Gail Alexan­der

The Op­po­si­tion UNC will be open­ing nom­i­na­tions for Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment elec­tions ahead fol­low­ing a de­ci­sion at the next UNC Na­tion­al Ex­ec­u­tive meet­ing, says UNC leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar spoke about the nom­i­na­tion plans at last night’s UNC Mon­day night fo­rum.

The UNC’s Na­tion­al Ex­ec­u­tive (Na­tex) will de­cide on a date for open­ing nom­i­na­tions. Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment polls are due with­in 90 days af­ter De­cem­ber 2.

“Row­ley your po­lit­i­cal days are num­bered, we’re com­ing for you and we’ll not stop un­til we get you out of of­fice!” she de­clared.

Per­sad-Biss­esar said in the com­ing weeks the UNC will al­so re­con­vene Par­lia­men­tary arm meet­ings - halt­ed due to COVID-19 re­stric­tions - as well as hold con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive polls, Women and Youth arms elec­tions and Na­tion­al Ex­ec­u­tive elec­tions.

“These are due and now is the time for this. To all com­ers, manos a manos, I’ll take on all com­ers and will beat every one of them.”

The ex­ec­u­tive team Per­sad-Bisses­sar led in the 2020 Na­tex elec­tions, won. UNC’s lead­er­ship elec­tion is ex­pect­ed in 2023.

Per­sad- Bisses­sar al­so said T&T is be­com­ing a Gestapo “po­lice state” and the on­ly way to fight it is “unite and fight them.”

Oth­er speak­ers in­clud­ing MP Dr Roodal Mooni­lal and Sen­a­tor Wade Mark echoed the uni­ty calls.

Mooni­lal said the UNC is with­in strik­ing dis­tance of Gov­ern­ment.

“We’re not de­pend­ing on any­body to get seats, we will win two and more, keep the uni­ty and hold to­geth­er. Let us band to­geth­er!”

Mark said the “Sun” is ris­ing again. Per­sad-Bisses­sar said the “troops are gath­er­ing and the “storm clouds and UNC is ready to take them on any time.

Among crit­i­cisms of the gov­ern­ment she said it was shame­ful that on the day school is re­open­ing, the fu­el price hike which Gov­ern­ment re­cent­ly an­nounced, will be­gin, “I im­plore you to give a one-time uni­form grant so par­ents won’t have to choose be­tween giv­ing their chil­dren food or uni­forms,” she ap­pealed.

Mooni­lal in his ad­dress claimed Gov­ern­ment “pri­va­tised” the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions’ of­fice by hir­ing the UK’s Ed­monds, Mar­shall and McMa­hon firm to di­rect TTPS to “go af­ter” Gov­ern­ment’s op­po­nents and the ex-Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er had alert­ed that mon­ey was passed to TTPS for this.

But he said whistle­blow­er re­ports from the probes showed things were not look­ing “bright” with the in­ves­ti­ga­tions, no PP Gov­ern­ment of­fi­cial was like­ly “to be avail­able for pros­e­cu­tion” in is­sues like EM­B­DC and Life­s­port, but one is­sue could ‘in­volve a per­son of sig­nif­i­cant po­lit­i­cal in­flu­ence,’ so they came on a po­lit­i­cal witch­hunt!”

Mooni­lal said his lawyers will alert the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions of the “high state po­lit­i­cal cam­paign” by the UK firm be­ing done for Gov­ern­ment in the name of fight­ing white-col­lar crime and will write UK’s Law So­ci­ety to com­plain of the covert role played by the UK lawyers.

Mooni­lal said ear­li­er this year, com­ing through a US air­port, two law en­force­ment of­fi­cers ap­proached him, say­ing they’d not­ed de­vel­op­ments in T&T and in­ter­viewed him for two hours on “Row­ley’s con­duct.”

The UNC’s Anil Robert ac­cused UNC MP Bhoe Tewarie of “join­ing PNM” af­ter Tewarie crit­i­cised Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s plans. He said Tewarie had been UNC’s Plan­ning Min­is­ter. Roberts al­so slammed Vas­ant Bharath, “Go in peace, Vas­ant...”

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