Community transformation requires addressing underlying socioeconomic conditions rather than relying solely on law enforcement; communities near political centers like East Port of Spain and Laventil in Trinidad and Tobago face unique challenges due to their proximity to power, and sustainable development requires consistent political commitment and investment in education, infrastructure, and youth development rather than reactive measures.
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Lennox Smith: The Corridor Transformation - 20 May 2026 - Become Conscious of The RealityAdded:
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night and evil people make man turn away for his foundation is a holy mountain.
Do you know I know anyway drive it away standing the congregation of the righteous not a judgment Anybody hear me say lava?
As I lay myself to sleep.
Oh, I pray my soul you'll keep.
If I should die before I hold my soul, you accept.
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driving away.
Anybody hear me say lava and lay myself to sleep?
Oh, I pray my soul you'll keep if I should die before I hold my soul you accept.
Yeah. Yeah. Lucifer is roing with his eyes wide open trying to destroy the children. Your children.
You see that man called Satan, he got some wicked intenses and he knows and he wants us to go with him. But I know >> ah yes indeed of course a press of good night to all and century east west not north south central in Trinidad. Yes share share share. Yes yes yes like like like cuz this is of course the Wednesday edition of the corridor transformation.
Your host Lenox Smith. thought we should change it up a little bit in order to of course um not only not only display relevance not only of course to impress but also of course to indicate that in human circumstances one must move from stage to stage. So, I trust that you you like the introduction. We will tweak it a little bit, but the fact is that that is what that is all about. And of course, the music in the background will tell you what tonight's topic is all about. Yes, indeed.
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Love is falling down down down. And I can see Satan is going down down.
John is giving us this wonderful blessing. Now, now my people come now.
is my shepherd. I will never go in evil people make turn away glorious things of brotherness out of style.
Hey yo, youth man bring me that paper too much man to walk down in the next man vicinity. It's borderline by all the Satan wickedness in the poor man community. It's borderline man and man f to in the next man vicinity it's borderline.
Why the satan wickedness in the poor man community? So you say that you're a bad man. How much gun you got? You love to gunshot. Well, I say you must see mad man. No time for that. You're a idiot.
Let me hear from the voices.
>> The government is holding on to its promise to challenge the presence of opposition senator Janelle John. On the second group, no more troops coming to rob and shoot. We should be taking time to nurture the youth. You remember with Luke somebody cross the border line. No man and man fear to walk down in the next man vicinity. It's borderline.
Why all the Satan wickedness in the poor man community? It's borderline man to walk down in the next man vicinity. It's borderline by all the Satan wickedness in the poor man community. Telling you in Martin when they should be asleep roaming to murder man and in the hills of my since they murder my le everything get out from the voices.
>> The government is holding on to its promise to challenge the presence of opposition senator Janelle John Bates on a second committee she sits on. This time the Ferrari is over the joint select committee on national security.
We on this side, Mr. President, feel strongly that Senator John Bates must be removed from the joint select committee on national security fought with her presence on that committee is keeping back the committee's work. At the National Security Committee's April 29th meeting, Minister Rudal Munilal argued that John Bates's actions in the PAC undermined confidence in her ability to participate impartially in deliberations involving sensitive national security matters. He recommended that she be removed and replaced. John Bates rejected the call, insisting no finding of guilt had been made against her. The majority of members eventually voted in favor of her removal and for a special report to be prepared for the Senate.
John Bates was absent from Tuesday's sitting with the opposition saying she was unwell. Temporary Senator Sanji Budu attended in her place.
>> I was quite surprised when we moved to adopt the PAC report that Senator John Bates actually voted against it.
Thankfully, she's not here today to vote against it again and to show the worst example to the children of this country.
>> But opposition senators accused the government of double standards >> and it is different strokes for different folks. And there is a serious issue, Mr. President, as to whether this is a situation of we and olia or we and them. If you are in the UNC and you are beholden to their oppressive policies, you are safe, it seems. But anytime you oppose, anytime you express any different view, crapo, smoke your pipe, dog eat your supper, your cuckoo cook.
>> Independent Senator Francis Lewis urged caution, warning against what he described as a rush to judgment while other parliamentary processes remain ongoing. And my concern is the signal that it sends that a removal of a member on grounds substantially connected to the very matters under consideration is not wise. I would not want our Senate to appear to have acted prematurely and to even suggest that we have decided or concluded on outcomes that have effectively decided in advance.
>> Government Senator Annal Roberts rejected that argument saying the controversy was now distracting from the work of the committee. The mere fact that this is the second debate that we have to get up here talking about this is rather upsetting.
It's a waste of Senate time. It's a waste of resources for something that should be done so easily, so quickly.
It's just wrong.
>> The issue centers on edits made to a witness statement submitted to the PAC by former health minister Terrence Dialing. The document was filed with track changes still visible revealing edits by John Bates while she was a member of the committee. She was removed from the PAAC on April 16th, referred to the privileges committee and resigned on May 1st. John Bates remains a member of two parliamentary committees. Doris Polo, CNC3 News.
I thought it was important of course to raise this as a fundamental as a prelude to the discussion tonight.
You see it is all about crime and criminality. Yes, I am I am putting this situation in the crucible in the mortar to use a local palance or local colloquial expression in the mortar.
Because you see our children are looking on the future leaders of this country and here we have a situation where a sitting senator having of course admitted John Bates. Yes, the lady that you are seeing there on the screen behind me admitted that she ran a foul, that she did what was being accused of her or about her.
And yet still she had the audacity to believe that somehow this poison fruit or put another way this poison seed can produce of course a non-poisonous fruit.
And so while of course she was removed from that particular joint selected committee of the parliament where she assisted in addition to Alari as a senator as well in doctoring in interfering with the statement that a former minister of health Dias Singh was supposed to appear before that joint select committee dealing with pharmaceutical matters in this country and questionable issues that had to be extrapolated and had to be ventilated and had to be reconciled.
And here it is prior to him giving or making an appearance before that joint select committee of parliament these two senators John Bates and of course Alari made an intervention to guide.
Of course, Alari is saying that not only is he not on that committee, so therefore culpability does not extend to him.
Uh but of course he is also saying that Dial Singh communicated with him as a client and therefore he has no obligation to say anything because of the principle of council client or lawyer client privilege and nothing is wrong with that.
except that he is also a senator and Bates is a senator but sitting on that committee that's supposed to adjudicate supposed to set up at least write a report on the goings on based on the evidence before that was presented before them in respect of course of the pharmaceutical industry.
or the disquing concerns that people would have had in terms of a monopoly and whether or not it was facilitated that by the PNM when Dias Singh was the minister of health in that administration.
Yeah, that what that is what that is all about. But I want to bring this argument to the next phase or stage because I was asked a question on Monday by my colleague on the ground report as to whether or not there were any murders over the week the the the preceding weekend.
And I told him in no uncertain terms, while I have not heard of any, I don't want to put my neck on a block less I get it amputated or de or become decapitated because I will not be surprised if there was. Well, it turned out the next day that there were two murders in Movant.
And of course because it is in move in particular and not that I am not concerned with murders elsewhere in the country but my forte and my raise on detra and my reason for engaging in community activities over the years has always been with respect to my commitment that we can solve the problem social economic cultural, educational, health, relationship wise in the community of Moad, Lavventil, Bam, Celatumak, East Port of Spain where the socioeconomics and psychocultural circumstances are parallel, are almost equal.
