PM, DEFENCE MINISTER MUST STEP DOWN, SAYS GONZALES

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The Prime Minister is not in control of her government! So says Opposition MP Marvin Gonzales, who says the Prime Minister must step down as National Security Chair, and the Minister of Defence must also resign his position, following Friday's debacle. Rynessa Cutting reports.

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00:00After the issuance of the State 1 alert level, the defense minister's refusal to give insight,

00:06the homeland security minister's claim of a planned protest at the parliament,

00:10and the prime minister's supported admission of complete ignorance.

00:14Opposition MP Marvin Gonzalez says the country must draw the line.

00:19The prime minister is not in control of her government.

00:24The prime minister is not in control of the security issues affecting the people of Trinidad and Tobago,

00:32or the minister of defense not updating the National Security Council and his prime minister on these very important matters.

00:41Either the minister of defense must be called upon to resign from office immediately,

00:46or the prime minister, if she cannot discharge her constitutional duties to protect the people of Trinidad and Tobago,

00:55and perhaps may not have been truthful when she said, if we were to take out her words,

01:00that she was not aware that members of the defense force were called out to duty

01:06and asked to return to base with immediate effect,

01:09then the prime minister would have failed in her responsibilities to the people of Trinidad and Tobago.

01:15On Friday last, the prime minister and the defense minister also presided over a promotion ceremony at the Red House

01:23for the chief of defense staff and the new commanding officer of the regiment.

01:27And as of yesterday, the defense minister telling you, the people of Trinidad and Tobago,

01:33that he is preparing a brief on this matter to the prime minister.

01:37Well, before he prepared that brief to the prime minister,

01:40she had the opportunity to hear from the chief of defense staff and from the commanding officer of the regiment

01:48who were at her office last week, Friday.

01:52She had the opportunity to ask her to update her in her capacity as chair of the National Security Council

01:59on the issues that were affecting the people of Trinidad and Tobago.

02:02The prime minister needs to come clean and she must tell the people of Trinidad and Tobago

02:08whether she is in a state to discharge her duties as chair of the National Security Council.

02:15The opposition is also questioning the government's stance

02:18that it does not have information as it pertains to the United States' next steps regarding Venezuela.

02:25If the Honorable Prime Minister, during her visit to the United Nations,

02:33had a meeting with Secretary Rubio,

02:36I think it is fair to assume that those lines of communication exist.

02:43Renasa Cutting, TV6 News.

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