By Prior Beharry
OPPOSITION Senator Anil Roberts says the People’s National Movement is like a magician, making everything go “poof.”
Speaking during the Budget debate in the Senate on Wednesday, Roberts said, “The PNM are magicians, everything goes poof. They borrow a $147 billion – poof it gone, the Treasury empty – poof, the refinery – poof it gone.
“Beautiful, brilliant magician, but the PNM is classic catfish for the young people who now understand because if they watch, the PNM is Simran from Sweet Boby on Netflix. If you know you know.”
He said oil production was 78,000 barrels per day under a United National Congress government with energy minister Kevin Ramnarine.
Roberts said under the current Minister of Energy Stuart Young that figure was now 53,000 to 55,000 bpd.
He said current natural gas production was 2.6 billion cubic feet per day down from 3.8 bcf under the UNC.
He said, “Yet that minister, the acting prime minister comes here with arrogance; I have never seen a failure be so arrogant so confident. It is amazing. I think in the Balisier House somehow they do some operation when they join there; they take out two things – shame and conscience.”
Roberts also turned his guns on newly appointed Senator Ancil Dennis who replaced Laurel Lezama-Lee Sing.
About Dennis, he said he learned three things: “One, somehow I now understand how he managed to lose a fixed election.
“Two, I now realise that former senator Lezama Lee-Sing wasn’t that bad.
“And three, while he criticises the Tobagonian Ashworth Jack about some pumpkin house, whether pumpking house, bhaggi house or cassava house, Ashworth Jack never reach home and see his clothes in a garbage bag outside.”
Senate President Nigel De Freitas cautioned Roberts about going down that line.