But it goes further than that. My commitment goes further than that.
It is in a fundamental belief that if you solve the laventil and environments question, you solve at least blue collar crime in Trinidad and Tobago. That is what I have been working for and towards. So you will not be surprised as I have demonstrated before and the evidences statistically and pollucidly bear out what I am talking about in terms of the efforts whether it be the training of over 6,000 young persons of the age that is today of deep concern to the authorities and in the belief and understanding ing because the problem either continues to escalate or regurgitates something like a recidivis terminology recidivis but it expands and I'm saying if you solve the question of laventil and the socioeconomic realities therein you solve the problem of crime and criminality throughout the country. You see, you don't need to be a rocket scientist to understand the mere proximity of these communities to the seat of power at the main central administrative center, politics, commerce and otherwise of the country are talking about the capital city port of Spain and the fact that of necessity or of or as a consequence you will have greater emphasis paid to the these areas by the police in terms of policing because after all the parliament is located in Porto Spain.
The Hall of Justice is located in Porto Spain.
the main what I consider to be at times converted to be the social interventions in terms of recreation and camaraderie whether it be the Queens Park Savannah, the Queens Park Oval or indeed Woodford Square.
The fact is that these open spaces are for human consumption and use and therefore it is these suburban communities will be not just making or availing themselves of the presence of these assets But their mere proximity, their mere nearness to just a stone stroll out of Porto Spain means that and I have said it before and I will say it here tonight again.
I told Patrick Manning in a letter back in and after they won the election, the PN won the election in 1991 that the Lavendil and East Port of Spain and these other communities beat Betam Cellets etc. because they are so close to Porto Spain and if they remain depressed and oppressed and No mechanism, no intensive mechanism is placed to realize their true potential in terms of contributing positively to the development of Trinidad and Tobago.
These communities will be an active participant in any social upheaval in Trinidad and Tobago. This is not hairy fairy talk, you know.
This is not an attempt to be alarmist.
The mere fact that it is said does not mean that one is unconscious of the realities.
And you have to be a person from Mars if not from the sun. Even even though of course no life could as we know it can exist there but I'm saying it for emphasis unless you come from there you would know or you ought to know why it is I am talking in this way and just in case you cannot follow me I want to say that whether it be the 1970 uprising and the Black Power movement or whether it be the 1990 attempted coup, you would see a significant membership, a significant element emanating from these communities that participated in these exercises or these events that have of course put a blunt on Trinidad and Tobago's socioeconomic and psychocultural development and is and it is embedded in the historical accounts as far as Trinidad and Tobago's evolution so far is concerned and so it is important for us to understand you see only today I was I had the I had the displeasure really I don't take pleasure in saying these things but I told I told some people today who I consider to be significant looking at the situation in Tratal and Tobago now and of course in the recent past.
I didn't want to go farther a field like back in 1990 and 70 and so on. So I I kept it more contemporary and I said in no uncertain terms I have lived to see I have experienced because my political stance started in 1986 the first time I voted I voted for the NR but I always had the sense that if you solve the issue of Lavatil, east border Spain, Bam Cat, Chumak, move Malik, you solve a tremendous impediment to the potential and real development of Trinidad and Tobago, particularly in the context text that we have or we have been faced with the Hopson's choice. A choice that we do not have any wiggling room to maneuver.
You solve the problem of crime and criminality and therefore it generates the stability and the imperative for a peaceful and prosperous Trinidad and Tobago.
And over the years we have seen persons who would have been given the awesome responsibility to decide for Trinidad and Tobago at the highest level whether it be government in terms of cabinet and of course parliament and especially when they are in government the government side of the the decision making processes that will take Trinidad and Tobago either forward, remain static or backwards.
Invariably, as I told the the think tank this afternoon, they seem to always have the solution once they get the power.
Once they get the power, they know everything.
And why said they were seeking to acquire the power? Persons like myself, in spite of the challenges, in spite of the trepidations, in spite of the tragedies, in spite of the trauma and the it is quiet that will very often and too often BE PART AND PARCEL OF THE EXPERIENCES of these communities.
These leaders as soon as they get into office and they have the the mantle of power, they suddenly know everything and they have all the solutions.
And guess what? I am I'm I'm around long enough to know that eventually when they realize that that they have failed or are failing, they re they resort to people like me.
But that is every mirror. That is temporary. As soon as the next cycle of power or decision makers come around, you have to wait again because the process the process continues.
And so they believe they have all these solutions and they come to you and all during and when in opposition.
And when they get into office, they have all the solutions only to prove a fellow like me right again.
that it was mere pie the sky an exercise in what I consider to be self a grandandisement futility if they were ever serious about addressing the socioeconomic psychocultural and all of the attending problems physical and otherwise that these These communities have evolved into the mutation or the mutative consideration is enormous and as the population increases the problem ever expands.
So much so that I have seen and you have experienced that as well especially during the last administration under the P&M administration I have to say under Rowley and Short Young and whosoever and the including of course Penel Beckles they've given up they've given up and don't get me vexed before I play Rowley as to what he said when he realized that the problem of crime and criminality and of because they're getting young people uh to focus. I talk about that group of young people because it's not all of them, but it is a sufficient critical mass of them to generate the disruption, the disqu, the evil, the retrogression that we would have experienced as a people.
domestically, regionally and internationally and thus affecting the the pure and natural progress of Trinidad and Tobago.
As I said, dovex because while he was saying that he has given up Rowley when he was prime minister and that he says why he was given up he also said but listen all they know what to do because I can't make you know what to do I can't make don't get me vex before I play it I ain't going to play it now because I have to go to another computer to get the But I can do it tomorrow night if all the game effects tonight.
So that is where we are. But more significantly and why I can expand the goings on the unfavorable and unacceptable behavioral conduct that has manifested itself in crime and criminality and in greater specificity. Whether it be home invasion, whether it be kidnapping, whether it be robberies, whether it be house breaking, etc. The fact of the matter is this that a significant contribution to all of that blue collar crime scenario emanates from these communities that I have the unrelenting faith in for transformation and for contributing positively. to Trinidad and Tobago.
I say this against the background as I have indicated before.
You don't need to be a rocket scientist to understand that.
You don't even have to be selfish in terms of projecting your own community and saying that you too or they too should be similarly focused upon. You see, because there is none in the country that can match, that can override, that can overtake, that can go beyond the arguments that have just advanced for East Port of Spain, Laventil, Beta, Mileat, Samova, Malik, Chumak, Belmont, etc. Why?
None. None and all without exception cannot say or claim that their community has been the subject of international scrutiny and focus. None. And for the wrong reason none I've often mentioned and it is not for regurgitation uh purposes alone but more for emphasis that advisories against Trinidad and Tobago go emanating from the European continent, from the North American continent, whether Canada, United States, the region advises against Trinidad and Tobago.
And while that is common for obvious reasons, whether investors from the north want to of course come to these parts to invest, whether they want to just have a trip and see other parts of the world, having of course the resources so to do by way of whatever what whatever means of transport, whether it be air or whether it be by sea.
are talking about of course cruise ship and all of that in the context of Trinidad. No community has been mentioned, let me repeat, no other community in Trinidad and Tobago has been mentioned in the advisories that would that would be emanating or would have been crafted by these developed world if you want to call that or the richest countries in the world who can make an impact here by way of investment. and even by way of of the tourist product that we offer here and to attract in order to get the foreign exchange that will satisfy our foreign taste.
