Kamla rips it apart; Govt's manifesto torn up
Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 5:27 pm
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In a symbolic act, United National Congress (UNC) leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar last night ripped to pieces the People’s National Movement (PNM) manifesto after displaying it and going through several of its ’empty promises’.
Speaking at a public meeting in Gasparillo last night, Persad-Bissessar declared that the manifesto, which was unveiled yesterday, was a case of ’more promises for Patrick (Manning) to break’.
’We know of the massive waste, the mismanagement, the corruption, the lack of accountability. So manifesto or not, Patrick, it would not change the fact that the people of Trinidad and Tobago do not believe a word that you have to say. Because you have broken all the promises before!’ she said.
She said the PNM promised to raise the Senior Citizen’s Grant, but has raised it to less than the promised amount. This, she noted, against the background of the People’s Partnership promise to restore Old Age Pension and to raise it to $3,000.Â
’In this manifesto, (the National Academy for the Performing Arts) NAPA has pride of place. That building was so poorly built that millions of dollars more have to be spent on it. The building is overpriced. Calder Hart (who headed (Urban Development Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago) UDeCOTT which project managed its construction) Â fled the country in disgrace after the Uff Enquiry and these fellas so brass-face to put NAPA as a major achievement of the PNM,’ Persad-Bissessar declared.
’Imagine in NAPA, steelband, chutney are not acceptable. They say you can’t take that kind of music there. Well Mr Manning after May 24, it is steelband, chutney, calypso, soca, reggae, parang and every kind of music in NAPA,’ she declared, to cheers.
In a symbolic act, United National Congress (UNC) leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar last night ripped to pieces the People’s National Movement (PNM) manifesto after displaying it and going through several of its ’empty promises’.
Speaking at a public meeting in Gasparillo last night, Persad-Bissessar declared that the manifesto, which was unveiled yesterday, was a case of ’more promises for Patrick (Manning) to break’.
’We know of the massive waste, the mismanagement, the corruption, the lack of accountability. So manifesto or not, Patrick, it would not change the fact that the people of Trinidad and Tobago do not believe a word that you have to say. Because you have broken all the promises before!’ she said.
She said the PNM promised to raise the Senior Citizen’s Grant, but has raised it to less than the promised amount. This, she noted, against the background of the People’s Partnership promise to restore Old Age Pension and to raise it to $3,000.Â
’In this manifesto, (the National Academy for the Performing Arts) NAPA has pride of place. That building was so poorly built that millions of dollars more have to be spent on it. The building is overpriced. Calder Hart (who headed (Urban Development Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago) UDeCOTT which project managed its construction) Â fled the country in disgrace after the Uff Enquiry and these fellas so brass-face to put NAPA as a major achievement of the PNM,’ Persad-Bissessar declared.
’Imagine in NAPA, steelband, chutney are not acceptable. They say you can’t take that kind of music there. Well Mr Manning after May 24, it is steelband, chutney, calypso, soca, reggae, parang and every kind of music in NAPA,’ she declared, to cheers.