Rad­hi­ca Sookraj

Act­ing Prime Min­is­ter Win­ston Dook­er­an has wel­comed PNM mem­bers in­to the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship. He did so dur­ing a fund-rais­ing din­ner held at Paria Suites in La Ro­maine on Sat­ur­day night. De­liv­er­ing the fea­ture ad­dress at the func­tion, Dook­er­an boast­ed that the Part­ner­ship had bro­ken the back of old pol­i­tics and had ush­ered in a new form of pol­i­tics which wel­comed in­clu­sion of all par­ties. "The en­tire coun­try is breath­ing a new sigh of re­lief and ex­pec­ta­tion," he said. "Not on­ly are we do­ing a re­mark­able job, but we are do­ing what peo­ple thought was not pos­si­ble."

He said the Part­ner­ship had made in­roads in­to diehard PNM ar­eas. "There are hard seats and easy seats...What you have done is to make hard seats easy in T&T now," Dook­er­an said, to loud ap­plause. He not­ed that the Part­ner­ship had a lot of work to be done, but with a pos­i­tive at­ti­tude and hard work, the par­ty must in­spire peo­ple to build a bet­ter T&T. He wel­comed mem­bers of the PNM to the fund-rais­ing din­ner, say­ing that the Part­ner­ship's vic­to­ry was not just a vic­to­ry for the par­ty, but for the PNM and all the peo­ple of T&T.

Mean­while, En­er­gy Min­is­ter Car­olyn Seep­er­sad-Bachan com­mend­ed all the suc­cess­ful lo­cal gov­ern­ment coun­cil­l­lors. She said they must work with the cen­tral gov­ern­ment to achieve strate­gic goals. Al­so at­tend­ing the din­ner were May­or of Ari­ma Ghas­san Yus­suf, San Fer­nan­do May­or Mar­lene Coudray and ac­tivist Val­lence Ramb­harat.