Sascha Wil­son

Con­gress of the Peo­ple can­di­date Car­ol Cuffy-Dowlat says Prime Min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning has em­bar­rassed the founder and fa­ther of the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) Dr Er­ic Williams. "Gone are the days when you would have been proud to say great is the PNM. The PNM to­day is the Patrick Na­tion­al Move­ment and not the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment." She ap­pealed to PNM sup­port­ers to save their par­ty by vot­ing out the PNM.

"If you love the PNM save your par­ty, you need to vote Patrick Man­ning out, you need to vote the PNM out at this time." Cuffy-Dowlat, who is con­test­ing Man­ning for the San Fer­nan­do East seat, was speak­ing at a Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship meet­ing at Mar­ket Square, Point Fortin, on Thurs­day night. Claim­ing that Man­ning had failed as a fa­ther of the na­tion, she called on him to re­turn the chil­dren of the na­tion to their moth­er. "Please fa­ther, please give the chil­dren of the na­tion a chance," she said.

De­scrib­ing him­self as a ser­vant rep­re­sen­ta­tive, COP can­di­date for Point Fortin Nyahu­ma Obi­ka, lament­ed that the un­em­ploy­ment rate in the con­stituen­cy was over 14 per cent, un­em­ploy­ment rate among the women was 11 per cent high­er than the na­tion­al rate and pover­ty rate was 25 per cent. Read­ing from Gov­ern­ment's 2004 bud­get speech, Obi­ka said they had promised a high­way from San Fer­nan­do to Point Fortin and the con­struc­tion of the Point Fortin Hos­pi­tal. (SW)