00:00Yeah, don't worry, you know, they're lasting, you know, five years, you know.
00:03The prediction of opposition leader, Penelope Beckles, in reference to the new UNC-led government,
00:08as she spoke during a meeting of her party, the PNM, in the Degomate North Community Center.
00:13And as the post-Cabinet media briefing was set to take place on Thursday,
00:17the opposition leader made an apparent comparison to her approach to the media and that of the Prime Minister.
00:24But you need to listen to the news. You need to watch them.
00:30Because this is governance by WhatsApp. Every question is by WhatsApp.
00:36We in the People's National Movement are making ourselves available on a daily basis,
00:43on a weekly basis, to the media.
00:48Among the issues that the opposition leader dealt with on Wednesday night,
00:51the dismissal of some administrative-level workers with the Unemployment Relief Program,
00:56as the new UNC-led government has said it is seeking to get rid of corruption in such programs.
01:04Opposition leader Beckles said this adds to the thousands sent home from other state-funded programs, including CPEP.
01:10You would have been sitting at home and you would have been watching the swearing-ing of the Honorable Kamala Posad-Bissessa.
01:23Every word.
01:25I love you.
01:26I love you.
01:27I love my people.
01:28How you does love people and fire them?
01:35How do you love single mothers and send them home?
01:42The opposition leader also posed the questions to the government about a new policy
01:46for the deployment of police officers in certain schools.
01:49In Arima today, we find out that a teacher and a student got into a big fight.
02:00But guess what?
02:01You think it had police in the school?
02:03You think it had police in the school there?
02:06In a statement to the media on Monday,
02:08Prime Minister Kamala Posad-Bissessa said the TTPS officers are free
02:12to carry their firearms inside or outside of schools if it is deemed necessary,
02:17and that police officers report to their TTPS seniors and not the school principals.
02:23What is the criteria they use to determine where they send police officers with guns?
02:31So they want you to believe that the people's national movement
02:35does not want to address the issue of crime in schools and fighting.
02:40Absolutely false.
02:42We are saying, tell us what is your criteria,
02:44share with us the schools that you have selected to have police officers.
02:49We are also asking you, are you specifically training those officers
02:54that are going to those schools?
02:56During a TTPS media conference on Thursday,
02:58Deputy Commissioner of Police in Charge of Operations, Junior Benjamin,
03:02said all 50 schools that were listed by the Ministry of Education
03:06to receive additional support from the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service
03:10are manned at this time.
03:13End quote.
03:14Jewel Brown, TV6 News.
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