No other community is mentioned in these advisories.
They say don't go Trinidad because we have gotten the repetition by way of the ISIS and the international terrorists list.
We have gotten the repetition of the situation with respect to with respect to not just terrorists, but all of the issues relating to gangs and gang warfare and gangsters finding their way into England or United Kingdom. and the United Kingdom have been of course to make some adjustments to their immigration policy to prevent that from happening because they have seen they are seeing of course that Trinidad appeared to be emptying its problem into that country at one time at one point in time and what are the countries the countries uh the what what what are the communities that are are being flooded Nelson Street, Greensburg, Savannah, etc. Let me just let me just uh let me just put this together here. Uh pleas good night. Are you hearing me now?
Are you hearing me? Caller. I call back call back caller. I just adjusted the microphone and the other um apparatus to get the communication going. So the line is open. So you can of course um call. I know that the topic is a bit hot and a bit uh sensitive and the people want to know.
No other community is mentioned in these advisories against Trinidad and Tobago.
Whether it be from the United Kingdom, whether it be from France, whether it from Germany, whether it be from Italy, whether it be from Canada, whether it be from the United States, or whether it be from our Caribbean neighbors, or whether it be from Latin America, that Nelson Street is mentioned just one street away from George Street where I am now sitting.
Queens Park Sabana a stone throw away is also mentioned and that's because of the proximity the nearness of each each one to each other.
no other community.
And why can't it to be acknowledged and get into the thick skulls of those who would have gotten opportunities to address and to make decisions for Trinidad and Tobago that you have to treat with these places as a special case. Let's go to the lines. A pleasure.
Good night. Welcome to the corridor.
>> Hello. Good night. Good night.
>> Good night. Good night. Are you hearing me loud and clear?
>> Yes. All right.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
Okay.
>> Yeah. No, don't fight. No f I have to send an apology to him and some some additional information. But go ahead.
I was taking the ground report this morning and I s read all your attack and all she making uncomfortable to doing all your program with the contribution and Wilson make about >> with cats and them how she doesn't go on other program and that on that government station she part of sitting on our board and make them life miserable and that program Ste and X and program and why should come on the ground report and tell him what tell but he get bone and getting on so you get your bone you you just there just listening and that's cutting out and trying to victimize people I know what going on all so making the UNC look bad and bringing down the government when people talk about the government all vac calling them the straights there's all kind of thing people work hard just like you and opportunities because when the say show I seen it on the ground people fight and work with UNCC PN people get opportunity faster in UNCC activist and supporters and them we have to be going out there and begging like dog and ministers know we personally do the kind of work the kind of thing we do and support this government the honorable prime minister we What going on? No. Some of them picking the I reject PNM. I could call them out one by one. I the ground I watching and see what no because eyes are man eyes are fighter. I don't give up. You see that tree playing there?
When they start to program it see that man who was dealing with that man is a soul. That man sees something in me and give me the opportunity to provide a a bread on on my on my family table and me know that man from nowhere.
I meet him in one and I in UNC there and I went to a place and the man already look after me. No promises, no no broken talk. He's a man to the word and he's a and he's a man he's a Indian guy and African people around the US getting the position promising this and promising that they they looking out for the black brothers and sisters why they treating people so nice I watching and see what going on helping other people flipping the people and making sure I give them opportunities understand that and people Who in the in the UN ministers black brothers and sister look like me and you when they go by them they want to see why my head too hard and my nose too flat I don't want to push that thing but watching special we African brother so much we African brothers and sisters help black brothers and sisters off we talking about crowd appear around the country for donkeys they never offl the black brothers and sisters Lavant and them them place is supposed to be beautiful nice upliftment proper schools proper water running down by living no complain everything in order the simple rolling cing for be doing well bamboo all back down on the avenue so lenox try to talk to your black Brother, are you going?
>> I hear you, my friend. I hear you, my friend. Well, well, of of course I think um there might have been been a misunderstanding this morning because and Anderson talked about as about the cats of a particular caller who regularly um defends and and of course is a lover of cats. And therefore she he said something about um she and her and and her cats. Of course um some people took it in the wrong well in the way that um that they they felt offended vicariously for for her. But um frankly I don't my my personal view is that it wasn't that offensive having regard to the fact that the individual would refer to her cats uh you know very passionately and as Trinbeonians of course you may want to uh use certain innuendos etc. But in this case it wasn't in innuendo. It was just a matter of at at any rate we have stopped any kind of personal personal um reference of that nature to anybody on the program. So we have made that very clear and that will be will be reflected in the way how the um the director has been instructed to treat with such such callers. Right? We want to deal with the focus the issue nothing else. Uh good night my friend.
Uh I have to I I'll call you tomorrow for sure. Uh because I think um we need to um to have your involvement in order for us to um deal with this long outstanding matter. I think it is it is getting longer and longer now and we need to uh put closure to it. Uh plus good night my friend.
>> I I agree with that >> and good night to all the listeners and viewers of the corridor transformation.
you 140 something of you that looked on the corridor transformation. I don't think it had anything um offensive in um Anderson contribution this morning. Lox um to tell the honest sh I always hear people puppy show and make joke about all the cats and them that um ba had for a little while now even >> she herself she herself from time to time will say you know don't um do anything else but you know leave leave leave a cat and him out to this and and all of that and the typical Trinidadian who will want of also to weigh in on it and put their own spin to it, etc., etc. But it's all in good humor.
>> People don't have a problem with that.
>> Yeah. All in good humor.
>> Problem with that.
>> Yeah.
>> It shouldn't offend anybody else.
>> Yeah.
>> It shouldn't offend anybody else.
>> Because it's not the first time they talk about that and they laugh. They laugh about it. I hear it many times.
>> Yeah.
>> Wall Street program to make joke and that and thing.
>> Okay. But but to attack Anderson in that way and bringing about communication and our think chess that is a attack that is a attack may get involved in that but when you really look at it >> um let us I I want to say though that if that if if if that was out of an abundance of protection for the ground report we want to commend the individual for taking that stance but of course generally I I don't think that T that would have would have you know um flagged that red flag that issue but go ahead.
>> I could go I could go on some programs and I go get about 20 something clips which people joke about that.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I >> was direct to her that was direct to the animals.
>> Yeah.
>> As what that custom directing it to.
>> Yeah.
Um when you look at the senator that they want removed from parliament.
>> Uhhuh.
>> Um Lenox and listeners of the corridor transformation this this person B she agree that she did something wrong and offer her resignation.
um acknowledging that she do something wrong.
Why the PNM will try to defend that and defend that and defend that and and the penny will hold back and hold back and what what they holding back something that is wrong.
Um what them them will know the questions that the chairman and that meeting will be asking right?
>> Yes. What them went and do them went and doctor the paper and give um the the ex minister the answers on them in the papers what to say and what not to say.
>> The witness to be. Yeah.
>> How that is not an arrestable offense in parliament.
That is so illegal and so wrong. If we even go and outsmart a shop vendor, if we go and outsmart a shop vendor and get goods, we will get locked up for that.
And the PNM and PNM will defend that and defend that and alleged advice from a senior council. also a senator which is far ali advised to do that and PN still breaks in that when every UI student in this country that's studying law will say hey that is wrong coming from lawyers senior council to but I want to tell people.
You see all the destructure that Lenox Smith speaking both in these communities and them.
blame all the PNM activists and them too and all the PNM MPs and them and all the PLM counselors and them for the destruction and the neglect when when the UNC was developing this country from 2010 that the UNCC the people's partnership under the leadership of Kamela Prasad Bisa was building 129 school.
All them PNM MPs and them. All them PNM counselors and them. All them PNM act activists and them. You Wall Street you was in that too. All you condemn the 129 school when the UNCCP under the people's partnership was building that kova hospital all all you Wall Street he was in that too say she building that for Indian people in south and vote against that and glad that Rowi hold that hospital for 10 years and leave it abandoned you all support that when the people's partnership was building a UEI campus down in PE down there all they say yes Wall Street you was in that too and all the PNM counselors and all the PNM ministers and them say that they're building that down there for Indian people and deprive depriving black people studying today all they showing videos and saying look how we pm black people like monkeys. For 50 years you support that.
Today the community need assistance. The name of your program is the voice of the African diaspora. Today you play more doy roti than rather than speak on behalf of the African community. Do you see how Nelson Street is today? Do you see how Duncan Street is today? Do you see how Lavant is today? all supposed to go on all your knees.
All the PNM MPs, all the PNM counselors, all the PNM activists and them. You in that to Wall Street, the destruction that you all created in the black community for party support and for tribal support have the black community today in distribute, in destruction, in chaos, in mayhem.
And today leaders like Elen Smith fighting for 30 something years to bring stability and some kind of and some kind of motivation for the young people in this constituency.
You all will not work with him.
You all will not say look I abandon the community for 50 years and support the PLM and create that destruction. look 18 months now as supporting the UNC. Let me work with Lenox Smith and them and see what we could do because that that action in those community you all create that to keep the PNM alive all the PNM activists all the PNM counselors and all the PLM MPs and them for the past 50 years and I sending a message to all the Wall Street supporters and them too but you cannot leave out a UNC program like this and a UNCC activist like this for over 35 years and run and go and support a program that is the 18 months now UNCC and leave out the foundation and then see all these you real UNC and when UNCC activist speak out or they say all custom and say there's no UNC activist there's what there's big snake there's big snake all you know about UNCC support a UN UNCC activist who supporting UNCC for 30 years rather than a PNM activist for 50 years to UNCC activist 18 months now. Think about it. Be conscious to yourself. You wasn't born and created to think bias and controversial and sarcastic and foolish. You was created created to motivate and inspire and lead not follow. Lar thank you.
>> Thank you very much my friend. Uh thank you very much of course and what I would like to expand upon based on what he has just said and as I said I will be communicating with you on how we will move forward to get at least our inaugural program going. I think it's about time. This should be the last week for any procrastination. But let's go to the line. A pleasant good night to welcome to the corridor.
A pleasant good night to each and everyone on the corridor transformation east, west, north and south and tobago too. Share the live. Share the life.
Tell everybody Uncle Lock bad talking the UNC and that the the PLM bad talking yourself because just imagine when people have nothing good to say and to talk and see the mischief what plague this land for the last 10 years they can't talk about it and explain theirel as a true patriot. much less for a activist in the party that they're looking to say there's activist but anyway uncle >> hey good night to you >> same to you and you you have this propensity to misrepresent my my position and wise I understand is out of justest um you may find yourself in a situation where people may take it serious and next thing that they uh misinterpret and they they act on it. So I say so merely for you to uh know that that's all. Go ahead.
>> Hear what going on. You tell me I could say any day anytime on this program and feel free to call >> and I and I maintain that I and and notice I have not said stop it. I have just I just draw it to your attention.
Go ahead.
>> But Uncle Lox is okay for other people, right?
>> Yeah.
>> To say that you talking to UNCC and when your good friend that's what he mentioned that you talking to UNCC and the PNM in chaos they they know where they're going. I wrong for saying that statement. You see how you see how like one >> well you know some some people have a a roundabout way a circumlocative way of making their point because of course it is all about uh focusing on the iniquities and the iniquitous which of course in this case has been the PNM who have been in office for too damn long and have of course decimated the communities about which I have been concerned and committed myself from time immemorial all of my adult life in other words. So go ahead.
>> So to leave me to jump into to give you a piece of word here now you know when we young we don't wear no underwear.
When we start to secondary school we start to wear underwear.
Then when we married we have underwear.
When we reach 60, we don't even have underwear.
Why now?
And in politics, they still find to wash the underwear and dirty linings in the public.
But hear what going on.
>> Yeah.
You see, a true activist is more like you.
And I just aspire to be not like you, but to follow in your footstep or your shadow because to fool your shoes, my size and your size equal.
But I I could never fool your shoes.
So I tried to follow and learn.
But you see last night granny talk and say that although you get nothing and you don't do nothing, go still fight as activists.
But if I ask you tonight to ask granny to call in and ask you if she have any doctors in she family and that any of them if any doctors in she family was lobby to get work in the Trinidad or they get walk or they want to walk in Trinidad. But you see when you could stand up and see and call a donkey a donkey and a state has stayed is only when you is just upright but and you could you could have some characteristics of moral and righteousness in your heart but You see when people across time trampling on others to get to the top, this is what they will do to defend yourself to stay on the top because time and time again, right?
They will do it and when they in a comfortable place, you don't want to give it up when they feel threatened by you.
But you see I want to tell you that I did tell you about the east southeast coast where exot Mobile go and drill before they come to drill what kind of oil we have there what kind of gas we have there and close to the Guyana boundary where they drill and all are reserved and there is stung and teach who would wink the citizens alive until by signing a contract in Amsterdam to give them the company shell to TL operation license for the dragon gas.
So see where that money would have be going and that revenue would have be going while we had it right here in our waters to sustain it.
But I want to ask your children tonight on your program shorty.
Is it that Woodside was trying to block enough money or was bringing a a afforded rig to go and drill in the economic zone? I wonder because here what going on is because that them gas steel and that them development that steel and the jubilee where the money going you seeing where it affect the 13 constituency the PNM hold today and that is what we're talking about we have the resources we have it there but if you know the trick of the trade what it is do outside there Right. Let's drop the production and say we're losing money. Right. But I want the minister of energy to make me an inspector and uncle inspector energy and we go with the co gun and we do a true output and fl them wells on them right through all the installation and we'll see what what is the real output of them on them. So uncle when the PN was there for 10 years and making mischief and they deprive the own constituents.
This is what you're talking about. It reach international that I tell them don't come there because these people and them is very unemployed and at any means necessary they try to survive.
So they do anything to survive to get a dollar and in that process if you go close to those areas you could be a victim. So you see where it link to and then penny and them coming now to make mischief to say that sadam right they know what you doing but you know what I like about it thank god them could call the OPR office every day and launch a complaint but up to this day can answer how it is Muan and Allison get this kind of guarantee for gas for their plant, right? And the whole >> they get money to finance the project and leave the the rep the people that represent wanting all the time.
>> Thank you very much.
>> So you understand what I'm saying?
>> Yeah. Yeah. I get it clear loud and clear. Right. So when I say uncle, I just following others but you see I won't do like others because they don't stand with the party because if they stand with the party they will ask in there to say what was the fiscal measures and why it is the statistic office right in the ministry of finance at the um what is Gib the outlook on the economy why it is Hill was fabricated for the last 10 years when he was the and this is the outcome of it >> all thank you very much >> we got the gist we got the gist of it we got the gist of it yes indeed we got the gist of it >> the Ferrari is over the joint Select committee on national.
