PENNY ASKS HOW CAN GOV'T LOVE PPL & FIRE THEM?

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The Opposition Leader says any suggestion that the PNM does not want to deal with crime and fights in this country's schools is "absolutely false."   And the Opposition Leader is also asking the UNC Government how can they claim love for people while so many have been fired from State funded programmes and other jobs since they won office.   Juhel Browne reports.

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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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