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Monday, July 7, 2025

GYPSY WALKS THROUGH MORUGA

by

Peter Christopher
1870 days ago
20200523
Flashback: Winston Peters gives a sign to members of the media as he makes his way into Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s, to face the PNM’s screening commitee for the for the Moruga/Tableland seat.

Flashback: Winston Peters gives a sign to members of the media as he makes his way into Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s, to face the PNM’s screening commitee for the for the Moruga/Tableland seat.

ABRAHAM DIAZ

The prospec­tive can­di­date for the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment Win­ston "Gyp­sy" Pe­ters may not have been of­fi­cial­ly an­nounced as the par­ty's choice for the Moru­ga/Table­land con­stituen­cy, but he vis­it­ed the area on Sat­ur­day to meet sev­er­al PNM ac­tivists and cam­paign for the par­ty's re-elec­tion.

There had been a few protests fol­low­ing the an­nounce­ment that Pe­ters, a for­mer Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress MP, was the sole can­di­date se­lect­ed by the Moru­ga/Table­land com­mit­tee to be screened for the up­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tion.

Fol­low­ing that rev­e­la­tion many staged protests in the area stat­ing "No Lovell, no vote," clam­our­ing for the in­cum­bent MP, Dr Lovell Fran­cis to be giv­en an­oth­er chance.

Pe­ters took part in a meet and greet in the Samuel Coop­er Vil­lage, where he was joined by chair­man of the con­stituen­cy, David Trim. He ad­dressed the con­cerns raised by the protest­ing group.

"Peo­ple have their peo­ple, who ac­tu­al­ly they were at­tached to all the time, and then you are be­com­ing de­tached from them. It must be a lit­tle emo­tion­al sit­u­a­tion. But I will deal with that emo­tion­al sit­u­a­tion in terms of bring­ing us to­geth­er," said Pe­ters.

"The com­mon thread here is that we are one par­ty, it's not that I'm com­ing from a next par­ty and ask­ing you to do some­thing. We are one par­ty with one com­mon goal, I don't think any of us want to do any­thing that would keep us out of gov­ern­ment. I think that all of us want to do some­thing that would keep us in gov­ern­ment."

Pe­ters, the cur­rent Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion chair­man, had been screened on Thurs­day. How­ev­er, de­spite re­ports that the screen­ing went well, he was not of­fi­cial­ly an­nounced as the par­ty's can­di­date.

The for­mer Ca­lyp­so Monarch and mul­ti­ple na­tion­al Ex­tem­po cham­pi­on said that he will not make a state­ment to me­dia con­cern­ing his can­di­da­cy un­til an of­fi­cial an­nounce­ment is made by the PNM.

Pe­ters had for­mer­ly been a mem­ber of the UNC, serv­ing as Or­toire/Ma­yaro MP from 2000 to 2002 and Ma­yaro MP from 2007 to 2015 as a mem­ber of that par­ty. He quit the UNC in Au­gust 2015 days be­fore the Sep­tem­ber 7 gen­er­al elec­tion, af­ter he was not se­lect­ed as a can­di­date by the UNC. He ap­peared at a PNM ral­ly days lat­er.

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