The government is holding on to its promise to challenge the presence of opposition senator Janelle John Bates on a second committee she sits on. This time the Ferrari is over the joint select committee on national security.
>> Uh just in case you just joined us, this is what this clip is all about. John Bates must be removed from the joint select committee on national security fought with her presence on that committee is keeping back the committee's work.
>> At the National Security Committee's April 29th meeting, Minister Rudal Munilal argued that John Bates's actions in the PAC undermined confidence in her ability to participate impartially in deliberations involving sensitive national security matters. He recommended that she be removed and replaced. John Bates rejected the call, insisting no finding of guilt had been made against her. The majority of members eventually voted in favor of her removal and for a special report to be prepared for the Senate. John Bates was absent from Tuesday's sitting with the opposition saying she was unwell.
Temporary Senator Sanji Budu attended in her place. I was quite surprised when we moved to adopt the PAC report that Senator John Bates actually voted against it. Thankfully, she's not here today to vote against it again and to show the worst example to the children of this country.
>> But opposition senators accused the government of double standards >> and it is different strokes for different folks. And there is a serious issue, Mr. president as to whether this is a situation of we and olia or we and them. If you are in the UNC and you are beholden to their oppressive policies, you are safe, it seems. But anytime you oppose, anytime you express any different view, crapo, smoke your pipe, dog, eat your supper, your cuckoo cook.
>> Independent Senator Francis Lewis urged caution, warning against what he described as a rush to judgment while other parliamentary processes remain ongoing. And my concern is a signal that it sends that a removal of a member on grounds substantially connected to the very matters under consideration is not wise. I would not want our Senate to appear to have acted prematurely and to even suggest that we have decided or concluded on outcomes that have effectively decided in advance.
>> Government Senator Anel Roberts rejected that argument saying the controversy was now distracting from the work of the committee. The mere fact that this is the second debate that we have to get up here talking about this is rather upsetting.
It's a waste of Senate time. It's a waste of resources for something that should be done so easily, so quickly.
It's just wrong.
>> The issue centers on edits made to a witness statement submitted to the PAC by former health minister Terrence Dialing. The document was filed with track changes still visible revealing edits by John Bates while she was a member of the committee. She was removed from the PAC on April 16th, referred to the privileges committee and resigned on May 1st. John, >> so yes indeed people, I thought I should, you know, replay that because it was played earlier so you get us a sense as to where we are going.
But that by itself I don't want anybody to lose the direction which I have set in relation to this issue because it has to do with how the PNM would have dealt with that matter. I didn't mention it earlier, but let me get to the gist of it now.
She resigned.
Miss Bates resigned. Senator Bates resigned from the committee.
In other words, by resign by saying that she was in fact guilty, she confessed to that egregious breach of trust that what that is normally reposed in such an office or such an officer.
She being a lawyer makes it even more what I consider to be not just horrendous, not just barbaric, not just humiliating, not just insensitive, not just doish, not just asinine, But yet still you have a situation where the political leader now of the PNM is procrastinating and giving us some of the we prefer to forget.
But she is now regurgitating, reminding us of some of the obnoxious statements that would have been projected in the political arena and to some extent added to the political lexicon, the dictionary of this country.
some of the obscene statements that would have been made by Rowley. She tried to give us a Rowley recently at the weekend family day of the PNM at Mandela Park.
Apart from procrastinating, meaning that she delaying, she has to get rid of this lady, this senator. She has procrastinated and then she says at that function over the weekend, listen, don't rush me and try somehow to to shell to excalpate to shred some of the obvious obvious Nonsensicality, nonsense, cacophonous babblings, ambulatory public utterances in relation to this matter. And of course, John Bates by by by deflecting or making reference to Annel Roberts, David Lee as people who have questions to answer and therefore nobody must tell her she penal Beckles who to put in in the Senate and for how long. We will continue we will continue after this call. A pleasant good night. Welcome to the corridor.
>> Hello. Good night.
>> Good night, my friend.
>> This is um San Fernando. Um um >> welcome San Fernando.
>> Good night to all the how much 70 people I see on the program now looking out.
>> I want to say good night to everybody.
>> Right.
>> Um tonight you're dealing with the John to sleep.
>> Not sure.
>> Yes. Yes. Yes. and uh and of course there are repercussions so that I have indicated earlier that I will extrapolate a little later but go ahead >> and I'm trying to trying to find out something where really the double standards is is it with the government or with the opposition because the opposition is claiming that the government have double standards when um John Bates have agreed of the guilt.
>> That's right. She confessed.
>> Yeah.
So I don't I don't really follow what what nonsense is that.
>> You understand what I'm saying?
>> Yeah. Because if you are making reference to David Lee, for example, who of course is a deputy political leader of the UNCC, but his matter is before the court and we have a system that says that listen, you are innocent until proven guilty. Quite apart from the fact nobody is that naive or that distant >> not to to take into account that the matter was ventilated already in the court and the courts dismissing the same matter yet still of course you put the man in double jeopardy and penal group beckers who is supposed to be a lawyer herself ought to know that it means therefore that this is a political exercise that really and truly ought to land them in further hot water uh because of the because of the meandering to do one simple thing get rid of the woman. Go ahead.
>> That's true. Yeah. You know that's that and Penny is just um fooling around with the whole issue.
>> Yes. Because um in my view if the woman admit that here what happened here what here what it is I'm guilty I'll resign let me go then go if you if you know that you did wrong then go so and >> so you are condoning you are condoning you are fostering you are fermenting behavior uh that is untenable for the position that these persons hold or put another way as a parliamentarian in general. Go ahead.
>> Yes. So, so you know um so and and Robots is quite right in the statement because it it is she she's keeping back this this bait woman is keeping back the work the work of the of the committee.
>> Yeah. and and another committee as as well the she's also on the she was also on the national security council committee and they refused to once she's present they refuse to con to convene and to conduct their business. Go ahead >> because she already did wrong. Yeah. So guys, why did >> she confess to doing wrong? She confessed to that thing she did wrong.
She confessed. And what do you think? I I you saw the the clip because I want to because I want to focus on the independent senator who said that it is premature. How could it be premature to make a judgment even though the house has sent the matter to the privileges committee which is a separate process all together but the fact is that how could you say that you are being preemptive when she confessed she can't she she she can't wipe that away she can't take it back coming from otherwise if she takes it back and and say she makes a mistake then what has to one has to consider um her mental stability.
>> Yeah. But I was um I was a bit taken back by the dates, you know, how one of the dates was um was conflicting with when she resigned and when she did.
>> Yes.
But the fact is that that the political leader of the of the PNM has refused to do the the right thing, the honorable thing, the decent thing, the the morally correct >> thing, which is of course to effect her departure from that whole and relieve her from her from her misery.
>> Yeah. from a misery because she obviously she can't feel comfortable on a daily basis but yet still the political leader of the of of the PNM um insists that she remains in that quagmire but go ahead.
>> Exactly. And sitting down on two other committees too that will make people feel uncomfortable >> of course. So she so she she has expanded the uncomfortableness. Yes.
>> So that that that is a contribution to me.
