KAY-MARIE FLETCH­ER

Se­nior Re­porter

kay-marie.fletch­er@guardian.co.tt

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she feels en­er­gised de­spite the pub­lic’s con­cern re­gard­ing her health.

Speak­ing on a Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) plat­form in Tu­na­puna on Sat­ur­day night, for­mer Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) mem­ber Lar­ry Lal­la, SC, ac­cused Per­sad-Bisses­sar of fum­bling her speech and need­ing help to walk, and ques­tioned whether she had health con­cerns.

Lal­la, who re­signed from the UNC in Feb­ru­ary, ques­tioned Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s ca­pac­i­ty to lead a gov­ern­ment in her cur­rent con­di­tion. He not­ed that an elec­tion cam­paign and run­ning a gov­ern­ment was a rigourous ac­tiv­i­ty.

How­ev­er, when asked about her health as she ar­rived at a UNC meet­ing in Barataria on Mon­day night, Per­sad-Bisses­sar told Guardian Me­dia she was “walk­ing be­hind God.”

Per­sad-Bisses­sar said, “I al­ways say put God in front and walk be­hind. I feel very en­er­gised. I feel very con­fi­dent that the UNC and our coali­tion part­ners will win this elec­tion. I have ab­solute­ly no doubts.”