Political Leader of the Congress of the People (COP), Winston Dookeran, on Tuesday appealed to citizens to embrace his party and change the country's politics, which he said is anchored in corruption and race. He said politicians continue to use ethnicity as a political commodity. Dookeran was speaking at a COP meeting in St. James. The former governor of the Central Bank also slammed Prime Minister Patrick Manning, accusing him of using his office to raise money for the PNM.
"The Prime Minister is prostituting the office of the Prime Minister by using it for party funding in the name of the State," Dookeran said.
He added that many businessmen in Trinidad and Tobago go to Manning's breakfast meetings because they fear that if they don't they would face "the worse kind of victimisation".
Dookeran's take on Panday drew hearty laughter from his audience. "Mr Panday, I was told, produces one Neemakaram each year, but this year he produced triplets," he said in reference to Jack Warner, Ramesh L. Maharaj and Winston "Gypsy" Peters.
He urged supporters to shun divisive politics and racial polarization and adopt his brand. "We stand today against all those things because we want to get our country right, we want to get our politics right," he said.
Dookeran said now is the time to end the denial and wake up to the reality that is facing the nation - escalating crime, a failing economy and the pauperizing of citizens. He said the state of the nation is so such poor shape because of the failed policies of the governing People's National Movement (PNM).
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