Don’t go down that road, was how Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley responded to recent inflammatory statements by one Aranguez pundit who said East Indians were being targeted by urban youth along the East West corridor.

Dr. Rowley condemned the implication that Afro-trinis are the perpetrators of crime while East Indians are the victims, saying crime impacts each citizen.

“When the Opposition Leader and two or any other number of pundits want to get up in this country and say that the crime we are all facing, that we are all exposed to, that we are all victims of, when they want to get up and say that it is black people who are attacking Indian people, I say today you all stop that! Don’t go down that road! That’s a road of no return.”

The Prime Minister was speaking at the PNM’s Family Day in Toco on Sunday. 

He also commented on last Friday’s bomb threats at schools across the country, suggesting the timing of the incident may not have been a coincidence.

“You think that it is accidental, that, on the very day that they are having a vote of no confidence in the Minister of National Security who they had been pillorying non-stop, that on that day, you wake up in the morning and virtually every school in the country has a bomb threat?” he asked.

“You think that’s a joke? You think that’s by accident? You know that if you shut down every school in this country by calling in a bomb threat, the chaos and trauma that you will cause to those children and the fear in their parents? Of all the days in the year, the one day that happens is the day when they are coming to the Parliament to move a vote of no confidence in the National Security Minister,” the PM said.