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UML wrote:
Yet the PNM claim to love their country
UML wrote:Racket Rail Financing Plan
Newsday apologises to Dr Rowley
Sunday, September 6 2015
We refer to the lead Article published in our Sunday August 30 edition under the headline “Secrets and Lies”, which contained certain allegations against the Leader of the People’s National Movement, Dr Keith Rowley .
The basis of the article was a letter by Mr Peter Taylor, who confirmed to Newsday that he was the author of the letter. We were advised and it was subsequently verified by the Minister of National Security (who was copied on letter) that he had referred the letter to the police for investigation .
It was our opinion at the time, that the matter contained information which was of public interest. We tried albeit unsuccessfully to contact Dr Rowley to ascertain his comments on the contents of Mr Taylor’s letter and the actions of the Minister on his behalf. In the absence of same, we published the article and in the course of so doing, repeated certain allegations made in Mr .
Taylor’s letter .
Subsequent to the publication of the article, Dr Rowley denied the allegations in the letter, the PNM issued a statement and a media briefing was held by the Public Relations Officer of the PNM to clarify, completely and categorically deny and address the matters raised in Mr Taylor’s letter and in our Article. These events and statements were prominently reported on in the Newsday. Furthermore, on September 1, 2015, Mr Taylor issued a statement in the public domain wherein he explained his intention and or clarified matters in relation to the statements made in the Letter and the Newsday Article .
In light of the foregoing and in retrospect, Newsday accepts that the contents of the article as expressed and or implied would have resulted in hurt, embarrassment and distress to Dr Rowley and his family. As a consequence, Newsday, its Editor in Chief and Ms Nalinee Seelal deeply regret and sincerely and unreservedly apologise to Dr Rowley and his family for any hurt, distress, embarrassment and inconvenience that he may have suffered to his personal, professional and political capacity arising from the article .
Newsday wishes to assure its readers and Dr Rowley that it intended no malice in the publication of the Article. Furthermore, in the exercise of our duties as a responsible media house, we will continue to adhere to and strive for the highest standards of journalistic integrity and fair and balanced reporting .
http://newsday.co.tt/news/0,216621.html
Redman wrote:UML wrote:Racket Rail Financing Plan
I guess we will see in one month.
UML wrote:Racket Rail Financing Plan
Bezman wrote:What is that $6000 based off of? No one has published anything about property tax... U keep using this as your final argument.. And its flaccid.
You really think just pulling random numbers out your arss sounds sensible when discussing your property tax??
Bezman wrote:So that's the tax the unc have planned to implement as well as they have only temporarily suspended it.
And by your logic. You can build a million dollar house in a 1/2 million dollar piece of land, work offshore for 30k+ a month, drive nice vans and SUVs, have nice 70" TV, take shopping vacations all over etc and can't pay $500 a month for property tax as revenue to the govt.
And u wanna complain about hand outs.
I see where your hate come from
Your tax doesn't sound that bad.
Bezman wrote:So you invest in luxury items but will not invest in your own party property?
Weird yes.
Bezman wrote:So you built a Luxury home in a low income area? And live a luxury lifestyle compared to your neighbors??
Sounds like you purchased property at a great price and built a massive high end house on it. Prob new van every 3 years.
Don't study it. You will find a way to pay it when your property tax come on board.
Hyperion wrote:UML wrote:
Yet the PNM claim to love their country
UML allyuh wicked, allyuh force them cepep and urp workers to attend the rally AND clean up after? wayzzzz
Hyperion wrote:UML wrote:
Yet the PNM claim to love their country
UML allyuh wicked, allyuh force them cepep and urp workers to attend the rally AND clean up after? wayzzzz
1UZFE wrote:Wudnt d Cepep workers be attending d pnm rally?
Habit7 wrote:UML wrote:^^^says the party member who created URP and CEPEP!Ministers change views on 'dead-end' jobs
New jockey on the tiger's back
By Anna Ramdass anna.ramdass@trinidadexpress.com
Story Created: Nov 18, 2011 at 11:56 PM ECT
Story Updated: Nov 18, 2011 at 11:56 PM ECT
Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley and former prime minister Patrick Manning have both knocked Government's "Colour me Orange" programme, saying that when the United National Congress (UNC) was in Opposition they openly criticised these very types of programmes and today they are following the very same path which they condemned.
