Kamla Persad Bissessar letter to PM Modi ignites truffle in Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago: The UNC Constituency Executive of San Fernando West commend and fully supported the Political Leader Kamla Persad Bissessar in her effort to obtain COVID-19 vaccines from India. "In a time of a pandemic where we require strong leadership and political will, Persad Bissessar has demonstrated this as the government continues to fail our citizens," the statement read.

"Our nation has been faced with an incompetent and inefficient PNM government who has no plan, no direction and no foresight for the well-being of its citizens. The government has already miscarried this nation with their poor response and inactions towards the crime situation. The PNM Government has proven that they are confused and their only solution is to blame the opposition."

"We are calling on the government to step up or step down and stop playing with the lives of citizens," read the statment.

Notably, Leader of Opposition and Former Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar has earlier written a letter to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking vaccine assistance for Trinidad and Tobago, which ignited the brawl between government and opposition.

Some of the minister lambasted Bissessar for misleading the public and asked her to apologise for her remarks or letter. She outspokenly refused all the allegations by government ministers and asked them if they cannot work for the people, someone would have to take care for the welfare of the society.

However, most of the Caribbean nations has secured the vaccine from India by the shrewd leadership of Dominican PM and Chairman of OECS, Roosevelt Skerrit. The Caribbean has managed to secure over 500,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines from India and currently are moving forward to immunize frontline workers and other people among the most vulnerable to the virus.

So far, Trinidad and Tobago has not managed to acquire any vaccine from any organisation or more specifically India.