>> Thank you very much. Thank you very much.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
>> And people once again I am saying all of this I am bringing up all of this to say that our young people are looking on our young people and in this case I I love to be and whether you criticize me positively negatively it doesn't matter to me especially from east port of Spain laventil beam seats chumak mant belmont on they are looking on and they are not stupid as some people may think they are as the PNM or would have condition them to believe because a simple thing like the infallibility of the P&M is now thrown under the bus and and is now a distant memory for many because they have lost elections but they get they get out as if they don't and how and when they win they win with the very bare majority. So we know that that is a party in decline. But let's go to the line. A pleasant good night and welcome to the corridor.
>> Good night. Good night. Good night to the honorable um Lenox, the political leader of Rock the Rocket Love, >> you know, and good night to all the viewers on um corridor transformation, you know. Um the brother there always tell me I I hear when they they calling me and they say good night to the the the um the brothers. I hear the young fellow one of the I only tune in when that um that person was talking and I recognized um good night to the brother there Mr. um COP and not forgetting um Freeport Mr. a free report also you know I I hear the voice I I recognize the voice and some others here but I cannot recall the names at this point in time you know you're quite right um Lenox and the program is for the people the people in the voice in the ground what what it have people hurting it have people hurting in tuning when the brother was talking about how he work tirelessly right He work tirelessly on the ground and he's not being treated properly if I'm mistaken that same said gentleman he have a a young child with a with a girl he might pay his um rent HC home right now the it have persons it have plenty good persons in the government right good MPs we ask that they do something and you know also recognize the activists on them recog recognize the stalk watch. I hear this brother crying out in and it all is not well. All is not well. Right. And and what are happening also it have like just mayhem taking place across the state board agencies corporation right it things not supposed to be happening it happening right persons dictating things. Look the other day I hear when Lupia was talking about it have a a person they was eating a food in I think in the passport office persons just them just pick up the phone call or make a deposit or whatsoever now because we have my transfer we have entered a digital transformation world you don't have to go places you just do your transaction and you wire cost your money and you're getting the thing done not only there in the license office you could get that in the ID card office if you want something done you know Lenox you're quite right thank God for the corridor transformation bringing things and opening people eyes what is happening I observed this boy Lenox plenty of the state agencies after a time it it turned to a political football field right because when persons take those persons and put them there you feel they wouldn't do what the other person who put them there to do.
Instead of they know the right thing to do, they're doing the they're doing it opposite side. And if something supposed to go straight and then seen a lot of loopholes where have looks for instance right in in in a certain ministry, right? and they have the manpower, they have the the the the state resources, but they're still going to get contractors to bypass these workers and these state resources and machinery and all them thing to give contracts. This is this is not right because we the taxpayers, we have serious issues to be sought out, right? We have we we we we we want goods and services to continue to deliver to the people not a fraction of persons must be um polished up and what about the others? This is a serious thing you know this is a very serious thing and and again because I know just be closing off so I could make my contribution short >> tonight and I want to say Mr. Lenox because you as a polit political leader my brother I salute you because you have your memberships who depending on you. Look, look, the other day I just said a thing because I know you is a stall watch who could get things done quick but you need look for instance where we have to go not we enter into a rainy season at this point in time but and it have multiple vehicles in this in in like especially in the works ministry of works right and those vehicles are just dumb and they just need simple simple like they change the tire or the battery change the oil or or or some kind of thing. And now they they would have to get work workers to work on on these vehicles and to go out in the out sweep the roads back here and do the and while they had to wait and look for I know Mr. selling within a a hour you could get a thousand people to do the people work right and get that job done because you see downtown part of Spain that the nation capital and especially on the east west corridor as we have entered now to the rainy season if we don't act swift we will face the consequences good night again bless on lockdown >> thank you very much thank you very much uh uh I'm I'm I'm always impressed and I spare no opportunity to express that deep that deep uh appreciation, understanding and commendation to those callers and I'm sure that there are those on the blogs as well. I I don't look at it. I want to tell you that uh so uh you wouldn't find me responding or but it is there for them as a convenience as part of the technology to respond to each other whichever way but I I've always been impressed with those persons who would have taken the time and resource and um energy to call in and to express themselves and I never failed to be impressed with the quality of the contributions.
Um I prefer as most people would to deal with the issues and by and large if I have to give a percentage as to deviation from the issue I would say it was just a a one a half a percent of the callers may make reference to personality But generally it is about issue because that is what it is all about. If you give people to whom much is given much is expected and if you give people the the awesome responsibility which they have accepted by way of the legal parameters that would cause it to happen. whether it be the constitution or any other um legal recognized system or or mechanism for them to serve the people then one expects that and I was making the point earlier that those who are given that awesome responsibility my experience has been that too often it is like a recurring decimal they suddenly They're bright. They come with their own ideas. Even though is a situation that was being addressed before by persons who would have led the way would have pioneered to deal with young people for example and then suddenly somebody gets the office not the person who was dealing with the matter all the time and therefore is the right thing to do.
But I understand too that a person may be dealing with a particular issue and may not have management skills etc. But where where all of that converge management skill demonstrable success in implementation of of projects, plans and initiatives that has seen the transformation of young people in this particular case that have a propensity to gravitate to a life of crime, criminality and of course gang warfare, etc. then that is the person that must be a resource asset or be given the responsibility to continue what he or she has been doing. I mean common sense will tell you that you don't need a a rocket scientist but what I understand as well because experience is the best teacher.
You have those persons who in no are fading but because they would have been given the opportunity by whatever mechanism clearly not one of objectivity because objectivity will mean that you will search or you would have been familiar with those who have been laboring in the vineyard uh resources no resource and doing the same thing that the government would want to address in this case of course youth and delinquency, crime and criminality and you put them in office and suddenly and only when the feces hit the fan then they come back to people like me to perform miracles to perform miracles.
>> I say my job is not or to avoid that from happening.
>> It has to be. It cannot continue like that. It is not sustainable. That that awful recycling ability non-ability replacement ability non replacement and you and you go on and on in that what I consider to be perpetual cycle >> of counterproductivity.
Counterproductivity.
That's what that is. You must build on what you have and then you move forward with the best that you can produce.
And I have always said, as I've said tonight, there are no community that has been mentioned in any advisories across the globe more than East Port of Spain, Delson Street. Don't go Nelson Street, don't go Savannah, don't go Belmont, etc. Not Kua, not Lar Roain, not do Martin, not Maraval, not Tokco, not Mara, not Maracas. Yes, not Manzanilla, not Guayari, not Point4, not Labry, but Eastport of Spain and John, Nelson Street, Belmont, etc. And we have to acknowledge that and therefore what do you do to solve the problem? You you leave these people to their own women fancy and you have the largest of the state to make an intervention and to help these people to generate the trans transformation and because you come in office and you suddenly get bright and then you you fail and then the cycle continues. usually at the end of a of a of a of a term a political term or put another way a governmental term for want of a better term. But let's go to the line plus good night or welcome to the corridor. You have to be real.
>> Good evening. Good evening Dr. Lup.
>> Good good good evening to you. Um I was trying to get on to it during the week.
But do you remember around um when the property tax just before the property tax were introduced there? Um there was a lady saying that they will come and seize your microwave, your bed, your stove if you can't properly tax.
>> Yeah.
>> Well, I want you to find that if you can find that clip and play it on your report.
All right. Good night and >> thank you.
>> Take care.
>> I will. I will. I will. Thank you very much. And for we have quickly run out of time. So let me let me jump to the conclusion here. The conclusion is this that the PNM clearly has lost its way a very long time ago.
Secondly, they don't have a clue as to what to do. And how is that how is that rationalized? Is rationaliz simple.
