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Friday, April 4, 2025

Kamla slams PNM Women's League: Leave my name out your mouths

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Gail Alexander
969 days ago
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 UNC leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar delivers her address during the party’s Monday Night Forum.

UNC leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar delivers her address during the party’s Monday Night Forum.

COURTESY UNC

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has called on the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment's Women's League to "leave my name out of your mouth" and has al­so called on Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment coun­cil­lors to boy­cott to­day's meet­ing with Gov­ern­ment.

She made the com­ment at the UNC's Mon­day Night Fo­rum last night, as she knocked a PNM Women's League state­ment de­nounc­ing her si­lence on UNC Sen­a­tor Anil Roberts' re­cent "at­tack" on Sharon Clark-Row­ley, the Prime Min­is­ter's wife.

Per­sad- Bisses­sar said, "I have noth­ing to do with any­body's do­mes­tic busi­ness, why you call­ing my name and blam­ing me? It was the Prime Min­is­ter who said 'I'm not in all you bed­room' ,so leave me out of your bac­cha­nal. That Women's League has noth­ing to do ... so many peo­ple - women, chil­dren are miss­ing, but you want to call Kam­la name!

"I might do what that fel­la - what's his name - Will Smith do... just leave my name out of your mouth."

She ques­tioned why the League didn’t fo­cus on why pep­per spray isn't in ef­fect.

“PNM pae­dophile ring, job­less­ness, eco­nom­ic di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion and stu­dents fail­ing. All of a sud­den, they want to talk of de­cen­cy and deco­rum and call­ing my name – the hypocrisy of PNM!” she said, point­ing to video of cer­tain plat­form state­ments by Prime Min­is­ter Kei­th Row­ley.

”I ask you, WPC Camille (Robin­son-Reg­is) and so on, leave my name out of your mouth!"

She al­so called on coun­cil­lors to make her proud and boy­cott a meet­ing to­day which she claimed Row­ley "is host­ing" with Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment coun­cil­lors.

"To come and lec­ture to Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment prac­ti­tion­ers. For what? Sev­en years and you nev­er talk to one Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment per­son. Don't be fools, peo­ple, it's not to tell you any­thing, it's a PR gim­mick. Stay home! Don't give him an au­di­ence! He can't fire you if you don't at­tend. He'll bouff you. When he calls, you don't have to go run­ning," she said.

"I'll be dis­ap­point­ed to see you sit­ting there like a lit­tle fowl in a yard... I hope some of you are smart and don't lis­ten to him - boy­cott that meet­ing! Stay home in Pe­nal, San­gre Grande, Ma­yaro and look af­ter your peo­ple," she said to shout­ed as­sur­ances au­di­ence mem­bers wouldn't at­tend.

She al­so an­nounced Wednes­day's open­ing of Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment nom­i­na­tions for all seats, clos­ing Sep­tem­ber 2. She said UNC will win San Fer­nan­do and must win San­gre Grande and oth­er ar­eas.

UNC's Roodal Mooni­lal al­so deemed a "cock and bull sto­ry" yes­ter­day's rev­e­la­tion by Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Mar­vin Gon­za­les that the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship gov­ern­ment had planned in 2012 to get rid of thou­sands of WASA work­ers to get a IDB loan. Mooni­lal said con­di­tion­al­i­ty didn't in­volve manda­to­ry staff cuts but vol­un­tary sep­a­ra­tion.

Mooni­lal said the loan wasn't to han­dle WASA's over­all state but to deal with waste­water treat­ment plants at Mal­abar and San Fer­nan­do and con­di­tion­al­i­ty in­clud­ed VSEP but not forc­ing peo­ple to leave.

"This Min­is­ter don't un­der­stand what is vol­un­tary and in­vol­un­tary. It wasn't to force peo­ple to go but to ne­go­ti­ate with unions to see if it was pos­si­ble," Mooni­lal.

He said even the po­lice ser­vice ap­pears to have col­lapsed un­der the PNM Gov­ern­ment.


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