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Young urges PNM members to vote for right leadership

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Gail Alexander
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Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, 2nd from left, sits with his Leaders in Service team during the launch of their PNM internal election campaign at the Belmont Community Centre earlier this month. The other candidates are, from left, Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly, Stuart Young, Faris Al-Rawi, Maxine Richards and Kazim Hosein.

Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, 2nd from left, sits with his Leaders in Service team during the launch of their PNM internal election campaign at the Belmont Community Centre earlier this month. The other candidates are, from left, Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly, Stuart Young, Faris Al-Rawi, Maxine Richards and Kazim Hosein.

Courtesy Maxine Richards' Facebook page

Gail Alexan­der

This week­end, PN­Mites must vote wise­ly for the right lead­er­ship - and not for those peo­ple who are echo­ing the UNC's nar­ra­tive!

That was the call last night from En­er­gy Min­is­ter Stu­art Young, the Lead­ers in Ser­vice's (LIS) can­di­date for chair­man in PNM's in­ter­nal elec­tions.

Vot­ing be­gins to­mor­row (Sat) and con­tin­ues on Sun­day and De­cem­ber 4.

Young was among speak­ers at LIS' meet­ing in Diego Mar­tin lead­ing up to Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley's fea­ture ad­dress. The venue was filled with Min­is­ters, MPs, sup­port­ers, cer­tain DM West "back­ers" and oth­ers.

Young, who said the PNM was on the eve of some­thing crit­i­cal for par­ty and coun­try, added, "We have a day left and must make the right choic­es ... you see those peo­ple who come for­ward and talk about 'ser­vice, ser­vice, ser­vice' - tell them to rock so!"

Young said he was among those who worked with Row­ley on the Email­gate mat­ter.

"But who was around from 2010 to help re­build the par­ty? I know a few who weren't there ... one of them put her­self for­ward, she sud­den­ly re­mem­ber she had a par­ty card and say 'I'm a mem­ber and I can lead the par­ty'. But we say, rock so!

"As we en­ter elec­tions, we must re­mem­ber who was with us in times of ad­ver­si­ty, and helped Dr Row­ley re­build. Send them a strong mes­sage - he's the one we chose!"

In­di­rect­ly ref­er­enc­ing Wednes­day's failed court case by lead­er­ship can­di­date Karen Nunez-Tesheira, he slammed those who'd gone to court and said PNM's gen­er­al coun­cil didn't tell them X and Y, or they didn't know what hap­pened in the coun­cil.

"...Be­cause you're not a mem­ber! You're not around us! How many gen­er­al coun­cils you re­al­ly went to? How you could jump on a UNC nar­ra­tive and ques­tion the Bal­isi­er House head­quar­ters of the same PNM you want to lead? So, rock so!"

He said the court had stat­ed there was no ev­i­dence of bad faith and no need to wor­ry about PNM's elec­tion, as the po­lice will be present, as will be Pan­nel Kerr Fos­ter and an ex­cel­lent su­per­vi­so­ry team.

Young re­peat­ed ques­tions he'd raised about whether in 2009 when Cli­co was about to col­lapse, if "... Madame Rush-to-Court, who wasn't with us in 2010 but was Fi­nance Min­is­ter in 2009, what she did a few days be­fore the whole (Cli­co) thing be­came pub­lic?

"Did you or any fam­i­ly mem­ber, just be­fore the gov­ern­ment in­ter­vened, go qui­et­ly and with­draw mon­ey from the whole Cli­co em­pire? And you think you have the in­tegri­ty to lead our great par­ty?! Rock so!"

Young said the then-gov­ern­ment propped Cli­co up but the Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar gov­ern­ment did noth­ing to re­cov­er the mon­ey and no se­cu­ri­ty was tak­en for the bil­lions of tax­pay­ers' funds in­volved.

He said when the Row­ley ad­min­is­tra­tion en­tered, an­oth­er "so-called PN­Mite," who in the Sun­day Guardian crit­i­cis­ing the PNM, was ad­vis­ing Cli­co share­hold­ers how to keep the gov­ern­ment out of the is­sue.

"So, when you have these so-called PN­Mites pre­tend­ing they're PNM, all yuh do them a favour and tell them to rock so!" he added.

Young, who said he "sleeps in red," al­so pelt­ed words at UNC about the PNM's en­er­gy achieve­ments, in­clud­ing $11B earn­ings.

"So, PNM fam­i­ly, you have to choose the right lead­er­ship..."

Fos­ter: I said the psalms and we beat them in court

Gen­er­al sec­re­tary un­op­posed Fos­ter Cum­mings said the PNM was alive and well.

"... Nev­er again Kam­la! Nev­er again!"

Cum­mings, re­call­ing how he re­ceived the doc­u­ments for the re­cent court case, said he re­cit­ed the psalms. "Then I called the leader, we hired some good lawyers, went to court and put a sound cut­tail on them!"

He said some vy­ing for PNM of­fice were sound­ing like the UNC.

"... A sim­i­lar nar­ra­tive...I can't stom­ach that those who want to lead the PNM sound­ing just like they come from the bo­som of the UNC!

"They want to lead the PNM, we re­build­ing for fu­ture gen­er­a­tions, yet you cussing the par­ty - mem­bers, demon­strate to them how you feel about Bal­isi­er House and vote for LIS!"

Can­di­date for vice chair­man Dr Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly re­lat­ed how she - a Sev­enth Day Ad­ven­tist and moth­er of three - en­tered pol­i­tics in 2014 and went from "the fry­ing pan" in Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment " in­to the fire" in Ed­u­ca­tion.


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