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The Opposition Leader says the Prime Minister is politically exploiting the reparations cause and urges the population to resist going down what she calls "the divisive road" and instead focus on the issues faced each day.
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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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