RALPH BANWARIE
Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has promised to fight in Parliament and on the streets of Sangre Grande and Manzanilla for the rights of the people.
She also said the Opposition would not stand up or support any wrongdoing from this “bullying and scare mongering Government.”
She was speaking at the Monday Night Forum at the North Eastern Auditorium.
Persad-Bissessar also told the audience that the PNM Government should not to be trusted as it had stalled “our economy with ineffective administration,”
She said Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley had no plan and “his administration is ill equipped to lead the nation forward.”
She said the UNC government had inherited three times worst in the Treasury when her party first came into government.
Persad-Bissessar added: “They are failures and non-performers. They only making excuses and shameless propaganda with their continuous blaming of the Opposition.
“The Peoples Partnership government can boast that they were able to settle 135 outstanding wage agreement, so what they talking about.
“I can tell Rowley some of our achievements and things that were done. Right in Sangre Grande the multi-indoor sport complex which was opened by the PNM Government was the flagship of the UNC and they so boldface they never acknowledged the UNC government.
“They thiefing projects from the UNC and saying it is theirs. They so boldface.
“The PNM Government could not show one project during its term in office. The PNM could only show one sheet of paper with their achievements,” she said.
She added: “Local Government elections is in the air and the PNM cannot show one piece of Local Government reform. They always talk about Local Government reform for every Local Government elections.
“This shameless PNM Government is spending $200 million on Brian Lara Stadium, which had a cost overrun 20 times, instead of paying $1 million, which was agreed by the PP government, to families of police officers who were killed in the line of duty.”
She also questioned why the PNM had not done more to turn around the economy.
She said she agreed with Rowley that “our gas shortage is having an impact on the economy.”
Persad-Bissessar said the PP government took the necessary action to increase natural gas production by changing the related laws 14 times so as to provide incentives to companies to invest and drill.
“You see the PP had a plan for governance during its tenure. The PP recognised that they had to be innovative to deal with challenges,” she added.