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Saturday, July 26, 2025

Kamla: I have no problem with Warner

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20120205

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says she has no prob­lems with Works and In­fra­struc­ture Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er. She said so yes­ter­day in re­sponse to ques­tions about per­ceived dif­fer­ences be­tween Warn­er and her­self. Warn­er had been com­plain­ing of los­ing em­ploy­ees of his Pro­gramme for Up­grad­ing Roads Ef­fi­cien­cy (PURE). He al­so abort­ed a per­son­al cam­paign ti­tled A Fish­er­man's Cry to pe­ti­tion the Gov­ern­ment to en­sure the death penal­ty was car­ried out ac­cord­ing to the laws of T&T. He launched the cam­paign on Wednes­day in re­sponse to the deaths of three fish­er­men from Ch­agua­nas. He, how­ev­er, called off the pe­ti­tion on Fri­day af­ter three Cab­i­net min­is­ters-Plan­ning and the Econ­o­my Dr Bhoen­dra­datt Tewarie, Arts and Mul­ti­cul­tur­al­ism Min­is­ter Win­ston Pe­ters and To­ba­go De­vel­op­ment Min­is­ter Ver­nel­la Al­leyne-Top­pin-said they would vote with the Cab­i­net on the mat­ter.

Jus­tice Min­is­ter Her­bert Vol­ney had ex­pressed sup­port for Warn­er's move. Per­sad-Bisses­sar told re­porters on Fri­day that Warn­er's ini­tia­tive was not sanc­tioned by the Cab­i­net. She said the Gov­ern­ment re­mained com­mit­ted to car­ry­ing out the death penal­ty but there re­mained a crit­i­cal need for new leg­is­la­tion to en­sure the it can be im­ple­ment­ed. Yes­ter­day, in an in­ter­view, she dis­missed con­cerns among the pop­u­la­tion that there was a rift be­tween Warn­er and her. "I have no prob­lems with Mr Warn­er," she in­sist­ed. "Mr Warn­er is a very hard-work­ing min­is­ter and re­mains a very im­por­tant part of the Cab­i­net, like all the oth­er min­is­ters.

And Per­sad-Bisses­sar al­so dis­missed claims by some cit­i­zens that she did not ac­knowl­edge Warn­er at her sec­ond an­niver­sary cel­e­bra­tions as po­lit­i­cal leader of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) at Rien­zi Com­plex on Jan­u­ary 24. Re­spond­ing to claims that she did not hold Warn­er's hands while she held oth­er min­is­ters' hands while on stage, Per­sad-Bisses­sar in­sist­ed: "That is not true, that is not true at all. I did hold Mr Warn­er's hands. There is a pic­ture to prove that." Per­sad-Bisses­sar said the Gov­ern­ment re­mained com­mit­ted to im­prov­ing the qual­i­ty of life for all cit­i­zens of T&T.


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