Bring it on.
This was the response of Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley yesterday to the Prime Minister's call for a motion of no confidence to be filed against him in the Parliament.
Rowley was speaking at a press briefing at the Opposition's office at Charles Street, Port-of-Spain.
During the United National Congress' Monday Night Forum at the Brazil Secondary School, Persad-Bissessar said her party intended to file the motion of no confidence over Rowley's failure to disclose that Police Complaints Authority Director David West was a witness of his in a defamation case filed against him by former attorney general Anand Ramlogan.
Saying yesterday that the Opposition was ready, willing and able to respond to any folly generated by Persad-Bissessar, Rowley reiterated that West was a witness in the matter.
"The Prime Minister is distracting the population by attacking David West, [and] the Leader of the Opposition by threatening lawsuits and by threatening the vote of no confidence," he said.
"The Prime Minister is engaging in guerilla warfare against the witness, terrorising people who have spoken the truth, firing Cabinet ministers who promised not to lie and waging war against the Opposition Leader. I have no responsibility to tell the Prime Minister what her advisor did not tell her and in this particular case her advisor is the litigant who filed the lawsuit against me."
He added that he also had nothing to gain from West.
During the Monday night meeting, Persad-Bissessar also called on the authorities to conclude its probe into "Emailgate," as she was ready to head to court.
Yesterday, Rowley said a pre-action protocol letter was sent to him nearly two years ago but it seemed Persad-Bissessar was still undecided on whether she would proceed with legal action.
"I invite the Prime Minister to file a lawsuit because I am ready, willing and able to engage her and everybody else associated with the contents of those e-mails. So I'm anxiously awaiting those e-mails," Rowley said.
In May 2013, Rowley, during his motion of no confidence against the PP Government and the Prime Minister, disclosed the contents of 31 e-mails purporting to be exchanges between Persad-Bissessar, former attorney general Anand Ramlogan, Local Government Minister Dr Suruj Rambachan and then-national security adviser to the PM Gary Griffith.
The e-mails alleged these high office holders were conspiring to harm a journalist, plant electronic spying devices in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), offer the DPP a judgeship, and accept payment from an unnamed woman in exchange for the freedom of people involved in the Section 34 fiasco in September 2012.
"If the Prime Minister is so upset about an investigation that points to wrongdoing in her Government, what is she doing now about the police investigation of the AG who has had to leave office under her stewardship?" Rowley questioned.
Saying that the country was on autopilot as the coalition had collapsed, Rowley said that for quite some time the PM had been without her senses.
"The behaviour of the Prime Minister leaves a lot to be desired in a country that has so many challenges to be addressed. At the moment the Prime Minister is operating in the context of fear," Rowley said.