They know what they did in the last 10 years moving our reserves from 12 billion to about $4 billion by the time the 28th of April 2025 came around. They know that they are now in oppos opposition and suddenly they have all the solutions.
But why is they were there for 10 years?
None. But what is more significant?
They are identifying what they considered to be shortcomings of the present government.
Let me repeat. They're identifying what they consider to be shortcomings of the present government. Not that the steps that are being taken and I'm satisfied that are short-term measures in order to to resurface or put another way stabilize Trinidad and Tobago across the board whether it's economic, social, crime, etc. It has to be because that will appeal and apply to your common sense because it's only about a year they are in government.
They took 10 years to do all that damage and suddenly they wanted to absolve themselves.
They wanted to relinquish any responsibility.
And why can I make that very bold statement.
Why? because none of the titular or legit leaders including the substantive leader Penelope Beckles and the baby her forunners whether it be Young or Rowley have not apologized but let's assume that they believe they're too big to apologize They have not told us what they would have done in the circumstance.
What we know however that they would have engaged in property tax.
They would have engaged in the raising of electricity rates, water rates.
And it is not inconceivable that would have they would have found other what I consider to be dastardly but creative ways to demand from the ordinary person, the citizens, the home owners where invariably they are not business people but have a single salary.
and would want to dip into that.
Why? Because their taxes are usually focused on what? On domestic, not commercial as this government has done.
You are using your home whether you call it a home you're living there or not to gain business to gain an income by virtue of rent.
Then that ought it ought not to be a burden as it would have if you were not using it for that purpose to give a piece of it in the form of the rent levy or the rental tax as some people prefer to say not so but the P&M's approach Every single person whether they have business or not on the same level got to pay and add of course to the burden of your fixed salary scenario.
That's what is that that that is essentially what the P&M has done. Focus on the ordinary person.
Notice, notice when the UNC said that they would revert to the land and building taxes before the elections of 2025 who they said they will focus on and Rowley Rowley confessed to that, you know, and don't get me vexed me before I play it too, you know. He said that they will focus on those business persons first.
But having said at that time, having said at that time, having said at that time that they will never deal with property tax, they then come and focus on the ordinary household. But let's go straight to let's go to this call. Uh good night.
>> Good night.
>> Yes. Good night to you. Yes.
>> This is granny.
>> Yeah.
>> The gentleman said call granny find out if she have any doctor's family.
>> Yes.
>> Well, let me tell you something.
I have Dr. family. He had led me on air already but I had talked right when you finish internship and you have to wait that 10 months or a year or until they call you would you sit down home >> that gentleman had he had heard me already >> you wouldn't sit down home I have family and nieces and then yes one was One went and buy in the fire market lettuce. They went in the um receipt and lettuce from doctor and selling one was selling in the drug store and um grandson is a doctor until they call them. So renew their contract. Nothing wrong in that.
You're doing something >> Yeah. I think I think the the the essence of what you're saying uh has credence. I I uh nobody could argue with that you one door closed or you are overqualified but um but your your your forte um is not available. So you look for something else. I I agree. Look for something else. Yes.
>> He feel well if there's a doctor they will apply to the government for a job where you want them apply.
>> Yeah.
>> Where you want them apply.
>> No no you you're quite right. the principle the principle that you have inunciated yes enunciated yesterday I think it is very valid so um no I don't think anybody should argue w with that >> my let me tell you something I living in beach don't have government >> now I would not encourage people to campa I would not encourage people to do No, let me tell you something.
A one foot man, a man on diialysis, if they could do something, it was a young person there activist. There was plenty of UNC human life.
>> Yeah. All right.
>> And you want to see that people life go better.
You want to see that people change their life and makeel somebody and their life for better isn't that >> yes that's right every human being would want that every parent will want that for the children etc. Go ahead.
>> He had education.
>> Yes.
>> And he will get something when he come.
>> Yes. Yes. Yes. That that would be subsistence until Yeah.
>> Okay. Look a boy. He was working in a chicken farm.
>> Yeah.
>> I want to tell you, we don't have much time. We don't have much time because we closing off now. But I'm telling you, go ahead. Let me tell you something.
I am not going to make excuse for people and get something to do.
>> Yes.
>> And that's a fundamental principle. We accept that. Right.
>> Right. So if you have to ask if she have any family which with >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I I I know it might have been physicious. Yes. Yes. Okay.
Thanks.
>> But I had said it.
>> Yeah. Yeah.
>> My family went at home and going away.
>> That's right. Exactly. and wait and wait for the government to give them something. Yeah.
>> Have butter and bread.
>> Yeah.
>> And work.
>> Yeah. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Yeah. We have to go. We have to go. All right.
>> Yeah. Uh uh and the the moral of the story is that you have to get up and get all right. But of course I gave a scenario yesterday where uh if it is that you are part of an organization and you are in this case politics and you are victimized by the by the party that was in government and your party gets in government, one expected that that victimization will be taken on on board and if if that victimization mean that you lost bread and butter then of course um some kind of facilitation must be need from a political patronage perspective to of course address that as as is the case with ministers, prime ministers and we can go on and on otherwise they should refuse um the position that they that they hold and that brings with with it of course um an ability to put food on on the table and that is the point we are making here. Uh let's take this final call. Good night.
>> Hello. Good night Lanox.
>> Good night >> Lux. We come from the concrete jungle.
We do lay back and the pan government we us to go there and hunt and get re and hunt. We just talking how we supporters at the USD and people who do support and fight like we get victimiz opportunities to >> that's right >> and you want opportunities granting you want you want to increase in your pension you see 2015 all the black communities and having nothing because the Indian community not talking like all talking Because them are opportunities because them support the USC and they getting opportunities crowd of nothing like Lenox is that man fighting for years but the black leaders and supporters in in the west crowd of deleg her her comment The admonition is commendable. Get up and get first and foremost. You a human being. You have to you have to survive in this jungle so to speak, this uh jungle of various nature, not not trees and plants and so on, but one of of a sociological nature, an economic nature. But at at the same time, there are exceptions to the rule.
And that is that if it is that you attach yourself to a political entity and that you were victimized as a consequence of doing that by those who were in power then of course there should be some facilitatory mechanism and it's only right as a human being because um there are those who would have been subjected to the same kind of what I consider to be recriminations and um and hostility and Now the situation has reversed or has been reversed because of the intervention of the party that you would have served.
That is called political patronage. I've always said that otherwise you had to tell Trump not to putting the Democrats and them when of course he is announcing his his ministers or his secretaries as the case may be. You do the same thing in Grenada, St. Vincent and Dominica.
That is part and parcel of it. Including of course where the mecca of our Westminster system, the United Kingdom.
That is where we get it from. And why that is so because it is your people that will execute most likely will execute your policies and programs.
There are some that would betray the cause. Of course, we had a recent example with respect to Victor Roberts, but those are far and in between and and ex and and exceptions to the rule.
They're exceptions to the rule. But generally your people are expected. Why?
Because at the end of the day that political entity must now account to the people in our case five years hence as to what you would have done and you must be now look for another term uh by saying I did XYZ and therefore I deserve another term. That is how the system is simple simple like that. So let us not fool ourselves into believing that somehow what the reality is in circumstances as I have mentioned that the person have no right to to have expectations. In fact it is the duty of the party to say and we have seen that the prime minister current has said in nertain terms there's room for everybody. What do you think that means? what you think that means and was very specific when she talked about board appointments etc etc but I have to acknowledge that those who come out of the woodwork so to speak and get an opportunity because there's a friend of this one because everybody have their friend um some closer than others they would try to defend or protect something and and whether advertently or inadvertently deprive those who are deserving of getting their opportunity to serve.
