Manning doesn't know about about Montserrat market; defends manifesto

"They are clutching at straws" is Patrick Manning's response to a charge by UNC Chairman Jack Warner that the Trinidad and Tobago Government is using money from the Petroleum Stabilisation Fund to build a market in Montserrat.

When the Trinidad Express asked the prime minister about the allegation Manning wanted to know where the information came from: "WHERE? We are building a market in Montserrat ? Where you get that from?"

When told that it was from Warner he scoffed at it saying that Warner has no credibility.

"I don’t know where they get that from. Please. I have not responded to Mr Warner. One thing I know about him is that he is a stranger to the truth.

"By now you should know I don’t take on whatever he says and I don’t respond to whatever he says. He has absolutely no credibility."

The Express also asked manning about criticism by the People’s National Movement (PNM) manifesto is "vague and non-specific."

He disagreed. "That is not true. It is not true at all. In fact what we have done is record in our manifesto a lot of the achievements and, as you go through the manifesto, you would see what our plans are.

"It is consistent with a plan and our vision to achieve developed nation status by the year 2020. It is a super duper manifesto and we anxiously await the manifesto of those opposed to us," he told the Express.