00:00You asked a question, how was the process?
00:05The process was smooth, it was seamless.
00:08How come you've opened this area? We know you've got what is being sold.
00:11Well, this is my ancestral home. When you go high up the hill, you'll see the house that I grew up in.
00:17My mother's home. So I still go to my mother's home.
00:21Minister, you said the process was smooth, but you're still a little while inside. How come?
00:26Well, they sent me to the wrong area, and I knew where I was supposed to go, so I did that.
00:33And there were people in front of me, and I'm a person of discipline, so I waited my time until it was my time to exercise my franchise.
00:40But it's always good to come back to where you would have played football as a child, so I was a little nostalgic.
00:47And I understand there are four polling stations on this compound.
00:52Yes.
00:53And between 1500 and 1900 people are expected to vote here today.
00:58Yes.
00:59What do you think the voter turnout will be like?
01:01I cannot predict that, and I am trying to stay within the boundaries of what I know, so I don't want to comment on that.
01:08But we spoke to the PNM candidates.
01:13Morning.
01:14Who would have spoken about irregularities that have seen at other polling stations.
01:20Yes.
01:21Have you heard anything, sir?
01:22I have heard certain things, but in Port of Spain South, we have a machinery that is in place to deal with those irregularities.
01:31Can you tell us a little more about the machinery?
01:34The machinery is in place to correct any irregularity.
01:38That is what I will say about my machinery and this up and running, and I will make contact as soon as I leave this area.
01:47I will go into my headquarters and see what is happening, mind my business first, and then I will look at other areas.
01:53Minister, last question.
01:54I noticed there isn't a lot of police officers here.
01:57There's not a heavy police presence around here at all, except for those two that are just walking in probably to vote.
02:03Right.
02:04And the one officer I saw peeping back and forth there.
02:06Is there supposed to be more security?
02:09Well, there are more persons inside, and I would suspect that they would have done their due diligence.
02:16Yes.
02:17And in Union Road, Four Roads, they go, Martin.
02:19As you can tell, we are ... Notice I walked in by myself.
02:23We are a community that ... We are not a transient community here.
02:29This is a community where everybody grew up together.
02:32I know it's fall.
02:33I know it's fall.
02:34It's grand.
02:35I mean, it's a community where we know each other, and we try to keep it that way.
02:38So whatever due diligence needed to be done is done.
02:41As you can see, there are no incidents here.
02:44Everybody, things are smooth, things are quiet, and things are running as they are.
02:48And I am very sanguine about the chances.
02:51But there might be a police vehicle craft up outside.
02:53Thank you later.
02:55No, we don't need a police vehicle park up.
02:56We have police inside.
02:58And there are others who you are not seeing, because I saw much more, including a sergeant
03:03and the corporal inside.
03:04Thank you very much, Minister.
03:05You're welcome.
03:06I was five minutes late.
03:07I'm sorry.
03:08I had to leave you something.
03:09It does okay.
03:10Bye.
03:11Bye.
03:12Bye.
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