Gail Alexan­der

Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porter

Dur­ing the cur­rent cut and thrust of po­lit­i­cal de­bates dur­ing the on­go­ing Gen­er­al Elec­tion bat­tle, politi­cians have been de­liv­er­ing some gems and jabs on the hus­tings. To­day, we con­tin­ue to de­liv­er some of the state­ments that may have been missed.

Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young at Tues­day's Point Fortin meet­ing:

"This is not about mak­ing false promis­es - I will nev­er do that! ... the next PNM gov­ern­ment will de­liv­er the change. This isn't ole talk or some­body read­ing a script they gave him or her to read try­ing to ma­m­aguy the pop­u­la­tion. This is PNM talk un­der Young! We'll fight, we'll fight, we'll fight for what is right! You give us the man­date And I will bring it home!"

UNC Cou­va North can­di­date Jear­lean John on the par­ty's Mon­day Barataria plat­form:

"Some­thing's hap­pen­ing, the ground is ready to take us to vic­to­ry ... every­where you go you hear the same thing 'We fed up of PNM, we want change!' TV6 polls on how peo­ple feel about elec­tion show 46 per cent for UNC, 15 per cent for PNM. Kei­th Row­ley get eight per cent ap­proval - and Stu­art Young be­low the white line in the road. They gone! We win­ning!"

Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young at Tues­day's Point Fortin meet­ing:

"Again - se­nior cit­i­zens' your pen­sion is safe! They are ly­ing to you! The UNC's em­barked on a cam­paign of lies, dis­hon­esty and mis­in­for­ma­tion. By to­mor­row lunchtime, they'll take what I've said here and ma­nip­u­late it in­to their lies - watch and see! And that is what 'yel­low is the code' means but we say red is the word!"

UNC Cou­va North can­di­date Jear­lean John on the par­ty's Mon­day Barataria plat­form:

"Stu­art Young say flour gone up! Stu­art Young told us in as­ton­ish­ment, satl­fish gone up! Maybe is be­cause all the time Stu­art Young salt­fish was free! ... Kam­la is the Box Drain Queen! She's go­ing to give you box drains! She's gonna give you box drain in your rook-kung-ku-tung kung!"

PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil leader An­cil Den­nis at last Sun­day's To­ba­go ral­ly:

"... You al­so have go­ing up in Cou­va North - and I hope the daugh­ter of the late Bas­deo Pan­day cut her tail good and prop­er - is Jear­lean John ... there they are talk­ing about 'yel­low is the code' and I see PNM peo­ple say­ing 'blue is the code', sor­ry 'red is the code' and I see the UNC in To­ba­go iden­ti­fy­ing as the TPP say­ing, 'blue is the code'. For­get code ac­cord­ing to colours! This elec­tion is about code of con­duct!"

OW­TU's Christo­pher Jack­man ad­dress­ing UNC's Mara­bel­la at­ten­dees on Tues­day:

"Right now I feel we're in good times - we're about to see the backs of Colm Im­bert, Fitzger­ald Hinds ... The re­sponse is sup­posed to be a lot more fiery than that peo­ple..."

Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young at last Sun­day's To­ba­go's ral­ly:

"I re­turned to T&T in 1998 and I've been very for­tu­nate in my pro­fes­sion­al life. Peo­ple say maybe it's be­cause of dili­gence, work­ing hard, in­tel­li­gence. But I think God has smiled on me."

UNC Ca­roni Cen­tral can­di­date David Lee at Tues­day's Mara­bel­la meet­ing:

"God is great to me! They can't keep a good Chi­nee down ... I didn't think I'd ever make three pa­pers' front page ..."

PNM Point Fortin can­di­date Kennedy Richards at Tues­day's Point Fortin meet­ing:

"(UNC) idea of youth de­vel­op­ment is to have a catch and res­cue com­pe­ti­tion on Face­book and giv­ing young black boys $200 and $500 to do Face­book videos to cuss PNM ... I know my op­po­nents are frus­trat­ed, as they've been di­ag­nosed with po­lit­i­cal im­po­tence."

UNC host Michael Kerr in Barataria Mon­day:

"I call St Joseph can­di­date De­vesh Ma­haraj the lo­cal George Clooney of pol­i­tics, s we ex­pect to get a hike of fe­male vot­ers in St Joseph."

PNM To­ba­go Coun­cil leader An­cil Den­nis at the To­ba­go meet­ing last Sun­day:

"I saw where the UNC leader said she's fi­nal­ly purged the UNC. All my life I know a purge to be some­thing where it's an op­por­tu­ni­ty to ex­pel every­thing's that's un­want­ed, tox­ic, waste­ful and dam­ag­ing to the body. There­fore, my ques­tion to Mrs Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, the UNC and you the peo­ple, is that if the UNC is purged, how come Mrs Per­sad-Bisses­sar is still there?"