KPB DOUBLES DOWN AS GOV'T RESPONDS

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The Opposition Leader is facing condemnation from an arm of the  PNM, the NTA and one Cabinet member for her harsh criticisms of the previous administration in the U.S.  However, the Opposition Leader has received the support of the PEP, as she is doubling down on her declaration that the previous U.S. administration was an absolute disaster".  Juhel Browne reports.

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00:00The PNM Women's League strongly condemned opposition leader Kamala

00:04Prasad's criticisms of the administration led by now former US

00:09President Joe Biden as she congratulated Donald Trump as he became the 47th

00:15President of the United States on Monday. In a statement on Tuesday the PNM's

00:20Women's League said the opposition leader denigrated the previous

00:24Democratic government of the United States of America and declared quote

00:28this kind of rhetoric is reckless and damaging not only to our relationship

00:33with a key ally like the US but also to Trinidad and Tobago's standing on the

00:38world stage end quote. The leader of the NTA former Police Commissioner Guy

00:43Griffith also used a statement on Tuesday saying the tone and content of

00:47Mrs. Prasad Becerra's statement which harshly criticized the outgoing Biden

00:52administration represent what Mr. Griffith called a failure of sound

00:56diplomatic judgment. Mr. Griffith said quote a particular note was the mention

01:01of the woke agenda in the release while a more modern interpretation of the term

01:05includes divisive elements such as biological men competing in women's

01:10sports. The term originally emerged from African-American vernacular English to

01:15describe heightened awareness of social and racial injustices given the

01:21realities of Trinidad and Tobago's racial ethnic and tribal divisions

01:25anything that could further fuel this divide must be avoided end quote. Foreign

01:30and Caricom Affairs Minister Dr. Amy Brown issued a statement on the social

01:34media platform X on Monday however it began to get national attention on

01:39Tuesday. The foreign minister said on Monday quote the leader of the

01:42opposition's media release of today focused on politics in the USA in her

01:47most inappropriate, injudicious, inept, imprudent, phoning, tactless, reckless,

01:53obscure, intemperate, and ill-advised utterance to date end quote. On Tuesday

02:00PEP political leader Philip Alexander was critical of Minister Brown's

02:04description of the opposition leaders statement. Mr. Alexander said quote

02:09Kamala Prasad Becerra as the leader of the largest cross-section of Trinidadians

02:13understood the assignment and demonstrated a willingness to speak

02:17truth in the face of all those absurdities and atrocities even before

02:22Trump won so to infer that she was attempting to score points is Griffith

02:27attempting to judge her by his own weak and low standards end quote. Meanwhile

02:32opposition leader Prasad Becerra has doubled down on her comments. In a

02:37statement on Tuesday the opposition leader said she firmly stands by her

02:41comments regarding the Joe Biden administration and maintained that she

02:44believed it was an absolute disaster. Pointing out that the PNM and other

02:49critics have come out supporting the Biden administration she called on them

02:53to tell Trinidad and Tobago if they support any of the policies of the Biden

02:57administration she is highly critical of. Mrs. Prasad Becerra said her record will

03:03show that since 2020 she has quote been advocating against this woke far-left

03:09extreme insanity. It's time for the world to move on from the insanity and

03:14destructive divisive policies of the Joe Biden Democrats administration end

03:19quote. In November of last year Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley wrote a letter

03:24to then President-elect Trump and said he has every confidence that under Mr.

03:28Trump's stewardship the relationship with the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

03:32and the wider Caribbean community will continue to prosper.

03:36Jule Brown TV6 News

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