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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