Al­le­ga­tions of gang af­fil­i­a­tion, in­tim­i­da­tion, ex­tor­tion and threats have prompt­ed a ma­jor shake-up at the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA).

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has brushed aside crit­i­cism over her de­ci­sion to is­sue a sep­a­rate In­de­pen­dence Day mes­sage to Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) sup­port­ers, de­scrib­ing the back­lash as “fake out­rage” and in­sist­ing she will con­tin­ue to de­fend the par­ty’s mem­ber­ship.

For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is call­ing on Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar to apol­o­gise to the na­tion over an In­de­pen­dence Day mes­sage to Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) sup­port­ers, ac­cus­ing her of pro­mot­ing racial di­vi­sion and threat­en­ing the coun­try’s so­cial har­mo­ny.

Prime Min­is­ter and Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has dis­missed sug­ges­tions that her re­cent In­de­pen­dence Day mes­sage sig­nalled an im­pend­ing con­test for the lead­er­ship of her par­ty, de­scrib­ing that in­ter­pre­ta­tion as in­cor­rect.