Kim­ber­ly Mack­han

Prime min­is­te­r­i­al-hope­ful Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has de­clared the next five days as a time for yel­low. Per­sad-Bisses­sar called on her Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship fol­low­ers to sport some­thing yel­low for each day un­til Sun­day, the day be­fore the May 24 gen­er­al elec­tion. She said: "This is the week of yel­low...Wear some­thing yel­low...The light will rise as our na­tion moves to­ward lib­er­a­tion day. Wear some­thing yel­low every­day this week...Tie some­thing yel­low on your gate on your post, what­ev­er it is." Per­sad-Bisses­sar was ad­dress­ing hun­dreds in San­gre Grande at yes­ter­day af­ter­noon's start of the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship mo­tor­cade along the East-West Cor­ri­dor.

She apol­o­gised for be­ing un­able to at­tend the UNC pub­lic po­lit­i­cal meet­ing in the area over the week­end. "(UNC chair­man) Jack (Warn­er) would have told you on Sat­ur­day that we have some do­mes­tic se­cu­ri­ty mat­ters to deal with and I know you have for­giv­en me (for be­ing ab­sent) be­cause I see you here in your num­bers," Per­sad-Bisses­sar said.

"I was told by my se­cu­ri­ty peo­ple that it was im­por­tant for us to put those se­cu­ri­ty arrange­ments in place and that was what we spent Sat­ur­day evening do­ing." She said that the count­down was on to vote out Prime Min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning from of­fice and that there were less than "six more days to go."

"Do not be afraid. Do not fear the threats, the in­tim­i­da­tion, all the smear cam­paigns against the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship would not stop the change that is com­ing for the 24th," Per­sad-Bisses­sar said. "You know in the Lot­to, they say if you do not have a tick­et, you do not have a chance. If you do not cast that vote, you do not have that chance for change. You are now a part of his­to­ry in the mak­ing. We ask you to make sure." Per­sad-Bisses­sar cau­tioned sup­port­ers against be­com­ing com­pla­cent and re­frain­ing from vot­ing in the elec­tion. "We have to make sure that every sin­gle vote is cast. Do not get car­ried away but all the crowds. It is not over un­til 6 pm on Mon­day 24," she said. "Stay fo­cused. Do not get in any fight. Do not get in any quar­rel."