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| Suruj Rambachan: "We promote family life" (Guardian photo) |
Rambahcan was responding to questions from reporters about relatives of the PM, including her sister Vidwatie Newton, occasionally staying at the official residence.
Opposition Chief Whip Marlene McDonald raised the matter earlier in the qweek at a news conference, claiming that Newton used one of the Prime Minister’s official vehicles in Persad-Bissessar’s absence. Persad-Bissessar has already denied that.
Rambachan explained that while the vehicle is for the exclusive use of Persad-Bissessar as PM she could ask anyone to ride with her.
The minister remarked that it’s very interesting that the personal life of the Prime Minister is coming under such scrutiny.
And he took strong objection to a reference to a "family cabal" that the PNM member used to described the Prime Minister’s family.
Rambachan said consider the idea to be "very indecent" that someone could describe the Prime Minister’s family as a cabal. "I don’t think that anyone would like to know that his or her family is so described," Rambachan said.
“The Prime Minister, like so many of us in the Government, all of us value family life and value all members of our family. We are very close to family members and we promote family life as a whole,” the minister said.
Rambachan spoke about the value of family life and aded that it is the breakdown in family life that is causing many problems affecting the people of Trinidad & Tobago.
He added: “It is a credit to the Prime Minister, a great example to the country, that she continues to uphold the quality of family life.”
He said she grew up in an extended family “and therefore she would have cultivated certain values which are very important to her and which she has lived with all her life...Now that she is an exemplar of those values, I think the whole society will be enriched by that.”
Rambachan said Persad-Bissessar maintains her contact with her family, visiting her private Philippine home on weekends to be with her grandchildren, her son and daughter-in-law and other members of the family.
1 comment:
PNM has created a culture of feeding of the state to its followers and adherents. This attack on the Prime Minister is uncivil and vile. There is a culture "war" taking place in the country. For the PNM it seems that all is fair in this war. The Prime Minister could not stay the home of a friend, could not afford to build her own home, now can't even be associated with her own siblings as all these are corrupt acts?
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