Gail Alexan­der

Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porter

UNC LEADER KAM­LA PER­SAD-BISSES­SAR at last Sat­ur­day's Ma­coya ral­ly:

"If, af­ter 10 years, you come to cam­paign and have noth­ing to of­fer cit­i­zens, then move, PNM move! Leh we pass! If, af­ter 10 years, you pop up as a Prime Min­is­ter in the same way all these oth­er PNM-fi­nanced par­ties pop­ping up all over the place ... I say Move out we way! Leh we pass!"

PRIME MIN­IS­TER STU­ART YOUNG at PNM's Tu­na­puna meet­ing last Sat­ur­day:

"You have to ask your­self - for 10 years the UNC was out of gov­ern­ment, where is the mon­ey com­ing from for every ad in the news­pa­pers, on TV, they flood­ing the ra­dio, they pay­ing in­flu­encers! Where is that mon­ey com­ing from? I'm telling you, I strong­ly sus­pect the peo­ple who are fund­ing that cam­paign are peo­ple who want to stay out of jail and peo­ple who have trou­ble in court!"

UNC's MICHAEL KERR at last Sat­ur­day’s Ma­coya ral­ly, in­tro­duc­ing, “A man who has been de­scribed as the lo­cal George Clooney of pol­i­tics, St Joseph can­di­date, De­vesh Ma­haraj!”

PNM’s THA MI­NOR­I­TY LEADER KELVON MOR­RIS at PNM’s PNM To­ba­go ral­ly ac­cus­ing the TPP-led THA of be­ing “…a par­ty suf­fer­ing from a dis­ease called Li­a­betes…”

COP LEADER PRAKASH RA­MAD­HAR at last Sat­ur­day's UNC Ma­coya ral­ly:

"Many have asked, ‘Prakash, why you aren’t run­ning for a seat’. I’m not in­ter­est­ed where I sit, I’m in­ter­est­ed where we stand with the peo­ple of T&T!"

PRIME MIN­IS­TER STU­ART YOUNG ad­dress­ing last Sun­day’s To­ba­go ral­ly:

"... I start by de­clar­ing my bias for To­ba­go ... a place I love very dear­ly. I’d made a call to my fa­ther ask­ing him where he and mom had their hon­ey­moon - (it was) right here in Buc­coo! So claim me as your own: a prod­uct of a mar­riage in Trinidad with a hon­ey­moon in To­ba­go! ... You here in To­ba­go are crit­i­cal to the PNM re­tain­ing Gov­ern­ment ... I’ve al­ready count­ed the two To­ba­go seats to form the next gov­ern­ment.”

UNC LEADER KAM­LA PER­SAD-BISSES­SAR at last Thurs­day’s UNC can­di­date un­veil­ing:

“Stu­art Young talks about a ‘New Chap­ter’ with the same wicked Cab­i­net mem­bers ... is the same old! What new chap­ter he talk­ing about? The on­ly new thing is when you get the lick­ing of your life on April 28!”

SE­NIOR COUN­SEL LAR­RY LAL­LA on last Sat­ur­day's PNM’s Tu­na­puna plat­form in St Au­gus­tine de­tail­ing years of is­sues with UNC's lead­er­ship:

So I tell you all of this so you'll ap­pre­ci­ate the fact that Lal­la didn't just roll off his bed one morn­ing and de­cide he was go­ing to jump ship and sup­port PNM ... hav­ing giv­en nine years of my life to at­tempt­ing to get that par­ty to change, I can safe­ly say with a clear con­science - dey hope­less!"

OW­TU PRES­I­DENT GEN­ER­AL AN­CEL RO­GET at last Sat­ur­day's Ma­coya ral­ly, singing:

"On April 28, with hands in the air, we win­ing low, we glad dat the PNM go - we don’t need dem no-mo,' we’ll get a bless­ing!”

PNM TO­BA­GO WEST CAN­DI­DATE SHAM­FA CUD­JOE-LEWIS at last Sun­day's PNM's To­ba­go ral­ly:

"I want you to tell Far­ley that the same bass he does use in his voice for Dr Row­ley, tell him use dat with Kam­la! Don't play spine­less and stu­pid ... gig­gling like a lit­tle girl ... use the same bass!"

PEP LEADER PHILLIP ALEXAN­DER at last Sat­ur­day's UNC Ma­coya ral­ly:

”We go­ing and break your heart! Yuh dad­dy kya save you from dis cut­tail! Stu­art Young fool­ing he­s­elf … no­body doh like yuh! April 28 elec­tion day we are go­ing to beat you bad!...this is just the pre­view. The main event still to come…”

PNM GEN­ER­AL SEC­RE­TARY FOS­TER CUM­MINGS, sip­ping re­fresh­ment, dur­ing his Tu­na­puna meet­ing state­ments:

"In the PNM, we drink - wa­ter. You can't be on no charge and be a can­di­date in PNM ... in La Hor­quet­ta/Tal­paro, no mat­ter who they bring - Watts, Ki­lo Watts, Mega Watts. all over T&T, we'll whip them seat by seat! We'll re­tire Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar from pol­i­tics!"