As he primes up for the battle for Toco Sangre Grande, Attorney at Law Wayne Sturge tells constituents the UNC will give the Squatting community certificates of comfort.
00:01Attorney-at-law Wayne Stooge is making his bid for the constituency of Tocosangra Grandi.
00:07How good and how pleasant it is in Tocosangra Grandi that we have no way season that Afro
00:14and Indo dwell together in harmony. Give yourself a round of applause.
00:18And tell that crazy small Chinese that when you come with that racism talk, we have to chase that Chinese out of tongue.
00:35He laments the constituency is among the most marginalized.
00:39The largest constituency in this country, but you are also the poorest constituency in this country.
00:47You have one of the highest rates of unemployment in this country.
00:53I have seen every nook and cranny in Trinidad and Tobago.
00:57You have by far the worst roads in Trinidad and Tobago.
01:01But yet you have changed hands only twice.
01:04The PNM have ruled Tocosangra Grandi in excess of 75%.
01:10Stooge says the MP Roger Munro is only now finding himself busy fixing roads as he is running scared.
01:18I met people in Matlab telling me that they could sit down and drink with the MP.
01:24I don't drink.
01:25But I had to ask them.
01:27That is not a boast.
01:28Is that a boast that you could sit down and drink with the MP?
01:32What are they doing for you?
01:34What are they doing for you?
01:37If you had to boast about your MP, you should boast of my MP fixing my roads.
01:43Stooge, a newcomer to electoral politics, though serving as an opposition senator, says the high levels of squatting demonstrates the desperate cry for shelter and the inability of government to plan for the need.
01:58One of the largest squatting settlements in Trinidad and Tobago is in Tocosangra Grandi.
02:05A number on a house does not create in law a legitimate expectation that would prevent them from bulldozing your house.
02:17What protects you is what the UNC did in 1998 to give you a certificate of comfort.
02:25Why after five years they couldn't give you a certificate of comfort?
02:30How hard it is to give a certificate of comfort?
02:33He says constituents are squatting by necessity and left without water, electricity and proper roads.
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