The following are some of the comments made in the past by now Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Housing Minister Dr Roodal Moonilal and Attorney General Anand Ramlogan on Community-Based Environmental Protection and Enhancement Programme
(CEPEP) and Unemployment Relief Programme (URP) programmes.
Then Opposition MP Kamla Persad-Bissessar on May 6, 2010, at a political meeting in Couva where she slammed the former Government on crime, said:
"Manning allowed a handful of criminals to blossom and grow. The PNM nurtured these infant gangs with lucrative URP and CEPEP contracts. He called them 'community leaders' and wined them and dined them.
"He exploited their vulnerable dependency syndrome, because he wanted to ride the back of the tiger into political office. Now, he can neither dismount, nor wound this creature that he has created, for fear that this very tiger will discriminately devour even the hands of those that once fed it."
Kamla Persad-Bissessar, in her 2006/2007 budget reply, also criticised the People's National Movement (PNM) for low-level income programmes:
"The UNC government of 1995-2001 created over 85,000 well-paid, permanent jobs. By our policies we inspired job creation in the private sector. We moved the unemployment figure from almost 19 per cent in 1995 to 10 per cent by 2001. We did not use URP, CEPEP and MUST to further disempower and humiliate the jobless into a dependency syndrome.
"Mr Speaker, it is on this matter that the opposition wishes to express the highest level of condemnation of the Manning administration. The PNM has introduced a backward and archaic labour strategy of shoving the low-skilled into a dependency syndrome and therefore presiding over the inter-generational transfer of poverty and dependency.
"They should take a bow! Very few governments have destroyed their own supporters in this way."
Government Minister Dr Roodal Moonilal had issued a press release in March 2006, knocking the then PNM government for boosting employment in the CEPEP and URP programmes:
"The PNM government has taken the dependency syndrome to new heights by creating a form of white-collar DEWD or ten-days syndrome. Today, unlike in the past, even those with secondary or tertiary education are on temporary jobs, which when concluded leaves them to beg for more short-term jobs," he said.
Attorney General Anand Ramlogan, in his column in the Guardian in August 2007 entitled "A loveless thing" criticised the former PNM government on CEPEP programmes.
"Which parent dreamed of having his or her child become a CEPEP worker? Is this what the original grandfathers in PNM heartland areas expected after almost half-a-decade of PNM rule?
"Surely, the dream was that their grandchildren will be the ones driving past in air-conditioned cars on their way to work, waving to the less fortunate in our society who are forced to resort to cutting grass by the roadside to make a living!
"There is no future in CEPEP. It is a dead-end road. It is not a serious career option. It does not add value to the economy. To perpetuate this dependency syndrome is a crime against humanity and makes the PNM 'a loveless thing'."
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/Min ... 61063.html...CEPEP workforce doubled to 11,000
By —Anna Ramdass
Story Created: Jul 9, 2011 at 1:02 AM ECT
Story Updated: Jul 9, 2011 at 1:02 AM ECT
Cabinet took a decision to almost double the Community-based Environmental Protection and Enhancement Programme (CEPEP) workforce to satisfy the need for labour in various areas that were unrepresented, Government Minister Dr Roodal Moonilal said yesterday.
Following a tour of the Government Campus Plaza and Tower D at the Waterfront, Port of Spain, Moonilal confirmed that the number of CEPEP workers increased from 6,000 to 11,000 since the People's Partnership government came into power.
"Between May 2010 to May 2011 the employment level in the CEPEP increased from approximately 6,000 to 11,000. There was an increase pursuant to a Cabinet decision, an increase in the number of contractors to satisfy the need of various geographical areas that were unrepresented," said Moonilal.
He said CEPEP was restructured because there were contractors in the programme for eight years.
He said in this restructuring exercise 150 workers were affected.
However, Moonilal said steps were being taken to ensure no one was jobless.
CEPEP established an employment bureau at its Chaguanas headquarters, where affected people could register in order to be re-employed, he pointed out.
Moonilal added that CEPEP was mobilised and on full alert in the event of any flash flooding or natural disasters caused by the inclement weather expected this weekend.
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/business ... 55549.html
#noshame
rfari wrote:Nah man zr. Is only play u does be playing ting in front dem PNM ppl?
