MP Mohit calls for Minister Donna Cox resignation
The statement by Minister of Social Development and Family Services Donna Cox relative to the aborted hamper distribution at South Park, San Fernando is a poignant realization of how the PNM Government views the poor and needy of this country.
What is even more startling is the downright vilification of hardcore PNM areas that are not required at this time to vote and therefore can be trampled upon with impunity.
The statement from Minister Cox portends the inhumanity of this PNM regime, since it is evident to all that this country is on the brink of collapse as demonstrated by high levels of unemployment, lack of capital injection, and no foreign or domestic expenditure whether through the covid-19 pandemic or the Government’s malaise and mismanagement.
The Minister of Social Development and Family Services should be fully cognizant of the deleterious circumstances occasioned by these events on the population.
Yet, against these background circumstances the Minister chastises the poor and needy, openly and callously ascribing greed on their part in their quest for food hampers.
How insensitive and downright uncaring; this is not the time for such a heartless and brutal person to be in charge of the Social Development portfolio.
The Minister must demit office immediately, either she tenders her resignation or be relieved of office by the Prime Minister. No amount of apologies will suffice.
The current situation requires someone with compassion, love and empathy towards a population on a precipice of economic starvation.
Vandana Mohit
MP Chaguanas East