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Monday, June 2, 2025

Kamla to deal with church issue tonight

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?Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­mains con­vinced that State re­sources are be­ing used in an im­prop­er man­ner to fa­cil­i­tate the con­tro­ver­sial erec­tion of a church linked to Prime Min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning. Per­sad-Bisses­sar said doc­u­men­ta­tion re­flect­ing dis­crep­an­cies in Cab­i­net's ap­proval to grant 0.3 hectares of State land to the con­tentious church, af­ter the cor­ner­stone was laid, would be re­vealed dur­ing the Op­po­si­tion Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress' third "Meet the Con­stituents Tour," tonight, in Diego Mar­tin. "In the state­ment (Prime Min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning) made in Par­lia­ment, there were sev­er­al in­ac­cu­ra­cies made and some­one has, in fact, put in my post­box a copy of the Cab­i­net note in re­la­tion to this mat­ter, and I will be speak­ing more on it to­mor­row (to­day).

"There was both a 2005 and a 2006 (Cab­i­net note re­lat­ed to the church in the Heights of Gua­napo)," Per­sad-Bisses­sar said yes­ter­day, af­ter ar­riv­ing at the 2010 Sanatan Dhar­ma Ma­ha Sab­ha (SDMS) an­nu­al chil­dren's Phag­wa cel­e­bra­tions at Tu­na­puna Hin­du School. Per­sad-Bisses­sar was re­spond­ing to con­flict­ing state­ments by Prime Min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning, last Fri­day, that The Light­house of the Lord Je­sus Christ ob­tained Cab­i­net ap­proval in Sep­tem­ber, 2005, to con­struct its con­gre­ga­tion on State lands in the Heights of Gua­napo. Man­ning's state­ments con­tra­dict­ed one from the Prime Min­is­ter's Of­fice, last week, which stat­ed that the "req­ui­site Cab­i­net ap­proval" for the land came in 2006.

Ac­cord­ing to the cor­ner­stone at The Light­house of the Lord Je­sus Christ, the church's foun­da­tion stone was laid on De­cem­ber 30, 2005, by Rev Ju­liana Pe�a, re­port­ed­ly Man­ning's spir­i­tu­al ad­vis­er. She has been us­ing her moth­er's maid­en name and dropped her mar­ried name, De­von­ish. "It is clear that there has been State-in­ter­ven­tion. It is clear that State re­sources are be­ing used, and there­fore a full ex­pla­na­tion is re­quired as nec­es­sary, once the State is in­volved," Per­sad-Bisses­sar said.(KM)


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