She told reporters attending the event in Preysal in Central Trinidad that she has her Christmas eve plans well organised.
"I intend to wrap some presents for my children, grandchildren and do a lot of baking on Christmas Day and to spend some time with my family because there just hasn’t been any time in the last several months,” she said.
The Prime Minister also spoke about her most important wish. "My Christmas wish is really for the national community. I would like to see a reduction in crime. I think that would be the best Christmas wish I could have."
Several cabinet ministers attended the event at which Persad-Bissessar distributed food hampers to the needy. Various sponsors provided the gifts for distribution to constituents through the MP for each constituency.
Inshan Mohammed, Programme Director of the TTCard said 4,100 people would get hampers, with each of the 41 constituencies receiving 100. The plan is for each MP to collect the hampers for distribution and pass them on to their constituents.
But Opposition Leader Keith Rowley has instructed members of his parliamentary caucus not to take the hampers, which he called an abuse of funds.
"The PNM would be no part of that. I have instructed PNM MPs not to go to Preysal to collect any hampers bought by taxpayers' monies and being used as political gimmickry and PR by this floundering Government", Rowley told the Trinidad Express.
He added, "What they want to do is to hand us a few hampers in Preysal to justify the millions of dollars they spend and to make it look as though we subscribe to it, when they are giving to their constituents the lion's share, ten times what they giving to us."
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Lovely work and a really nice way to make poor people feel good - its' hard enough you know without having no money to get a Christmas Hamper.
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