Politics
Trinidad and Tobago:Persad Bissessar gov’t defeats no-confidence motion
The Prime Minister also used her contribution to refute suggestions that the former head of the director of the Security Intelligence Agency (SIA) Reshmi Usha Ramnarine, who has since changed her name, “had something holding over her”.
“Show me where there is an illegality in that (someone changing their name). I can’t see why you have no confidence in me,” she said, adding that the suggestion by the Opposition Leader was to tarnish “my character in something that is a total falsehood.
‘Nothing is further from the truth. There is nothing to blackmail me with” she said accusing Rowley of using the Parliament to spread “ludicrous” statements about her.
“Give me evidence in this House that I encouraged wrong doing,” she added.
Earlier, Rowley said that the prime minister by her actions had forced Trinidad and Tobago to lose his front line position within the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).
He accused her also of failing to attend an important CARICOM meeting at which the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) was being debated.
