Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad Bisses­sar says the Prime Min­is­ter failed to pro­vide any hope or com­fort to cit­i­zens or a plan to deal with the sit­u­a­tion dur­ing his ad­dress to the na­tion. In a press re­lease is­sued this af­ter­noon, the Op­po­si­tion Leader stat­ed that “In spite of his ab­ject fail­ure, as well as that of his med­ical team to get the virus un­der con­trol and pre­vent deaths, Row­ley’s ap­peal to cit­i­zens at this time when more than 2,000 peo­ple have died, rings hol­low.”

The fol­low­ing is a press re­lease from the Op­po­si­tion Leader:

On a day that the coun­try record­ed its dead­liest day on record in the pan­dem­ic, the Prime Min­is­ter spent close to an hour ad­dress­ing the na­tion but failed to pro­vide any hope or com­fort to cit­i­zens, or a plan to deal with the sit­u­a­tion.

In spite of his ab­ject fail­ure, as well as that of his med­ical team to get the virus un­der con­trol and pre­vent deaths, Row­ley’s ap­peal to cit­i­zens at this time when more than 2,000 peo­ple have died, rings hol­low.  

Since this pan­dem­ic be­gan the Gov­ern­ment’s pol­i­cy pre­scrip­tions have re­volved around three ar­eas. First­ly they have re­peat­ed shal­low slo­gans such as “fol­low­ing the sci­ence” with­out pro­vid­ing any da­ta. 

Sec­ond­ly, they have spent most of their time con­grat­u­lat­ing them­selves, again with­out any jus­ti­fi­ca­tion. 

And last­ly, they have mind­less­ly dis­missed all crit­ics and any­one who re­fus­es to tow the gov­ern­ment line that every­thing is fine, as “naysay­ers” or “un­pa­tri­ot­ic”. Judg­ing by Row­ley’s ad­dress to the na­tion, noth­ing is go­ing to change. 

It is un­ac­cept­able that the Row­ley led Gov­ern­ment is com­fort­able do­ing the same thing over and over and ex­pect­ing dif­fer­ent re­sults.

Thou­sands in our na­tion are con­cerned, wor­ried and many are griev­ing due to the un­time­ly loss of loved ones, yet not a sin­gle plan was put for­ward by the Prime Min­is­ter. 

Our prayers go out to all those who have been af­fect­ed by this pan­dem­ic, and we in­sist that there must al­so be sound lead­er­ship and de­ci­sive ac­tion to mit­i­gate the cri­sis we face. 

Our na­tion sim­ply can­not go on like this.