00:00I don't want to be too harsh on the Chief Secretary but I want to ask him to
00:06stop taking to begonians for fools. How many times do we have to tell the Chief
00:13Secretary that it takes three quarters of the votes of the Parliament to amend
00:23the section of the Constitution that will provide this autonomy that he's
00:29talking about. He's not a member of Parliament so maybe he doesn't know
00:33what he's talking about. The Prime Minister is calling on the Chief
00:36Secretary Farley Augustine to stop attacks against the process. He's not a
00:41member of Parliament so maybe he doesn't know what he's talking about but I give
00:45him the benefit of the doubt that if you are so invested in attacking people
00:49relentlessly and making personal attacks on people at least find out what
00:55you're talking about. He knows that the PNM only has 22 seats in Parliament. He
01:01knows that the PNM has not had three quarters majority in the Parliament. He
01:07knows that when the bills came to the Parliament even if those bills were
01:13going to be passed into government he knows that he has said that that is not
01:17what he wants. The majority of people in the Parliament said this is
01:22documented for the Parliament we vote on it. The majority of people in the
01:26Parliament which are PNM people voted for it. The Prime Minister said the Chief
01:31Secretary needs to speak about the opposition voting against the Tobago
01:35autonomy bill. But that is not enough to bring about the change. If he wants to
01:42engage the issue you notice he stays very far from talking about those who
01:49did not support it because those are his friends. His friends in the UNC vote
01:54against it. He's not talking to and about them but he's talking to and about the
02:00PNM that voted for it. Imagine those bills had in there a
02:06commitment to give the Tobago House of Assembly additional responsibilities
02:11and significant additional funding and they vote against it. And he cheers
02:20himself by saying he's glad that the bills were voted down and now he's
02:24wasting your time and my time talking about me not giving him and Tobago
02:30autonomy. I cannot give you what I don't have.
02:32Elizabeth Williams TV6 News
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