Camille Clarke

Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) chair­man and En­er­gy Min­is­ter Con­rad Enill says PNM mem­bers will not en­gage in any de­bate with any Op­po­si­tion mem­ber. Enill was speak­ing yes­ter­day with re­porters at the launch of the Car­bon Re­duc­tion Strat­e­gy Task Force. "We see no rea­son for get­ting in­volved in the event. We go where it mat­ters and ad­dress­ing is­sues that the peo­ple are con­cerned with," Enill said.

He was re­spond­ing to the set­ting up of the De­bates Com­mis­sion by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce. He said the PNM had sched­uled 40 to 50 meet­ings with the pub­lic and he con­sid­ered those to be de­bates. He added: "We think we can meet every­body by go­ing on the ground. That is the way and we don't need the me­dia cam­paign­ing. We feel we touch all the peo­ple. "It (de­bate) is some­thing we do not do," Enill said.

At the launch, sev­er­al mem­bers re­ceived let­ters of ap­point­ment to be part of the Car­bon Re­duc­tion Strat­e­gy Task Force. Enill said the launch was an­oth­er mile­stone ini­tia­tive to re­duce glob­al car­bon emis­sions. "We have a marked in­crease in green­house gas­es. It can­not be ig­nored," Enill said. He said sci­en­tists rec­om­mend 300 parts per mil­lions which is not agreed to by all and Trinidad was 72 by glob­al com­par­isons.