Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar speaks during the debate on a motion of no confidence against National Security Minister Stuart Young in Parliament yesterday.
Opposition leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday said that she was “very disturbed” by the statements made by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley on the six-six deadlock in Tobago.
At a media conference earlier, Rowley said that Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi was drafting two amendments to the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) Act to resolve the protracted deadlock.
One amendment would give authority to one person to break deadlocks while the second amendment increases the Tobago seats from the existing 12 to 13, 15, or 19.
Opposition Leader and former Prime Minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar SC MP. (Image courtesy Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago)
Opposition Leader and former Prime Minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar SC MP, has slammed the Rowley Administration for what she says is its continued inability to fix issues in the national security and criminal justice systems.
According to the Opposition Leader, this failure continues to put the lives at citizens in this country at serious risk, even as the Government tries to “politicise the issue of crime-fighting”.
Mrs Persad-Bissessar launched the salvos in a sternly worded statement, issued this morning.
The full text of the statement follows…
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Minister of National Security Stuart Young. Photo by Ayanna Kinsale
NO stuck or stranded nationals are being denied entry into Trinidad and Tobago at this time said National Security Minister Stuart Young on Tuesday.
Young said those making claims to the contrary were “rabble-rousers, mischief makers and those who want to be relevant.”
Speaking at a media conference at the ministry’s Abercromby Street, head office, Young said those awaiting exemptions were those who might have been living abroad and were now wanting to return home for whatever reason along with those who left TT after the borders were closed and now wanted to return.
Why no action on prison population?
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As early as April 2020, Government promised to release eligible prisoners from crowded prisons to mitigate the spread of covid19.
That followed a riot at Golden Grove prison in March, sparked by fears of infection.
Criteria were set out in an application to the court by Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi which identified those in the system sentenced to less than one year, were serving default sentences because they could not pay fines, couldn’t access bail, were eligible to have their sentences commuted or who were entitled to remission.
There would be no reprieve for anyone on gang charges, held for firearm possession or charged with murder, drug trafficking, kidnapping, sexual offences or kidnapping. It was, overall, a sensible and well-considered leavening of the crowded halls of incarceration, filtering out those least likely to pose a threat to society while making it possible to manage the prison system more efficie