Kim­ber­ly Mack­han

Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) po­lit­i­cal leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­mains un­de­cid­ed about ei­ther wear­ing a sling for the next cou­ple of months or op­er­at­ing on her frac­tured left shoul­der to re­cu­per­ate from her re­cent in­juries. "Well, I am con­sult­ing with my doc­tor and I have not made a de­ci­sion on that," she told the T&T Guardian yes­ter­day. She ad­mit­ted that she re­mained in ex­treme pain and was tak­ing painkillers. She has not al­lowed the pain to de­ter her from re­turn­ing to work and was prepar­ing for a meet­ing with the ex­ec­u­tive of the Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) at 3 pm to­day at the PSA head­quar­ters, for con­tin­ued dis­cus­sion on the Trinidad and To­ba­go Rev­enue Au­thor­i­ty Bill. Per­sad-Bisses­sar's doc­tor has of­fered her two op­tions to heal her frac­tured left shoul­der: ei­ther let the wound heal on its own or in­stall screws. She sus­tained the frac­ture last Fri­day af­ter trip­ping in the Par­lia­ment cham­ber and crash­ing to the ground.

Her in­juries did not hin­der her from at­tend­ing Sat­ur­day night's UNC Peo­ple's Par­ty at Rien­zi Com­plex in Cou­va. "Though in some pain, her in­domitable will per­se­veres," UNC chair­man Jack Warn­er said in an e-mail. "No fall can stop our col­lec­tive de­ter­mi­na­tion to bring re­solve to the plunge of an en­tire Re­pub­lic. The work con­tin­ues un­abat­ed." Dur­ing a tele­phone in­ter­view with the T&T Guardian yes­ter­day, Warn­er al­so sought to clear up mis­con­cep­tions that he was blanked from ad­dress­ing at­ten­dees of the UNC Peo­ple's Par­ty. He said: "Mrs Per­sad-Biss­esar came late. We were sup­posed to be­gin at eight and con­tin­ue to nine in the night. But be­cause of her health, she ar­rived at nine-some­thing, so we cut the pro­gramme."