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  • 1 year ago

The United National Congress is challenging the Prime Minister to a debate on the 120th Report of the Salaries Review Commission and calling for the whip to be lifted when it's time to vote.
Here's the story.
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00:00According to the UNC the country is in grave trouble and there are very many
00:05indicators. When a fireman was riding a firetruck this morning and and the
00:15driver of the firetruck negotiated the corner at near the Separia market and
00:23the door fall out because of a defective fire tender. You know we are in trouble.
00:33But the MP for Cuva South says government ministers appear to be
00:37comfortable sitting in their ivory towers. Rudranath in Darsing says he felt
00:42insulted at the way Finance Minister Kom Imbert dealt with reporters at the
00:47post cabinet media briefing on Thursday when they sought answers on the salary
00:52review commission's report. And you have a Minister of Finance who thinks, who
00:59thinks he's the Lord of Lords. He thinks apparently he's sitting
01:06somewhere within the feudal system. He sees himself as an overlord. He sees
01:14himself probably because of his complexion. Someone who as a slave
01:21master riding a horse and attempting to be not being able to account to the
01:27people of Trinidad and Tobago. And that's why the UNC MP has this challenge for
01:33the Prime Minister when the SRC report enters the house on Monday. If he is man
01:40as he said that he will bear the political fallout and this is a
01:45political issue. Well the Parliament is the place to debate the political issues
01:52impacting upon the people of Trinidad and Tobago. And if your name on instruct
01:58the Minister of Finance to debate this motion. And in the political guile in
02:04Darsing also has this condition. Lift the whip. Lift the whip and allow your
02:12members to vote on their conscience as it relates to this particular
02:18motion. And I want to ask Rowley is it because of Adrian Leon's position on
02:27this SRC. He is no longer finding favor with the screening committee of the
02:35People's National Movement. His parliamentary colleague is calling the
02:40overspending at the new terminal at the A&R Robinson Airport in Tobago
02:44squandermania. When you add up the total sum of what that airport will cost you
02:49the taxpayers and it is just an extension of the A&R Robinson Airport.
02:54It will cost you more than what the UNC did to build our Piarco International
03:00Airport. All right. So tonight we reject the fragile defense of this Prime
03:08Minister Rowley that modifications occurred and there were some elements of
03:12variations in the airport that was not unusual with big projects. This is what
03:17he said. He questions the Finance Minister's defense of the project. Why is
03:22the Minister of Finance accounting for NIDCO and the failure of NIDCO in this
03:29Tobago project. Now NIDCO supposedly supposed to fall under the Works and
03:36Transport Minister. So I am asking the question, why is Minister Mbert so
03:42interested in this project. And MP David Lee doubles down on his leader's call
03:49for a probe. Tonight we support the call of the leader of opposition for criminal
03:54investigation and the cost overrun because this country needs to answer on
04:01why individuals without experience in this field was hired initially. The
04:07country needs to answer on why NIDCO failed in its reporting and incentives.
04:13The duo was speaking at the UNC's pavement report at the La Jolla
04:17auditorium in St. Joseph on Thursday night.
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