00:00I want to make sure that I do not allow myself to be carried on a road where the Prime
00:08Minister definitely wants to cause distractions.
00:12I totally reject all those kind of allegations and I would say it is a deliberate attempt by the Prime
00:20Minister to cause distractions
00:22and for the people to get involved in a kind of discussion where we lose focus on what is really
00:29going on in the country.
00:30Opposition leader Penelope Beckles is calling on the Prime Minister to remember her office
00:36and remember her sworn oath to the people of Trinidad and Tobago.
00:41The Prime Minister went into the Parliament and made reference to herself in glowing terms
00:48by using a specific word which I am not going to repeat.
00:51But at the same time, if somebody else says it, you're upset.
00:56But you say it in the Parliament and I'm sure everybody knows what I'm talking about.
01:00So as politicians, at the end of the day, we are leaders, we have to set the tone.
01:05And if you set the tone in a particular way, you call people eat-a-food lawyers,
01:10you know, you're threatening people who you're going to cough down and all of that as a Prime Minister.
01:13I mean, people are just fed up. People are just fed up, fed up, fed up.
01:18And people expect better of the Prime Minister.
01:22She has a responsibility not to go down the road of using derogatory statements
01:28in making reference to Trinidadians and to the Grunians.
01:31Instead, the opposition leader believes the Prime Minister should address the country
01:36on what Beckles says are the real issues at hand.
01:40The economy is not performing. I mean, you recently you saw where the CSO indicated very clearly
01:496,000 people lost their jobs in the first quarter.
01:53And what is the government saying? This government that promised the creation of 50,000 jobs.
01:58But more than 50,000 people have been sent home.
02:01So tell us, tell us what is happening as it relates to all of those persons
02:06who cannot buy school books and uniforms.
02:08The opposition leader notes the exit of several multinational companies
02:13as she questions apparent instability in TNT's public sector as well.
02:19Tell us why the CEO of FCB resigned and why it is so many top management positions.
02:27People have either resigned or they have been fired.
02:30That is what the country needs to know.
02:32You have Philip Alexander going all over the place.
02:35Tell us whether this government has built one single house
02:39since they came into offices almost 16 months.
02:42Let the Prime Minister tell us about the number of countries,
02:47number of industries who have decided they don't want to have anything to do
02:52with Trinidad and Tobago.
02:53I mean, what are they really doing?
02:56Renessa Cutting, TV6 News.
Comments