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Address by Winston Dookeran - Arima |
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Saturday, 15 May 2010 00:00 |
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Election 2010 Media Release
2010-05-15  Well the people of Arima! What a platform you have here tonight. I know that you deserve no less and tonight you have got the best.
Let me tell you that I have come here tonight to help Dr. Keith Rowley. Dr. Keith Rowley has said that as a good sailor, an election time is not the time when you throw overboard your captain. And I read in to that that after election is when he will throw overboard his captain. But I have come to help him, because during the election I will throw overboard his captain and he will not have to do it thereafter.
My friends, Arima has been the home of the First Peoples of Trinidad and Tobago. This is where Trinidad and Tobago all started. Some time ago, in 2006, we had our First People's function here in Arima, at the Legend Hall and I want to pay tribute to the Carib queen Valentina Medina of the Santa Rosa Carib community for being the symbol of the beginning of Trinidad and Tobago.
After that the Europeans came, the Africans, the Indians came, the Chinese came, the Middle Eastern peoples came and now, in 2010, we are one people in Trinidad and Tobago. There are some who would like to keep us divided but what God has put together, no one shall divide asunder.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 20 May 2010 09:04 |
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Address by Winston Dookeran - Tunapuna |
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Friday, 14 May 2010 00:00 |
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Election 2010 Media Release
2010-05-14 Thank you, thank you so much.
I want to share with you an inside story that I heard when I was announced to be the candidate for Tunapuna. I heard that Mr Manning, in his mansion got into a frenzy and started to run all around his mansion, ducking and running all over the place. So Hazel called him and said "What is the matter?" He said "Mr Duck and Run what he intend to do? Call the prophetess." So he called the prophetess and he started to admonish her. "You told me to call this election, but you did not tell me that 'Duck and Run' will fight in Tunapuna." And then she reflected and said, "I used my powers to prevent him from fighting San Fernando East and you should be happy about that!"
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Last Updated on Thursday, 20 May 2010 09:01 |
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Address by Winston Dookeran - Arima |
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Wednesday, 12 May 2010 00:00 |
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Election 2010 Media Release
2010-05-12 My friends and my colleagues, for some time now this country has been blaming the government. For a long time, they have been quarrelling with Mr. Manning and, almost on a daily basis, they have been complaining about bad governance in Trinidad and Tobago.
I want to ask you here tonight in Arima: Let us stop blaming the government. Let us stop quarrelling about Mr. Manning; let us stop complaining about a failed government. Let us simply fire Mr. Manning on May the 24th. That is your charge, that is your responsibility, that is your honour that you have to discharge if we want to save Trinidad and Tobago and start a new page in the politics of this country, and a new hope for our children in the future.
It is up to you, the people who are here, and those who are not here, to understand where we are in our nation today - a small nation of just 1.3 million people, who have had another glorious opportunity to put things right. And Mr. Manning and his government have squandered, for yet another time, such a great opportunity.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 20 May 2010 09:00 |
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Address by Winston Dookeran - St. Augustine |
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Wednesday, 12 May 2010 00:00 |
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Election 2010 Media Release
2010-05-12 My people of St.Augustine, I have waited for this day for two and a half years now. At the last election in November 2007 I was defeated as the candidate in this constituency - the victor was Vasant Bharath. Today I stand with him hand-in-hand to convert that defeat into victory for the people of Trinidad and Tobago. It is a victory that we have been waiting on for a long time. It is a victory for our young in our society. It is a victory for those who have stood the test of idealism over the corruption in our society - not only a corruption of money but a corruption of values. The Congress of The People was founded on the principles of high ideals and the young people have kept it alive for the last two and a half years and I want to pay tribute to that idealism.
I know the day will come when the young can dream again that our nation can return to a situation where we can feel proud to be citizens of this land. Our young people will feel proud that whether we are of African, Indian, Chinese, Middle Eastern, European, or Carib heritage in Trinidad and Tobago from now on you shall be equal.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 18 May 2010 19:51 |
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