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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Gyp­sy at ILP ral­ly:

Vote out Kamla

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For­mer gov­ern­ment min­is­ter Win­ston "Gyp­sy" Pe­ters yes­ter­day urged sup­port­ers of the In­de­pen­dent Lib­er­al Par­ty (ILP) to vote out Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and her ca­bal to­mor­row when they cast their votes.

Pe­ters brought the cur­tain down with his ren­di­tion of Kam­la at the ILP's Grand Elec­tion Ral­ly at Chrissie Ter­race Recre­ation Ground, En­ter­prise.

He walked hand-in-hand on stage with ILP po­lit­i­cal leader Jack Warn­er and made a ten-minute ap­pear­ance.

Be­fore his per­for­mance, Pe­ters told the small group of par­ty sup­port­ers, "Fate has a way of do­ing things that hu­man be­ings can hard­ly ever imag­ine.

"No­body could have told me in 2007, when Jack Warn­er and I walked the length and breadth of Trinidad and To­ba­go with Ramesh Lawrence Ma­haraj to put Kam­la in pow­er, and that it would take Jack Warn­er and I to go through the length and breadth of T&T to take Kam­la Per­sad out of pow­er."

He asked for God's for­give­ness for foist­ing Per­sad-Bisses­sar on the peo­ple of the coun­try but said to­mor­row "we must go to the polls and en­sure that we vote Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and her ca­bal out."

In his fea­ture ad­dress, 74-year-old Warn­er said it was a long, grilling cam­paign for the ILP. He claimed Per­sad-Bisses­sar ex­act­ed as much as she could from the trea­sury and the Gov­ern­ment be­cause she stayed three months over­time.

He said: "Her re­al name in school was Push­wat­tie but she didn't like that name so she asked them to call her Kam­la, and that's why she is Kam­la to­day but what­ev­er her name is, on Mon­day, she will be his­to­ry."

He said Ch­agua­nas East need­ed rep­re­sen­ta­tion and promised to el­e­vate the im­age of En­ter­prise with a swim­ming pool, li­brary and prop­er health cen­tre. He al­so promised three schol­ar­ships for five years to be paid from his salary "which I will not take for five years."

He said, "The time for change is now and if you miss the boat now, your chil­dren will pay a dear price."


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