Kamla Persad-Bissessar is demanding a public apology from Education Minister Esther Le Gendre to Opposition MP Mickela Panday for her verbal attack on the Oropouche West MP during a debate in Parliament last Friday."I call on Le Gendre to apologise. Apologise!" the Siparia MP said at the UNC's Monday night meeting in Arima.
"I am totally disappointed with you, I must say, Esther Le Gendre, that came from you. You are the Minister of Education, you supposed to be looking and helping the children and the young ones in this country."
At the last Parliament sitting when Panday made her maiden contribution in the debate on the Children's Authority Amendment Act, Le Gendre attacked the young MP, saying, "One so young and so full of potential should not allow herself to be overshadowed by the ghost of a failed politician."
She also criticized the MP's father, former prime minister Basdeo Panday, and summed up Panday's speech as "bile and reminiscent of her father".
Persad-Bissessar said, "I want to tell her she should start doing her work and stop dealing with the UNC MPs on the Opposition bench."
She said the PNM was famous for attacking Opposition members on a personal level when they cannot answer to the arguments the Opposition put forward. She said that's what Mickela Panday did when she slammed Government for its eight-year failure to bring legislation to protect the nation's children.
The former Attorney General said Le Gendre should not be criticizing Panday but dealing with the "national disgrace" - the leaking of CAPE examination papers.
"Madam, you should resign. I fed up calling on them to resign but they have no decency. They have no shame," she said.
"Go and look after the children's business and leave Mickela Panday alone. She gave a brilliant contribution on Friday and we are proud of her. When you can answer the facts she put forward to you, then we'll talk. In the meantime, keep to yourself," she said.
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