Kim­ber­ly Mack­han

Port-of-Spain South MP Mar­lene Mc­Don­ald re­ceived loud and per­sis­tent boo­ing from one long-stand­ing Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) sup­port­er Chris­tine "Twig­gy" Levia af­ter be­ing screened to re­con­test her seat. As Mc­Don­ald de­scend­ed the stairs out­side Bal­isi­er House in­to the build­ing's carpark, Levia be­gan to boo. She was less than 12 feet from Mc­Don­ald. Her heck­les caught the at­ten­tion of both Mc­Don­ald and mem­bers of her Port-of-Spain South con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive as well as the throngs of PNM mem­bers who were gath­ered in the Bal­isi­er House carpark. Levia said Mc­Don­ald was un­pop­u­lar and that the peo­ple sup­port­ing her were "a hand­ful of URP and Cepep gangs."

PNM deputy po­lit­i­cal leader Joan Yuille-Williams went over to Levia and at­tempt­ed to calm her down. Levia did not stop boo­ing Mc­Don­ald and opt­ed to raise her voice. As Mc­Don­ald walked passed Levia, Yuille-Williams grabbed Levia by the hand and tried to pull her one-side, but Levia did not budge nor did she stop boo­ing. Mc­Don­ald's con­stituen­cy be­gan clap­ping and cheer­ing her on but it still did not drown out Levia's boos. When asked about her re­ac­tion's to Levia's boos, Mc­Don­ald said: "By who? By who? Is it a cred­i­ble source? It is not. It is not." Mc­Don­ald said her first or­der of busi­ness would be sit with her con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive and con­tin­ue to im­ple­ment their elec­tion strate­gies.