Michelle Loubon

Ma­yaro MP Win­ston Pe­ters says the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship scored a sec­ond vic­to­ry in the lo­cal gov­ern­ment elec­tion by tak­ing the Ma­yaro/Rio Claro Cor­po­ra­tion. An ec­sta­t­ic Pe­ters said: "We won all six seats. We have just gone clear. We have wiped out the PNM here to­tal­ly. The peo­ple are hap­py with the way we are per­form­ing. It is a sec­ond vic­to­ry.

"The peo­ple are see­ing the man­ner in which the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship is per­form­ing. The peo­ple do not in­tend to re­verse their de­ci­sion of May 24. The vot­ers are more in­tel­li­gent and more crit­i­cal." The ar­eas the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship, led by Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, won were Biche/Charu­ma (Glen Ram), Co­cal/Mafek­ing (Keshire Kissoon) and Ma­yaro/Guayagua­yare (Ray­mond Co­zi­er).

They were joined by Rio Claro North (Haz­arie Ramdeen), Rio Claro South (Cyril­la Zo­la Coop­er) and Ec­cles Ville (Shaf­fik Mo­hammed). Pe­ters said they had to get busy tend­ing to rur­al ne­glect and is­sues, like drainage and agri­cul­ture. He added: "A lot of the things that need to be done are de­pen­dent up­on the cen­tral and lo­cal gov­ern­ment. I am hap­py to have a team of hard­work­ing coun­cil­lors. We are go­ing to be work­ing in tan­dem."