By Prior Beharry
Creating a better Trinidad and Tobago.
This is how political leader of the Progressive Empowerment Party (PEP) Phillip Edward Alexander described the open mic forum taking place at Bamboo No.1 opposite Grand Bazaar on Saturday.
Speaking to AZP News on Friday, he said, “It is a conversation with the people. It’s an open microphone. We have invited many contributors from public life, civil society who do not necessarily endorse me or the PEP but are coming to have a conversation about where we are and where we need to be and where we need to go as a nation.”
Alexander who has started his “Phillip Will Fix It” campaign to highlight and try solve problems throughout the country, said Saturday’s event was more like a public one.
He said entertainment will be provided by Prophet Benjamin, other calypsonians, East Indian dancers and a tassa group
Alexander added, “It’s an event. It’s a gathering.”
He said the event was taking place at its Bamboo office where “central meets south, meets north, meets east. It’s a good location for everybody to get to.”
What does he want to achieve?
He said, “An awareness, an awakening, a groundswell of people who want a better country realising that we do not have to continue this way. That we can be the change we want to see in this country.”
Alexander said, “The PEP is offering itself as the vehicle (for a better T&T) and hopefully more people will come on board and see that they, like me and others, have a responsibility to build the change we want.”
