Ro­man Catholic priest Fr Clyde Har­vey says the re­al chal­lenge for the Peo­ples Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) is that the par­ty must be wor­thy of lead­er­ship in or­der to gov­ern. He said that no po­lit­i­cal par­ty was in­dis­pens­able in T&T no mat­ter "how much you may have done." He said the the PNM must re­turn to its roots and prin­ci­ples. Har­vey made the com­ment on Tues­day af­ter­noon in his homi­ly dur­ing the memo­r­i­al ser­vice to com­mem­o­rate the 30th an­niver­sary of the pass­ing of Dr Er­ic Eu­stace Williams.

The ser­vice took place at the Cathe­dral of the Im­mac­u­late Con­cep­tion, In­de­pen­dence Square, Port-of-Spain. The event was at­tend­ed by mem­bers of the late prime min­is­ter's fam­i­ly and key mem­bers of the op­po­si­tion.Among them were the PNM's Po­lit­i­cal Leader Dr Kei­th Row­ley, ed­u­ca­tion of­fi­cer Neil Parsan­lal, chair­man of the par­ty Franklin Khan, Op­po­si­tion Chief Whip Mar­lene Mc Don­ald and Sen­a­tor Fitzger­ald Hinds. "May God heal the PNM so that through you and oth­ers T&T can be healed." Har­vey told the packed con­gre­ga­tion.

Har­vey added: "The founder and the prin­ci­ples are al­ways to be in a dy­nam­ic re­la­tion­ship with the par­ty. One fun­da­men­tal prin­ci­ple is that you must have no di­vine right to rule. "If you say that, you must al­so say that no par­ty is in­dis­pens­able to Trinidad and To­ba­go no mat­ter how much you may have done."

Re­port­ing by Charles Kong Soo.