Sascha Wil­son

Labour Min­is­ter Er­rol McLeod has re­ject­ed calls for him to aban­don the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship Gov­ern­ment and re­turn to the trade union move­ment.Speak­ing at the UNC's Mon­day Night Fo­rum, McLeod made it clear that Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is his leader and he re­mained loy­al to her.

It was on May Day last week that An­cel Ro­get, pres­i­dent gen­er­al of the Oil­field Work­ers Trade Union–for­mer­ly led by McLeod–plead­ed with him to "come home be­fore it is too late," warn­ing that his­to­ry would be un­for­giv­ing to those who turned their backs on the trade unions.

But ad­dress­ing the fo­rum McLeod said: "Last Tues­day a runt of a lit­tle de­spi­ca­ble mis­cre­ant was on his ra­dio fre­quen­cy con­demn­ing Er­rol McLeod. Mine is a his­to­ry that no­body will erase in T&T and that is in the minds of work­ers some of whom are be­ing mis­led to­day...

"When I went to Fyz­abad on April 21, 2010 I said to the world that in this or­gan­i­sa­tion, this part­ner­ship, Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is my leader. I did not come out of re­tire­ment to join this to be used and abused and I am not go­ing to be con­trolled by any­body out­side of the Gov­ern­ment."He said he was mak­ing a com­mit­ment to im­prove the lot of work­ers."And I will re­main in the PP Gov­ern­ment so long as Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar will have me there," he added.