A new People's National Movement (PNM) government will not cancel any Coast Guard vessels ordered by the People's Partnership administration, party leader Dr Keith Rowley said yesterday.
He and PNM vice-chairman Colm Imbert were responding to questions at the Hyatt Regency, Port-of-Spain, following yesterday's general election manifesto launch.
Asked if the PNM would cancel the vessels, Rowley said the party was not in the "cancelling business" and "political spite and dotishness" would not form part of PNM's credo.
On if the PNM would halt the PP's laptop plan, Rowley said it was necessary to integrate the laptop plan with the current teaching programme, since reports showed a large proportion of the equipment wasn't used in teaching programmes. An audit of the Children's Life Fund would also be conducted, Imbert said, but they would not shut it down.
On his view on gay rights, same sex marriage and the decrimininalisation of marijuana, Imbert said that was not addressed in the manifesto. Rowley said such matters, as "fashionable as they are, require discussion and we need to talk about these things" (GA)