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Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Incoming PM calls for unity as he reveals his vision for T&T

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KAY-MARIE FLETCHER
Yesterday
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Incoming Prime Minister Stuart Young greets supporters at the PNM rally in Woodford Square, Port-of-Spain, yesterday.

Incoming Prime Minister Stuart Young greets supporters at the PNM rally in Woodford Square, Port-of-Spain, yesterday.

KRISTIAN DE SILVA

In­com­ing Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young’s vi­sion for the coun­try in­cludes cre­at­ing more op­por­tu­ni­ties for the youth, es­pe­cial­ly young en­ter­tain­ers and de­vel­op­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Car­ni­val as a prod­uct.

He al­so said Gov­ern­ment will fo­cus on na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty and the econ­o­my.

This was re­vealed at the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) pre­sen­ta­tion of 2025 gen­er­al elec­tion can­di­dates in Wood­ford Square, Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day.

Ad­dress­ing hun­dreds of PNM sup­port­ers, an en­er­getic Young al­so reaf­firmed his com­mit­ment to uni­fy­ing the na­tion.

Young said, “I have a vi­sion. You will hear more about our vi­sion in the com­ing weeks. But I want to tell you my vi­sion for the young peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go be­cause I stood here this evening and I was proud to see some of our young en­ter­tain­ers in Trinidad and To­ba­go and it dawned on me to tell you this sto­ry, I was one of the first peo­ple that em­ployed Hans des Vi­gnes, Whit­ney Hus­bands and Shal Mar­shall be­cause I formed Syn­er­gy TV. I promise to bring that type of en­tre­pre­neur­ial spir­it to our next Gov­ern­ment as we look af­ter our young peo­ple go­ing for­ward.”

He al­so has his sights set on en­sur­ing Car­ni­val be­comes vi­able.

“We just had a great Car­ni­val and that is a prod­uct that we, the next Gov­ern­ment, will find ways to mar­ket, to build, to make sure our young en­ter­tain­ers find more space and the way we are go­ing to do that is the same Muham­mad (Muwak­il) and oth­ers, we will call them to arms. We will form a com­mit­tee of young en­ter­tain­ers to work with the gov­ern­ment to use their young minds to think with vi­sion and out­side of the box be­cause there is a lot of po­ten­tial and di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion in our prod­ucts of Trinidad and To­ba­go and that is one area for our young peo­ple,” he added.

Stress­ing the im­por­tance of uni­ty, he called for the PNM to re­main uni­fied as he thanked his min­is­te­r­i­al col­leagues.

“As I call for uni­ty, I want to thank my col­leagues. I want to start by thank­ing our Pen­ny Beck­les. You all just heard the strength of Fos­ter Cum­mings who have done so much for our youth. I want to thank Fos­ter. I want to thank Faris. You all all know Faris. I want to thank Camille. I want to thank Mar­vin, and I want to thank every­one who is go­ing to join this bat­tle as we go for­ward be­cause you see a strong unit­ed PNM is un­beat­able. Here to­day in Wood­ford Sqau­re, I am call­ing on our par­ty to get to­geth­er. Stand with strength. Let us be uni­fied. Let us go forth and we will de­liv­er vic­to­ry be­cause we need to con­tin­ue look­ing af­ter all the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go... To­day, I am ask­ing for a uni­fied par­ty, a uni­fied coun­try, and help me to write the next chap­ter for Trinidad and To­ba­go.”

While he did not an­nounce a date for the next gen­er­al elec­tion, Young spoke to sup­port­ers about head­ing to the polls in the com­ing months.

Re­fer­ring to him­self as a “fight­er”, 50-year-old Young pledged to fight for all Trin­bag­o­ni­ans as he said Gov­ern­ment is prepar­ing to write a new chap­ter for the coun­try.

“We have a fight­er in Dr Row­ley and I promise you, you will al­so have a fight­er in Stu­art Richard Young be­cause I will fight for you Trinidad and To­ba­go... In the next few hours change will take place in Trinidad and To­ba­go, and I stand here to­day and I give the com­mit­ment, not on­ly to my par­ty who I will fight for. I will die for. I will be in the front­line for, but I give the com­mit­ment to all cit­i­zens of Trinidad and To­ba­go that I will rep­re­sent all cit­i­zens of Trinidad and To­ba­go, and I want us Trinidad and To­ba­go to be uni­fied. I want us to come to­geth­er. I want us to ful­fill the na­tion­al an­them where every creed and every race can find an equal place right here start­ing in the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment.”


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