, St Rose-Greaves al­so ex­er­cised in­flu­ence.

"The tenor of her (St Rose-Greaves) ac­cu­sa­tions is re­gret­table," Mooni­lal said.