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...Jack: Kublalsingh eating hearty meals at nights
By Carolyn Kissoon carolyn.kissoon@trinidadexpress.com
Story Created: Nov 26, 2012 at 10:58 PM ECT
Story Updated: Nov 26, 2012 at 11:02 PM ECT
NATIONAL Security Minister Jack Warner has described visitors to the protest camp of hunger striker Dr Wayne Kublalsingh as drama queens with a political agenda.
Warner also believes that Kublalsingh is being dishonest about being on a hunger strike, claiming he was eating hearty meals at night at secret locations.
Speaking at the United National Congress' (UNC) Monday night forum at the Debe High School last night, Warner said every one of the persons involved in Kublalsingh's protest outside the Office of the Prime Minister in Port of Spain had a political wound and was seeking revenge on Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar.
"Every single one of them has an axe to grind against Kamla. