Urging UNC supporters to fling roti in the face of Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Moonilal vowed to bring down the People’s National Movement (PNM) government by revealing massive corruption in the Housing Development Corporation.
Moonilal was speaking at a public meeting held at the Rio Claro band stand on Thursday night, a day after Rowley revealed that the UNC had spent $1.6m on a Divali function hosted by the Office of the Prime Minister 2014; with $350,000 being spent on roti alone.
Accusing Rowley of speaking about irrelevant issues rather than dealing with spiralling crime and the collapsing economy, Moonilal said, “In this society the economy has collapsed. We had an economic decline of seven per cent and 500 people were murdered but he only concerned with roti and outside children.”
At the same meeting, MP for Mayaro Rushton Paray took Works Minister Fitzgerald Hinds to task for calling on PNM supporters to kill “UNC vampires” using the balisier stake.
Sending a direct message to Hinds, Paray said, “Don’t come here with that dotishness and foolishness. In Mayaro we exercise love, respect. If that is a way of life elsewhere, it is not ours.” He said that the balisier dagger has killed the economy of T&T.
In her speech, Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar predicted that by January next year, the T&T dollar will be devalued TT$10 to US$1 as the economy continues to tumble.
Persad-Bissessar said already 25,000 workers have been sent home under the PNM.
While families suffer, Persad-Bissessar said, “The word is coming from the back rooms of the PNM, once Christmas is gone the T&T dollar will be devalued ten to $1 US.” While the audience blew horns, Persad-Bissessar shouted, “Already the ten to 1 is murder.”
She said the PNM has brought the economy to a halt, adding that Rowley has not fulfilled its manifesto promises.
They promised in ten-point plan that they will appoint 100 municipal officers for each corporation. Fourteen months later, they have only four officers in the Mayaro/Rio Claro Regional Corporation. They promised to appoint a Commissioner of Police but 14 months later that has not happened,” Persad-Bissessar said