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Prime Minister in waiting, Stuart Young is dismissing his detractors and vowing to work with those who are committed and willing to build the country.


He tells TV6 News his tenure is to be one of unity.

Juhel Browne brings us the details.
Transcript
00:00Energy Minister Stuart Young, who is set to become the next Prime Minister of Trinidad
00:04and Tobago before the upcoming general election, tells TV6 News that he looks
00:09forward, quote, to uniting all of our citizens who are committed and willing
00:14to build our country and to take it forward to realize its fullest potential,
00:19end quote. Last week, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley announced that he would not
00:24be offering himself as a candidate for the general election due later this year
00:28and that he planned to resign before the end of his term as the head of the
00:32government. On Monday, Dr. Rowley announced that Minister Young was
00:36chosen to be the next head of the government via a straw poll of the
00:40elected PNM MPs. Dr. Rowley said the only other candidate was planning minister
00:46Penelope Beckles. The topic of unity and race within the PNM and in the nation
00:51has been brought up by some of those politically opposed to the PNM. TV6 News
00:56has sought a response from Minister Young to criticisms of his pending
01:00appointment as interim Prime Minister by opposition leader Kamala Prasad
01:04Bissessa as she says voters should decide who the next Prime Minister
01:09should be via the general election. The opposition leader, a senior counsel, also
01:14made a claim regarding a company owned by one of his family members and state
01:18funding. Minister Young, who received his appointment as a senior counsel last
01:23year, said what he called the leader of the opposition and the UNC's continued
01:28personalized attacks on his family and others are completely without merit. The
01:34Prime Minister, in waiting for this, said the population is more sensible than to
01:38place any credence on what he described as these fabrications and their nasty
01:44attacks on people. Minister Young declared, quote, I will not be distracted
01:48by Mrs. Prasad Bissessa and the UNC or any other detractor. I am certain that
01:52our citizens want delivery and results and I look forward to working with all
01:57to ensure a better Trinidad and Tobago, end quote. According to the Parliament's
02:02website, Minister Young first served in the Parliament as a temporary
02:05opposition senator from March 18th, 2014 to June 2nd, 2015. Since then, he was
02:13elected MP for Port of Spain North, St. Anne's West in the 2015 general election
02:18and again in the 2020 general election. Minister Young has served as Minister of
02:23National Security, Minister of Communications and the Minister in the
02:27Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs. He is the Minister of
02:31Energy and Energy Industries and Minister in the Office of the Prime
02:36Minister. As of late last year, Minister Young has served as Acting Prime
02:40Minister when Prime Minister Rowley was out of the country. Minister Young was
02:45the Acting Attorney General when the present state of emergency in Trinidad
02:49and Tobago took effect last week. Jule Brown, TV6 News.
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