Prime Minister Patrick Manning on Monday spoke about "a war" between Government and some elements of the construction sector, and predicted that some "soldiers" may fall.Manning was speaking at a meeting in St Joseph following a walkabout in the area. He told supporters his government "is determined to carry this to a finish, because at the end of the day, it is the people who will benefit...
"See what is happening in the newspapers and you realise it is a plan to kill Manning—when I say ‘kill’ I’m not talking about....you know how they like to misunderstand—but we are not prepared to accept the established order, and we are going to fight until we change it," he declared.
"Those who wish to do right have to face the slings and arrows of those who do wrong, and if you want to achieve anything as someone striving for rectitude, you have to have endurance and determination, and must not allow yourself to be scared.
"They’re coming at me from every angle, but I fear no man," Manning said.
He added that government’s development drive is facing some construction practices and promised that his government won't tolerate it.
He pointed out, for example, that the price of a roof for the proposed Carnival centre in Port-of-Spain was $45 million less from a Far East company than it was for another company.
"So what you see happening today is a battle between Government and largely the construction sector and some elements of this.
"It is not all; there are some good people in it. Government is saying we’re not prepared to tolerate it anymore. And it is war, you know, and soldiers may fall along the way."
The prime minister noted that it took eight months to build the Prime Minister’s residential complex, while it took almost three years to build Belmont Police Station. "We are not accepting that, and we will fight until this is changed!"
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this is very commendable, this must be done to these fellas, they just can decide when it's election they could come and want to kiss our babies and shake our hands, do they know how our babies get to school, do they know how they get something to eat, do they know what the single mothers have to do to put food on the table. This type of politics must change, Why they don't go and shake the hands of those who really benefit from them being in power, if they don't know who these people are, I could remind them.
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