Prior Beharry
OPPOSITION LEADER Kamla Persad-Bissessar says her party will take all legal steps to remove the People’s National Movement (PNM) from office.
She said, “The Opposition will continue, as I said before, to press for bread, peace and justice.
“We’ll take all legal steps that we can to have this corrupt, incompetent Government removed from office once and for all.”
Persad-Bissessar was speaking to the media outside of the Red House in Port of Spain on Friday after meeting with union officials who presented her with a “no-confidence motion” on Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley.
Following a declaration on Labour Day, Sunday, trade union members delivered letters expressing lack of confidence in Dr Rowley to President Paula-Mae Weekes at her St Ann’s Office and then proceeded to the Parliament building to deliver similar letters to Senate President Christine Kangaloo, Speaker of the House of Representatives Bridgid Annisette-George and Persad-Bissessar.
The opposition leader left the sitting of the Lower House to meet representatives of the trade unions on Ambercromby Street. She was accompanied by former trade unionists Rudy Indarsingh, who is also the MP for Couva South, and UNC Senator Wade Mark.
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Presenting the document were head of the Joint Trade Union Movement (JTUM) Ancet Roget and leader of the National Trade Union Centre (NATUC) Michael Annisette.
Close to 200 people gathered outside the seat of Parliament and some chanted “Rowley must go.”
Speaking to the media, Roget said, “If it’s one thing that we are going to expose is the wickedness and vindictiveness and the lack of proper governance coming from this Government headed by its incompetent Prime Minister Dr Kieth Christopher Rowley.”
He said, “Give support to the activities that we will be putting on the ground to make sure that they listen and not only listen but that they put in place measures that would alleviate the pressure and the hardship and the pain and the suffering on the ordinary poor people and workers.”
Roget said the unions will next have a motorcade in San Fernando to Port of Spain on July 3 to highlight the issue.
