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Thursday, May 29, 2025

Iwer George: The people want Kamla

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35 days ago
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Soca artiste Iwer George performs at the UNC’s campaign meeting at the La Joya carpark, St Joseph, on Tuesday.

Soca artiste Iwer George performs at the UNC’s campaign meeting at the La Joya carpark, St Joseph, on Tuesday.

VASHTI SINGH

Akash Sama­roo

Se­nior Re­porter/Pro­duc­er

akash.sama­roo@cnc3.co.tt

“Yel­low is the code!”

That was so­ca star Neil “Iw­er” George’s re­sponse to Guardian Me­dia’s point­ed ques­tion on if he is sup­port­ing the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) and Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar in the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion.

“Iw­er” shocked many on Tues­day evening at a UNC po­lit­i­cal meet­ing at the La Joya Sport­ing Com­plex when he ap­peared on stage at the end of the night’s pro­ceed­ings to ser­e­nade Per­sad-Bisses­sar as the par­ty cel­e­brat­ed her birth­day.

The so­ca artiste told Per­sad-Bisses­sar he had two gifts for her. One was a bou­quet of flow­ers, and the oth­er was when he took off his jack­et to re­veal a navy-blue UNC T-shirt.

It was a move that sent the crowd in­to rap­tur­ous ap­plause.

He then broke in­to a ren­di­tion of his hit song Wa­ter; how­ev­er, he changed the lyrics to say, “PNM on fire, Stu­art Young on fire, the peo­ple want Kam­la!”

Guardian Me­dia sought to con­firm with George yes­ter­day if it was a gen­uine en­dorse­ment of Per­sad-Bisses­sar and the UNC, to which he said, “Was I wear­ing a UNC T-shirt? So then that speaks for it­self. I took off my shirt; I was wear­ing a UNC T-shirt. I told the la­dy I have two presents. I brought a bou­quet, then I took off my T-shirt and had on a UNC T-shirt. Do you think I still have to an­swer if that is an en­dorse­ment?”

Iw­er ad­vised that Guardian Me­dia lis­ten to the words of his song to bet­ter un­der­stand his po­si­tion.

On the La Joya stage, Iw­er sang, “Ten years now, the peo­ple suf­fer­ing, rais­ing tax, and rais­ing every­thing. Now it’s time to vote them out of here.”

In the in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia, he said, “All the ev­i­dence is in front of you.”

He added, “Any­thing you say in pol­i­tics could fol­low you for the rest of your life. And I on­ly say what I could de­fend. And what I say in the song, I could de­fend that. And if you look at the con­sen­sus amongst the peo­ple in Trinidad and To­ba­go, 90 per cent of the peo­ple would agree with the cho­rus of the song that the peo­ple want Kam­la.”

When Guardian Me­dia un­der­scored that some en­ter­tain­ers would de­fend their ap­pear­ance at po­lit­i­cal events and say it was just a job they were be­ing paid for and not nec­es­sar­i­ly sup­port for the par­ty,

Iw­er re­spond­ed, “I wouldn’t say that.”


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