Sascha Wil­son

Se­nior Re­porter 

sascha.wil­son@gua­di­an.co.tt

With the na­tion­al spot­light on to­day’s Bud­get pre­sen­ta­tion by Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is ac­knowl­edg­ing that they “can­not give every­body every­thing.”

Speak­ing at her Di­vali cel­e­bra­tions at her con­stituen­cy of­fice in Pe­nal on Sat­ur­day night, how­ev­er, Per­sad-Bisses­sar promised that they would cer­tain­ly try.

Briefly touch­ing on the Bud­get, she said, jok­ing­ly, “We go to Par­lia­ment on Mon­day and is blows and Bar­ry will say, ‘sit down’,” as she made ref­er­ence to last week’s heat­ed ex­change be­tween Laven­tille West MP Ka­reem Mar­celle and Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath in Par­lia­ment.

As she thanked her team in the Par­lia­ment and the Sen­ate, she asked her guests to al­so thank them, adding, “Af­ter Mon­day, I hope you will still be thank­ing all of us.”

Re­it­er­at­ing the words of the pun­dit dur­ing the Lak­sh­mi pu­ja held ear­li­er, she said, “In life, you can­not please every­body. There will al­ways be some who will not be hap­py, some will be an­gry and some will be sad and all the words in be­tween. I said, ‘we can­not give every­body every­thing, but we can try.’”

The pun­dit, she added, then said,”’You know why when the UNC wins, every­body wins.’”

Turn­ing to mem­bers of her Cab­i­net who were on stage with her, she said, “Team, we can try, we will try.”

How­ev­er, Fi­nance Min­is­ter Tan­coo, who will de­liv­er his maid­en Bud­get pre­sen­ta­tion at 1:30 pm to­day, has in­di­cat­ed that it will take “a lot of very hard work and some sac­ri­fice” to re­build the coun­try.

Stand­ing shoul­der to shoul­der with his Gov­ern­ment col­leagues, he said they are com­mit­ted, pa­tri­ot­ic, peo­ple-cen­tred and fu­ture-fo­cused as they be­gin the process.