‘Who dead, dead, who live, live. Lazy Rowley must play golf.’ – Kamla Persad-Bissessar
By Prior Beharry
DR Keith Rowley is the laziest prime minister in the history of Trinidad and Tobago.
This according to Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar speaking at the Monday Report in Fyzabad.
She said, “Who dead, dead, who live, live. Lazy Rowley must play golf.”
Persad-Bissessar then showed photos of Dr Rowley playing golf in Barbados.
Dr Rowley announced last Thursday that he was going on a mini vacation last weekend. He said it was planned some time ago.
The opposition said that given the state of the country with an upsurge in crime, this was the wrong time for the PM to take a vacation.
Persad-Bissessar said Dr Rowley was on a golf course in Barbados enjoying a luxury vacation.
She said, “Our country is in tatters and in tears but this man is swinging a gold club in Barbados without a care for what is happening (in T&T).”
Persad-Bissessar said, “Many are struggling to buy basic food – bread, meat, cheese, whatever it is you buy, tomato bhaigan. Struggling to buy these things, but our tax dollars are paying for the laziest prime minister in the history of T&T.”
She said, “We used to say he is incompetent yes, we used to say he’s corrupt, we say all kinds of things, but I think bottom line, basic line, this is the laziest prime minister in the history of T&T.”
Persad-Bissessar said, “This lazy government wants power without responsibility. They want the privileges that come with holding public office but they don’t want the responsibility, the accountability that comes with holding office and they do not want to work.”
“It is clear to every single person in our country that lazy Keith Rowley didn’t want to become prime minister to serve the people. He wanted to become prime minister to tee off all over the world.”
Speaking about the recently concluded symposium on crime held at the Hyatt Regency in Port of Spain, Persad-Bissessar said that Dr Rowley initially said that it cost $1.5 million and the figure went up to $3 million.
She said, “I am being told by public officials that it is more in the region of $15 million spent on that crime symposium. Can you believe it but they are shameless and they are lazy. So they will sit in the Hyatt… talk, talk, talk and nothing gets done.”
And if you ask the prime minister he will say, ‘I don’t know, I don’t have to account, I don’t know anything about that’…”
Persad-Bissessar said, “Our ports have no scanners, our CCTV cameras are all down, the TTPS does not have vehicles it needs to respond to crime but government felt that spending $15 million at the Hyatt to talk about crime was more important than resourcing the TTPS, resourcing the ports.”
She added, “If you want to know what causes crime, go down to the prison and talk to prisoners, they would tell you what caused them to become involved in that life.”
Persad-Bissessar said, “It will cost you some gas money maybe and some of your time, not sitting at the Hyatt and spending $15 million.”
She said that after $15 million, the country woke up on Monday to hear from cricket icon Brian Lara who took the time to reach out in distress as one of his childhood friends was murdered in his hometown of Santa Cruz last week. The opposition leader also showed the viral footage of the men being fatally shot.
