00:00It's all optics when it comes to the PNM's response to the recommendations from the constitution
00:05reform exercise, says opposition leader Kamala Prasad Besasa.
00:09The PNM has rejected the most critical recommendations from their own report, so they don't make
00:16up their minds.
00:17The Prime Minister called in on the opposition to come and join them on our 70th, so why
00:22are you not going over with you, Mr Rowley?
00:25We are not going anywhere.
00:28You have made up your mind what you're keeping and what you're taking away.
00:32She complains that the ruling party is not in support of proportional representation,
00:36two-term limits, nor fixed election dates.
00:40That is because they want to vote a pad through HEC housing developments and the marginals.
00:47They will become irrelevant if we have proportional representation, you know that?
00:52They will never change that.
00:53The UNC will move to bring proportional representation to Trinidad and Tobago.
00:59And part of the PNM's election playbook, the opposition leader suggests, is politically
01:04exploiting the reparations cause.
01:07They want to remove pre-independent symbols and names.
01:11They are weaponising sensitive ethnic issues.
01:14I warn you.
01:15I warn you tonight and everyone you know, please tell them, do not go down the ethnic
01:20division rabbit hole that Rowley and the PNM are trying to take you into.
01:25Don't go down there.
01:27Sanitising our nation's past, she says, does not have a goalpost.
01:32You want to get rid of Columbus?
01:33Fine.
01:34He was a wicked thief, a rapist.
01:39I have no love for him.
01:40But when you get rid of Columbus, well, you have to go and deal with the Columbus Channel.
01:45Will you negotiate with Venezuela to change the name of the Columbus Channel?
01:50Will you negotiate with QRC, one of the best schools in the country, to change their name
01:54from Queen's Royal College?
01:57When will it stop?
01:58She urges not just her supporters, but the nation to be engaged in conversations about
02:04Steelpan, Columbus and TASA.
02:07The DORAC is here, the TASA is here and they'll forever be here.
02:11The Steelpan is here, we'll forever be here.
02:14Yes, we love these instruments, but we do not love the crime.
02:18We do not love the high food prices.
02:20There is so much more plaguing the national landscape that the nation must focus on.
02:26They don't want you to talk about five-year-old Anika who was murdered.
02:32Five-year-old child in her mother's lap.
02:36Shot in Maruba last night.
02:39She was shot five times.
02:42A child, five-year-old.
02:44They don't want us to talk about that, but that is what we'll talk about.
02:48Not Steelpan and TASA and DORAC.
02:50We're not talking about that.
02:52We are talking about the issues affecting everybody in this country.
02:55The murders and the home invasions.
02:57Arvishi Tiwari, Rupner Rai, TV6 News.
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