by Jesse Ramdeo

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is dou­bling down on her po­si­tion that the de­vel­op­ment in the Es­tate Man­age­ment and Busi­ness De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny (EM­BD) mat­ter al­lows for the PNM to cam­paign on the premise that "all In­di­an is thief."

Re­spond­ing to ques­tions short­ly af­ter Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley rub­bish­es the Op­po­si­tion Leader's nar­ra­tive dur­ing a press con­fer­ence, Per­sad Bisses­sar stat­ed that quote "the PNM on­ly gets away with do­ing this over and over at elec­tions be­cause no one called them out be­fore and they are sup­port­ed by pseu­do-in­tel­lec­tu­als, weak men and eat a food fake elites who are sole­ly dri­ven by fi­nan­cial gain from the gov­ern­ment."

Dr Row­ley slammed Per­sad-Bisses­sar and la­belled her de­ceit­ful. He added that East In­di­ans have noth­ing to fear and that the Op­po­si­tion Leader's com­ments were high­ly of­fen­sive.

Per­sad Bisses­sar de­fend­ed Dr Mooni­lal amid re­cent new al­le­ga­tions of cor­rup­tion in the EM­BD court mat­ter.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar la­belled the Prime Min­is­ter's press con­fer­ence as "use­less" and ac­cused Dr Row­ley of re­hash­ing what she said were the same lazy talk­ing points he had used for years. Quote: "No one cares; he's a lame duck whose on­ly achieve­ment in of­fice is hav­ing no achieve­ment while in of­fice."

Asked if she was con­cerned that the Prime Min­is­ter was dis­clos­ing de­tails about mat­ters be­fore the court, Per­sad-Bisses­sar stat­ed "He's giv­ing these de­tails as part of his de­lib­er­ate and co­or­di­nat­ed racist pro­pa­gan­da cam­paign for the PNM ground troops to use in the gen­er­al elec­tion. The PNM ground cam­paign for decades has al­ways been to paint In­di­ans as UNC vot­ing thieves, idol wor­ship­pers, la­goon dwellers, rum drinkers and cane cut­ters who have no moral and spir­i­tu­al val­ues."