Moonilal: Government hypocritical on IWD

OROPOUCHE East MP Dr Roodal Moonilal on Monday claimed the failure of the Government to fix problems at the Ramai Trace Hindu School makes any greetings it extends on International Women's Day "hypocritcal and deceitful."

Monday was International Women's Day.

In a statement, Moonilal said the school was more than 90 per cent complete by the time the former UNC-led People's Partnership coalition government demitted office in September 2015. He claimed that for over five years, the PNM has "steadfastly refused to finish and put the facility to use."

He charged, "The appalling treatment of female students of the Ramai Trace Hindu School is a gross and continuing example of the Government's deception."

While the school is co-educational, Moonilal said the majority of the girls attending the school come from rural and disadvantaged communities. He added that the students have had to be inconvenienced by having makeshift classes in a mandir several miles away. Moonilal accused the PNM of leaving "innocent and vulnerable girls to experience unnecessary distress and misery by its senseless and spiteful refusal to complete construction of the school."

On this basis, Moonilal charged that any "bleeding heart statements" from the Government for International Women's Day are "blatantly insincere and worthless."