Skip to playerSkip to main content
CCNTV6
  • 5 weeks ago
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar S.C has vowed to continue going to war against the social ills facing the nation, pledging to confront corruption, crime, and neglect with the weapons of law, truth, courage, and conscience.

Sharla Kistow
Transcript
00:00Speaking at an annual Diwali celebration at her constituency office in Penal,
00:06Prime Minister Kamala Posada-Bissessa said,
00:08true leadership is not about privilege or power, but about protection and service to the people.
00:14As she recites the story of Rahman Sita, she said her political journey mirrors that story,
00:20describing her return to leadership as a homecoming of light after years of being in opposition.
00:26Like Rahman Sita, as I said, we too have known exile.
00:30Our nation endured years of greed and arrogance, of indifference to the poor,
00:35of institutions crumbling into silence, but we never ever abandoned faith.
00:41We believe that truth, though chained, will one day walk free.
00:47Adding that her 10 years of being in opposition were hard and lonely and not a bed of roses.
00:52I went to war for you, not with anger, but with devotion.
00:58Not for privilege, but for the people, and not for power, but for Prince Brough.
01:03I fought in the parliament and outside the parliament.
01:06We fought in and out, on the streets, everywhere, in silence of sleepless nights,
01:12believing always that our light would return.
01:15The senior council said she first learned of leadership and what it takes to be a great leader as a child.
01:21My light was first kindled in the old penal market over the road, just there.
01:28First kindled in that market across the road.
01:31I stood there beside my RG, my grandmother,
01:35selling bode and baigan and other nice things we like to eat.
01:39Selling from dawn amongst vendors whose hands built this nation's soul.
01:44Where I learned that dignity lies in honest work.
01:48Dignity lies in compassion and costs nothing.
01:52And that leadership begins in service.
01:55Passat Bisesa said, despite calls from her detractors to give up,
02:00she heard the voices of the people telling her not to.
02:03Adding that her return to office on April 28th was not her victory,
02:08but a victory for the citizens of TNT.
02:10Each time they said, give up, give up, Kamala, go, you have to go, give up.
02:17I heard your voices.
02:19I heard the voices of the farmers, the teachers, the vendors, the mothers,
02:22holding families together, whispering, Kamala, keep fighting.
02:26Keep fighting and the light will return.
02:30Keep fighting.
02:30Keep fighting.
02:30And so, we are here today.
02:38Like Ram, I fought not for a throne, but I fought for truth.
02:43Like CETA, I endured not for comfort, but for love.
02:48And like them, I have never turned away from our people.
02:52Prime Minister Prasada Bisesa vows to always go to war for TNT.
02:56And tonight, under the glow of thousands of years, I give you this vow.
03:02I have gone to war for a country, and I will always go to war for a country.
03:08Not with hate, but with the weapons of law, with the weapons of truth,
03:13with the weapons of courage and conscience.
03:16I will go to war against corruption, which steals from our children.
03:21I will go to war against crime, which stalks our homes.
03:24I will go to war against neglect, which mocks our poor, and abandons our youth.
03:31You see, leadership is not privilege.
03:33It is protection.
03:35And love, real love, never walks away when people are in danger.
03:41Love fights, love endures, and love leads.
03:45Charlotte Kistel, TV6 News.
Be the first to comment
Add your comment