Pe­ter Bal­roop

The uni­ty drum was be­ing heard all over the land and the Con­gress of the Peo­ple (COP) is pleased to dance to that mu­sic, act­ing po­lit­i­cal leader Wendy Lee Yuen told a huge crowd at the Voice of the Peo­ple ral­ly in Saith Park, Ch­agua­nas, yes­ter­day. She said the COP rep­re­sent­ed the dreams of the 148,000 peo­ple who vot­ed for the par­ty in the Oc­to­ber 2007 gen­er­al elec­tion and, like them, all na­tion­als were aware of the litany of woes that af­flict­ed the na­tion par­tic­u­lar­ly in crime, health and the pub­lic util­i­ties sec­tor. She told her lis­ten­ers they must em­u­late John F Kennedy and ask not what their coun­try could do for them, but what they could do for their coun­try.

"I ask you to build bridges be­tween each oth­er that are strong enough to sup­port us all," Lee Yuen de­clared. She want­ed to be sure chil­dren were able to ful­fil their po­ten­tial, and those who were hud­dled be­hind locked doors be­cause of fear of crime could emerge to re­claim their na­tion. COP, she swore, was com­mit­ted to join­ing hands with all present on the Voice of the Peo­ple plat­form to win the Gov­ern­ment at the next gen­er­al elec­tion.