Long Island MP Loretta Butler-Turner yesterday said Prime Minister Perry Christie's criticism of her in the House of Assembly Thursday night showed that her recent attacks against the government have gotten under his skin.
"I had basically showed where the government led under him demonstrated a high level of incompetence," Butler-Turner said. "I think that must have hit a very raw nerve because the anger demonstrated by him last night was certainly very high.
"I think that the only way that he felt that he could attack me was not on context but actually on what he perceived to be, I guess, my physical appearance and I guess what he is now saying is my incompetence."

As he wrapped up the debate of an amendment to the Constitutional Referendum Act, Christie questioned how the Long Island MP, who had ministerial oversight of the Department of Social Services, could accuse him of incompetence.
"I never mind what she says, I always resent the degree that she is patronizing," the prime minister said. "It doesn't fit her, it doesn't become her, but so be it. I want her to know that the very first problem confronted by my government was the level of incompetence by her in the performance of her responsibility of her portfolio as a minister of social services."
He said when his party assumed office in May it found that children housed in the Simpson Penn Centre for Boys did not have bedding, mattresses and proper indoor plumbing.
"She subjected poor children who had no means of taking care of themselves to savage and barbaric conditions," he said.
"She is a walking case of incompetence, she walks heavily with it, she is burdened by it and she cannot escape it," he added. "Coming around here talking about incompetence.
"She should be ashamed of herself and even though it is difficult for her to walk light, she should come in here, Mr. Speaker, at least having respect to the point where you can deal with people respectfully."
Last week in the House, the Long Island MP heckled the prime minister as he made a communication on the upcoming gambling referendum. While seated, she made repeated references to his government's "incompetence" and eventually walked out of the Lower Chamber before he could finish his speech.

When she gave her contribution on the amendment Thursday, she questioned how Prime Minister Perry Christie and the lawyers in his Cabinet could come to Parliament weeks ago with no mention of legislation needed to facilitate the gambling vote only to return with an amendment meant to pave the way for the referendum.

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