Shal­iza Has­sanali

"We eh fraid you, Row­ley. Row­ley, we're com­ing for you." This was the warn­ing from Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er and At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Anand Ram­lo­gan yes­ter­day at the pre-bud­get ral­ly at Mid Cen­tre Mall, Ch­agua­nas. Warn­er said, "If you touch one, you touch all." To the end of his speech, Warn­er called for Ram­lo­gan who locked arms with him and both said they were go­ing nowhere. "We stay­ing right here."

Warn­er played a sound­track that he called "Let the truth be told" to the crowd's de­light. It fea­tured mem­bers of the Op­po­si­tion vot­ing in favour of the con­tro­ver­sial Sec­tion 34 in Par­lia­ment. When it was Row­ley's turn to vote, Warn­er shout­ed, "Wait! Wait! Ah want to hear Row­ley's voice." Warn­er kept shout­ing: "Yessss. Yesssss. Yessss. Yessss!" Warn­er told the crowd that un­der the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment, po­lice sta­tions were "falling down and clos­ing down left, right and cen­tre."

"When you called the po­lice, they had no ve­hi­cles to come to your res­cue. Ris­ing and ram­pant crime was the or­der of the day. Nev­er ever for­get the ram­pant cor­rup­tion un­der the PNM." He said eight po­lice sta­tions were be­ing re­fur­bished and 5,000 SRPs were be­ing re­cruit­ed to help curb crime. He boast­ed that for the last 20 days there were no mur­ders in Laven­tille, Warn­er praised Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar for her walk­a­bout in Laven­tille, say­ing no oth­er prime min­is­ter had done that out of an elec­tion sea­son.