Gail Alexan­der

“Ri­ot” with your fin­ger when elec­tions are called and vote out the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment, say Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress sen­a­tors and MPs.

They in­di­cat­ed this at Mon­day night’s UNC Fo­rum, which was not at­tend­ed by leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar. Par­ty of­fi­cials said she had an­oth­er en­gage­ment.

Sen­a­tor Damien Ly­der called on the Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment “Wack­er man” Min­is­ter to give the San­gre Grande Re­gion­al Cor­po­ra­tion funds to fix is­sues, in­clud­ing flood­ing.

He said peo­ple were fear­ing for their lives un­der the PNM and T&T was reach­ing 600 mur­ders.

He said peo­ple want­ed the PNM out and in the next gen­er­al elec­tion, peo­ple would “ri­ot with their vot­ing fin­ger”, in an ap­par­ent ref­er­ence to last week’s ri­ots in Port-of-Spain.

MP Michelle Ben­jamin said while food prices were ris­ing, Gov­ern­ment had “side-stepped” Moru­ga farm­ers—but Moru­ga has hill rice and sim­i­lar pro­duce and the high rice prices wouldn’t have been nec­es­sary if the sec­tor was han­dled bet­ter.

She al­so urged peo­ple to “ri­ot” with their fin­ger at elec­tions.

Sen­a­tor Anil Roberts, who bit­ter­ly slammed Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley, ques­tioned the al­leged pay­ment of pub­lic monies of $10,000 to PNM PoS South MP Kei­th Scot­land as a mem­ber of the Com­mu­ni­ty Re­cov­ery pro­gramme, “...to take care of his own con­stituen­cy... PNM pay Kei­th Scot­land—well all yuh vote for dat!” Roberts said.