00:00Young people are urged to go out and vote on April 28th.
00:06It is our duty, it is our, it is incumbent upon us to step forward and take responsibility for our country and for our future.
00:18At the PNM's meeting in La Hocketa came an urging to carefully consider who you vote for.
00:24This is not a time for you to say, I know, I go in, I get a job, I get a house, I get a this, I get a that.
00:35It's going to come after. Go to the polls on the 28th.
00:39Dominic Romain, a newcomer to electoral politics and a financial advisor by profession,
00:46says deceitful union leaders are holding government in a chokehold over the 4% wage increase.
00:53He instead says government's three increases in the personal tax allowance since 2015 can be considered a wage increase.
01:02Today, because of that one measure, tens of thousands of citizens in this country no longer pay income tax.
01:10But that $625 that you're saving every month is a pay raise.
01:14That represents 8.3% of your salary that used to be going to the Board of Inland Revenue every month.
01:20Now it is going to your bank account.
01:22That is an additional $625 that you're taking home.
01:27Meanwhile, MP Fowler Hocketa Talparo Foster Cummings says the UNC is attempting a replay of the 2010 voter suppression tactics,
01:36which led to a 6% reduction in votes, skewing results in favor of the Yellow Party.
01:43If you have more than 30,000 followers, they will pay you $5,000 a week.
01:52For that money, you must post at least three times a day until the elections.
02:00If you have more than 40,000 followers, they will pay you $7,500 per week.
02:09And you have to post at least four to five times a day.
02:14And if you have over 50,000 followers, they will pay you $10,000 a week.
02:20And you have to post non-stop every day.
02:24Meanwhile, Prime Minister Stuart Young quotes one journalist's $18 billion tally of what seven of Kamala Passat-Bissassa's promises is expected to cost.
02:34Trinidad and Tobago, we are being warned.
02:40They go on.
02:41The seven main financial promises and commitments are one,
02:46increase the compensation of public sector employees by no less than 10%.
02:52The cost up to $12 billion with increased expenditure on wages and salary of $1.1 billion a year.
03:02Young calls on citizens to not be fooled and says in his party's nine years in office, they have built a stable platform.
03:11People are asking, well, you were there for nine years, why you didn't do it?
03:15In those nine years, we were defending Trinidad.
03:19In those nine years, we were getting the experience.
03:23The experience, we are out there fighting, we are building new programs.
03:26With 12 days to go before the polls, Young announced the PNM's manifesto was just formalized and will be launched in the coming days.
03:35Arvishita Mwari, Ruparayan, TV6 News.
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