Taken from a blog called Trinileaks. This is the horror people will endure if you let Keith Rowley in...
Citizens of Trinidad & Tobago are in for some very rough times if Dr Keith Rowley is elected. See our latest blog updates for insight on what Dr Rowley plans to do if he delivers the next budget...
04 September 2015, Port of Spain: EDUCATION, social programmes and healthcare will be the top casualties if the Opposition PNM wins the 2015 general election, according to a confidential financial summary of a draft budget submitted “by request” to Opposition Leader, Dr Keith Rowley.
According to the document education spending is marked for cuts of up to 25 percent, with a number of school construction projects in rural areas to be indefinitely delayed.
The secondary schools laptop programme will now have a maximum distribution of 500 per year, for only needy families who will have to undergo a means test to qualify.
The People’s Partnership plan for the tablet device programme for Standard 5 students and the laptop programme for first year University students will also be discontinued.
Education faces another blow as the draft document has recommendations the Government Assisted Tertiary Education (GATE) programme to be cut by more than 50 percent from $650 million to $300 million, with students of Technical/Vocational programmes no longer being supported.
Further, students of the University of the West Indies and University of Trinidad & Tobago face the possibility of having to satisfy a means test to qualify for GATE and the final list “must be approved by a new Cabinet GATE Committee”.
The Opposition PNM’s draft budget also intends to cut spending on both URP and CEPEP down from $1.1 billion to $500 million, and plans will be implemented to zone the programmes only to at-risk communities in the East/West corridor. Final approvals for disbursements will also be subject to a new “Cabinet Social Spending Committee”.
The social spending section of the draft budget, however, warns of the spike in crime which could result, and asks Dr Rowley to “please give careful reconsideration to this measure as the impact has the potential to create a national crime and social problem”.
Under social spending, the Opposition PNM also has plans to return to a ‘grant system’ for old age pensions, with “final approvals requiring Cabinet approval with support from respective MPs”. This appears to indicate that the pension grants will only be provided to PNM held constituencies.
Healthcare could also take a hit if the Opposition PNM wins the general election, with plans to discontinue the Arima and Point Fortin Hospitals construction programme, and rescind extended opening hours.
While the document bears no resemblance to the party’s manifesto, and there was no mention of a reduction in Value Added Tax (VAT) by the promised 2.5 percent, a section of the draft budget calculates revenue of $5 billion “with the zero-rating on 7000 food items being removed”. This suggests that VAT will be restored on the 7000 food items which the People’s Partnership Government zero-rated two years ago.
Under the heading “social conditions” the draft budget cautions Dr Rowley that “very serious social impact will be felt by middle income families at least until 2018, but which time it is hoped that oil and gas prices will normalise at higher levels.”
A paragraph in this section states: “The intention to partially remove the gas subsidy on super liquid fuels could result in savings to the State of $1 billion, however, as cautioned in other sections, the social cost and recessionary fallouts could create even greater problems which the State ultimately will have to try to manage.”
The section adds: “As it will be the first year of the administration, social fallout can be managed with a firm hand and if required, by engaging the National Security Agencies to control any unexpected social issues.”
This appears to suggest that Dr Rowley’s plan is to manage the nation’s affairs based mostly on oil and gas revenues as the draft budget makes no mention of investments to ramp up economic diversification, increase foreign direct investment, or full delivery of procurement legislation.
The Opposition PNM’s draft budget also makes no mention of the public, private partnership (PPP) model adopted by the People’s Partnership Government.
In the concluding comments, the Opposition PNM’s draft budget states: “While we have stayed in line with your categorical position that spending must be cut, it is important to caution that the upshot of these cuts could create costs to the economy far exceeding cuts. The social cost especially could create grave future problems for Trinidad & Tobago, especially in the context of poverty, human development and the middle-class.”
A paragraph in this section also cautioned Dr Rowley: “While this draft of your budget has focused on deflating Government spending, there must be a focus on revenue generation, particularly in the context of the UNC-led Government having almost doubled Government revenues in its 5-year term.”
Trinileaks attempted to contact usually forthcoming PNM insiders, but could not get beyond the question: “That’s a confidential document, how did you get that?”
http://trinileaks.blog.com/2015/09/06/m ... et-budget/
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