Not necessarily to put food on on the table because that will naturally come, but to serve.
And I have said in non-ertain terms and I mean it.
I am prepared to work for free for the UNCC but never for the PNM.
And if you have a resourced individual like myself, there's nobody else in in in in Lavventail in the country that have had the kind of experience and knowhow and still operating today.
And you will always be a target just as the prime minister and just like every single minister. You heard with the opposition leader trying to deprive us here in Lavventil and you out there in East Port of Spain and so on of job opportunities.
How she is doing that even as opposition leader they have already done it with respect of course to being in government but here it is in in opposition.
They have literally weaponized the office of the of procurement by raising objections and something million. So uh 1.4 billion and next way and these things have to be delayed and every delay it means that therefore less job opportunities in that period until the matter is resolved uh by the by the office of the of procurement. That's what they have done.
And quite apart from the fact that when the UNC in its previous incarnation they said listen all these buildings and notice are pointing at it because they're right outside here across the street. All these buildings you give of course the people it once you could certify for $100.
It was the P&M that said no that is a trick. And today they don't own nothing.
And the P&M went on of course to to displace them because they want of course to bring the 1 percentersenters and to take the real estate that potentially is the most valuable in the country because it is on the eastern outskirts of what on the eastern skirts or the eastern border of port of Spain.
That's what the P&M did us.
But the problem but that seem intractable in my view young people gravitated to a life of crime etc etc. I think I think I am not satisfied not I think I am not satisfied that more could not have been done.
There's too much reliance on the police.
There's too much reliance on state of emergency.
And I want to tell those independent and PNM people when uh when the ZOSO bill comes back, I want to tell the government that they have to focus their promotion and their awareness and their and their efforts at mobilizing the people to focus on the part of that bill that talks about the legal requirement if a place is called a zoo. The legal requirement of the government to fix the roads to make sure children go to school to make sure sporting grounds and sporting activities take place with the committee that would be set up in that zoo.
While people like myself can now get some breathing space to do what?
To generate to those capacity building initiatives whether it's infrastructure, roads, drains, pavements etc. electricity, telephone and so on, employment while the police handles those elements that are still recalitrant and willing of course to take the the community and by extension the country down a road where advisories against Trinidad and Tobago will never be subsided. That's what we are talking about here.
I said so in opposition and I saying so now and as head of the of of love entering of course the in the coalition of interest I cared no not two foot about those who have character assassination agenda to pursue themselves as persons who are credible and can take anything forward.
Otherwise they will be doing tonight what I am doing as well. Maybe in some other slot. So I have no quams. I have no respect for such elements. I'm too old in this game for that. So let's get it clear and in the fullness of time as I've always said and I said it today in a very significant meeting that way meet your impassio and what is for you is is for you especially if you are unique in an area where the society has a demand it's just a matter of time so a year notice I talk the same thing about the PNM and and and and they would have to call early elections and I did that what about two years before they eventually of course did it maybe with about seven or nine months but they they did it earlier than as was predicted they call election earlier because the pressure was too much and incidentally of course in closing let me say to Penel Penelope Beckles no the present government is not is not in any way in a state of shambles.
No way at the end of its wits. No, it is the PNM and that statement that you would have made not apologizing, not saying where you will what you will do and more importantly being a hamburger for the very people who you say you love that you said was displaced from CPEP URP and the other programs.
But that love clearly is one of convenience for your own political agenda. Because if you had any sincerity about that, you will never try to hamburg the $1.4 4 billion dollar in potential employment as well as satisfying the what the housing needs of quite a lot of persons in a situation where the government has no money to put out. You should be supporting the government rather than attempting to weaponize in your interests in your warped and evil political interests. Weaponize the office of procurement.
It is dastard. It is evil. It is wicked.
And it's a continuation of that evil.
That is why I could say without fear of contradiction the PNM must be relegated to the dustbin of political history in this country must be must be. So have no sympathy for me.
What I want to see is that those who I have labored over the years as a society, as a community, physical uh psychological as well as human, that they get their fair share and they rise to the occasion at the appropriate time, knowing that they must divest themselves of the PNM, the iniquitous and the impediment to advancing and development. Uh I saw Joshua wanting to to say something um before we close. So Joshua if you if you wish come and um and make your make your statement or whatever it is. Uh we have not been able of course and we to to deal with the uh the youth corner as we call it from half past 5 but we'll we'll we'll get there just as we'll get there with Mr. cop as well. So, let let me hear where I >> Yes.
>> All right, everybody.
>> Yeah.
>> I just wanted to say well my birthday pass was the third of May. So, I just want to say happy birthday to my mother today, my granny Pinky.
for a lot of months, probably like a year.
>> Mhm.
>> Um, Mr. and Mr. Kendrick, Miss Benjamin, and everybody celebrating this month.
Tomorrow is my every birthday and Matthew one.
>> All right, that's it.
>> Yeah, that's it. Oh, wait.
>> Hey, listen. I had one rest for in the morning, you know. So, come on. Uh, you you you you are home because I think he has some he's under the weather these days. So, he's not at school, but so he's resting. I have to get up in the morning. So, go ahead. Conclude.
Conclude.
>> Yes. Now, I have some selling here. He's a businessman.
>> So the jazz went so green and you can't see it.
Is he true?
>> Yeah, because of the background that we have. So you wouldn't be able to see the green because the background is green here.
>> And it's a rose soap are selling.
Anybody that comes I will ask if >> Yeah. What's the cost? What's the price?
What's the price?
>> $5.
for one soap.
>> For one soap, I sell it in one. I sell two. Two and three and four.
>> All right. Okay. So, uh so at minimum, you'll have to put out $10 uh if you want to get your soap that you have on sale.
>> Yeah. But I really want to sell by the one because make money.
>> All right. Okay. Or or or you would make it quickly.
Well, I could just say well I could just say seven2.
>> All right. Well, you will determine that is your soap and is your investment. So people of course uh yes we we have come to the end of tonight's program. I trust that that information disclosed will be um considered and that you will make the kind of valuable contribution that you continue to make. Don't forget of course that tomorrow morning at the ground report Andy and myself as we continue with these and other topic. It is it has to be said and it must be said and and really and truly if we love Trinidad and Tobago and you love your community you'll certainly of course understand why the why we are focused up upon is so important. Yes indeed.
>> In the next man.
Why the Satan wickedness in the poor man community? So you say that you're a bad man. How much gun you got? You love to B gunshot. Well, I say you must mad man.
No time for that. You're a idiot. And let me hear it from the voices in the ghetto.
Badness out of style. Sing it again and let me hear it echo.
Badness out of style. Don't want no bad groups. No more bad troops coming to rob and shoot. We should be taking time to nurture the youth. You remember somebody cross the border line and man alongside anyway blessing the walk in the council of the sinnersful delight in the love of the Lord.
like the rivers of that bring the wicked drive away in the congregation of the righteous not a judgment. Anybody hear me say lava?
As I lay myself to sleep over my soul, you should die before I hold my soul. You accept.
Yeah. Yeah. Cuz Lucifer is Roman with his eyes wide open.
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