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Former Deputy Political Leader of the UNC Dr. Surujrattan Rambachan, commends Prime Minister Kamala Persad Bissessar for her handling of national security.
He says that aside from Friday's communication lapse, she has performed exceptionally and that it is "foolish" for anyone to criticize her firm stance against narco-trafficking....

Tv6's Nicole M Romany has more.
Transcript
00:00Amid rising regional tensions with Venezuela, fallout with CARICOM, and growing anxiety across the Caribbean,
00:09Dr. Suruj Rambachan is standing firmly behind Prime Minister Kamlo Passat-Bissasa,
00:16praising the decisive action against narco-trafficking and dismissing criticism as misguided.
00:23She has attacked narco-trafficking, and anyone will be foolish, very foolish,
00:28not to stand by her side in terms of carrying out a battle, a serious battle against narco-trafficking.
00:35Because in this country, we are all at risk, to use the now famous word, collateral damage, with respect to narco-traffickers.
00:44We are. We are at risk as a nation.
00:48And if someone didn't have the courage, the determination, and the strength to do something about it,
00:53we would have been going down that slippery road, but we would have caved in.
00:57Dr. Rambachan insists the Prime Minister has not provoked Venezuela,
01:02adding that her comments were directed at narco-trafficking and the deportation of certain Venezuelan migrants.
01:10The Venezuelans continue to be supported here by our social system, our social services, our hospitals,
01:17you know, our businesses which employ them, and what have you.
01:20And yet, the only thing, the dispute that exists between Venezuela and Trinidad, in my view,
01:25is the apparent refusal of Venezuela to accept the 200 persons who Kamala wishes to deport.
01:34Kamala has not said that she's going to deport people who are legitimately here in Trinidad, you know.
01:39She's talking about those who have committed crimes in jails and in the detention center who need to be deported.
01:45On a separate issue, Dr. Rambachan weighs in on local government and the firing of thousands
01:52attached to the now-shutdown CPEP program.
01:56He believes the system could operate more effectively.
02:00You know, local government could have been a platform for the arena in which you could have expanded employment
02:07in order to pick up some of the CPEP policies and the UAPI policies and so on.
02:13But local government needs a lot of management transformation.
02:18And I'm not seeing that coming forward yet under the new minister of local government.
02:23It is one thing to engage in public creation.
02:25It's another thing to engage in implementation and serious transformation.
02:29Rambachan warns that the country is facing an unemployment crisis far worse than the official statistics suggest.
02:38He describes the economy as being in a precarious state and says the stark reality must be urgently examined
02:46and addressed before the situation worsens further.
02:51Nicole M. Romany, TV6 News.
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