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Monday, May 12, 2025

ELECTION SURGE - FINAL PUSH

And also from the Platform ...

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17 days ago
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The stages are be­ing set up at Ed­die Hart Ground in Tacarigua and the Aranguez Sa­van­nah in San Juan, trans­port for thou­sands is be­ing arranged all around, plan­ning meet­ings are be­gin­ning pre-dawn - and jer­seys of cer­tain colours are be­ing care­ful­ly pre­pared for to­mor­row's fi­nal ral­lies and events by po­lit­i­cal par­ties, on the cusp to Mon­day's Gen­er­al Elec­tion. Here's more from the plat­form in case you missed it:

PNM Trinci­ty/Mal­oney can­di­date Camille Robin­son-Reg­is at Wednes­day's PNM Women's Plat­form in St James:

"In these days be­fore the elec­tion, they will try any­thing to dis­tract us, any kind of wicked­ness, so I say 'St Michael the Archangel, de­fend us in bat­tle! Be our pro­tec­tion against wicked­ness and smears of the dev­il..may God re­buke him!... Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar doesn't have the fa­cil­i­ty, men­tal or phys­i­cal, to han­dle the af­fairs of T&T... she's un­fit to lead T&T! She was un­fit be­tween 2010 and 2015 and now at 73, she's com­plete­ly un­fit! You see Dr Row­ley? Sev­en­ty-five years and fit fit, fit as ever! Kam­la is on­ly two years younger than Dr Row­ley, watch Kam­la - she's un­fit to gov­ern. She can't even gov­ern her­self!"

PEP/UNC's Phillip Alexan­der at Wednes­day’s UNC’s PoS meet­ing:

"This is not a po­lit­i­cal par­ty to de­feat. This is a band of demons to cast out! Mon­day we vot­ing with prayers! ... Nor­mal­ly, I does be the gang­ster on the podi­um but (PSA pres­i­dent) Fe­l­isha Thomas is the best gang­ster! I can't even fol­low the lyrics! ... every time I look around the army (Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar) has as­sem­bled, over­whelmed by the tal­ent, strength. This is no easy squad here! You could imag­ine be­ing in Stu­art Young and Row­ley place know­ing this squad rid­ing for you?! ... Small­er par­ties: stand down, don't in­ter­rupt these peo­ple date with des­tiny Mon­day ... can­di­dates of small par­ties: come over to the coali­tion ... T&T on fire for change, and on Mon­day we go­ing to burn down that evil em­pire!"

PNM Ari­ma can­di­date Pen­ny Beck­les at Wednes­day's PNM Women's Plat­form in St James :

"When we talk of the Bal­isi­er we talk of a flower - if you burn it, it will grow back, if you chop it, it will grow back. A plant that con­tin­ues to sur­vive ... Don't get con­fused by this "Yel­low is the Code." Pol­i­tics and gov­er­nance isn't about any code! ... if they feel they can use your vote, don't al­low them to use you! It's a lie that PNM has done noth­ing for you. Un­like some places, you have the right to vote - ex­er­cise it! Com­pare the two par­ties! Com­pare the two lead­ers and choose for your chil­dren, your grand­chil­dren and your fu­ture!"

OW­TU pres­i­dent gen­er­al An­cel Ro­get at Wednes­day’s UNC’s PoS meet­ing:

“The op­por­tu­ni­ty pre­sent­ed on Mon­day is when we be­come em­ploy­ers and with this fin­ger on Mon­day we’re go­ing to fire all of them and hire the UNC ... I read­ing the head­lines al­ready ... I dream it about four days straight and every time I dream, it is be straight. I dream 36, I play Row­ley 'Big mon­ey in mih pock­et'. I does dream straight ... so we go­ing to fire dem!”

NTA St Joseph can­di­date Gary Grif­fith at Wednes­day's Mt Lam­bert meet­ing:

"What they (UNC) have done is cre­ate a cos­met­ic thing to fool you in­to be­liev­ing there's a 'place' for me and a 'space' for me in the UNC coali­tion. But it's not a coali­tion of in­ter­ests! It's a coali­tion of Kam­la's in­ter­ests ... choose your lead­ers wise­ly! Look at the in­di­vid­u­als' track record and see if they have the ca­pa­bil­i­ty to make T&T safe again."

Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young at Wednes­day's PNM Women's Plat­form in St James:

"As that last song said, every sen­si­ble man knows that woman is boss and every sen­si­ble man fol­lows the ad­vice giv­en to him by a woman in his life. So, I thought I'd use the op­por­tu­ni­ty to ask the women of the na­tion to help the rest of us to make the on­ly sen­si­ble de­ci­sion on April 28 ... by talk­ing to women about what I know mat­ters most to you, since as I walked through the crowd one can­not help but no­tice women look­ing af­ter chil­dren..."

UNC Ca­roni Cen­tral can­di­date David Lee at Wednes­day's PoS meet­ing:

"I thought Chi­nee peo­ple could count. I could count...I heard Stu­art Young said the coali­tion's of­fer (to pub­lic ser­vants) start­ing at 10 per cent but PNM's start­ing at five per cent. My 92-year-old moth­er ask if I heard what Young say­ing and she say, "I thought Chi­nee could count!' I don't know about Stu­art Young, what genes or race he has but I'm the re­al deal ...He talk­ing hog­wash...that's what Row­ley did to our coun­try - put a boy in charge and we must run that boy out of town on Mon­day...!"

PNM Barataria/San Juan can­di­date Muhammed Ibrahim at Tues­day's St Joseph meet­ing:

"Things look­ing good in Barataria/San Juan! The oth­er side .... want to know where they base go­ing ... I can­not be­lieve that through­out my con­stituen­cy, peo­ple of oth­er po­lit­i­cal par­ties have the in­ter­est for this week­end to throw a 'zest' par­ty in al­most every con­stituen­cy where they'll fu­el youths with al­co­hol and mar­i­jua­na, lookin to pull them in a cor­ner, give them $500 so they can stick their hand be­fore Mon­day in in­deli­ble ink ...I want to tell the youths to tell them 'we ent zes'ing with you, we bounc­ing with the PNM..."

COP leader Prakash Ra­mad­har at Wednes­day's PoS UNC meet­ing:

"The ground has shift­ed ... our friends of the OW­TU - Mr Ro­get, a man who I re­spect and I want to tell you, was a lit­tle bit afraid of .... in the past, is now a part­ner in the prepa­ra­tion for T&T's fu­ture. I want to make it abun­dant­ly clear, the task ahead of us is not nec­es­sar­i­ly an easy one - there's pro­pa­gan­da afoot in T&T for the past many years and to date, we can take noth­ing for grant­ed!"


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