00:00I am not going to respond to the opposition on who should or should not be fired.
00:06A person who holds an office in a cabinet, in a government that has the authority to be government,
00:13and a prime minister makes appointment to the cabinet.
00:15The opposition's hatred for people is not part of my management portfolio.
00:22The prime minister said he would not entertain individual attacks against the Minister of National Security.
00:30The opposition's position that our crime problem is our Fitzgerald Highlands problem, I don't subscribe to that.
00:37Because I know they don't view me in any way different to the way they view Fitzgerald Highlands.
00:42I mean, as a matter of fact, I think they spend more time saying that I should go.
00:47So if that is all the opposition can contribute to the national debate, I've said to you all before,
00:52that they are pathetic. They have nothing to contribute.
00:55Dr. Rowley said he would not engage the persecution of any government minister.
01:01What is it about Fitzgerald Highlands that every...
01:04Fitzgerald Highlands works in the cabinet, he's working for the people of Trinidad and Tobago,
01:09and the fact that they don't agree, the system allows them not to agree.
01:16But this apparent persecution, I'm not in that.
01:20Dr. Rowley has this message for the opposition leader, Kamala Prasad Bissessa.
01:25I want to remind you all, the very first thing I did when I was opposition leader,
01:32was to warn Mrs. Kamala Prasad Bissessa not to put Jack Warner in our cabinet,
01:38because he will embarrass the country.
01:40And what did she do then?
01:42Did she appoint him to the cabinet?
01:44And did she make him acting prime minister in the country, until he embarrassed the country?
01:48So what is this relentless Fitzgerald Highlands story?
01:52We are not in that. We have serious business to attend to.
01:55Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
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