00:00Opposition leader Penelope Beckles accuses Prime Minister Kamala Passat-Bissessa
00:04of wanting to push a false narrative concerning the murder of WPC Anouska Eversley.
00:10Passat-Bissessa has indicated that it was not an external attack on the police service
00:15and the national security apparatus.
00:17She said there is no need for a curfew in that regard
00:21and called on law-abiding citizens to go about their lawful business as usual.
00:26This is how Beckles interprets the Prime Minister's remarks.
00:56Continue going around normal. How could you go around normal when a woman has been strangled?
01:05According to Beckles, where it occurred is irrelevant to the act.
01:10It matters not whether it's a police station, whether it's a market, whether it's a school, whether it's a house.
01:17Murder is murder. And police is police. And they have the responsibility to keep us safe.
01:26So don't come and tell people, continue your business as normal.
01:31She anticipates that the government will throw it back on the PNM's failure to support the extended state of emergency.
01:38But Beckles stands by that decision.
01:41Well, it's true. We didn't support it because as far as we are concerned, state of emergency is not a
01:49plan to fix crime.
01:53You can't send home 50,000 people and you promise them ham, lamb and jam.
02:01You send them home.
02:03So many of you know right in here that you are seeing mothers coming to you begging for a little,
02:09you know, a little thing every day, something to eat.
02:12Things were never so bad as it is. It is the worst government that we have ever seen.
02:18Furthermore, she says the calling of a new SOE against the backdrop of what has been transpiring crime-wise proves
02:26its ineffectiveness.
02:27Our innocent Jelania Armstrong, 80 years old, robbed of her future during a failed state of emergency.
02:42Police officer, Anusha Eversley, brutally murdered in a police station during a failed state of emergency.
02:5350 infant bodies unlawfully discarded and they will have you believe that is a normal thing.
03:02According to Beckles, the country has already crossed 100 murders for the year.
03:07The opposition says despite this, the prime minister has not presented herself to the media to answer to the public.
03:15Alicia Boucher, TV6 News.
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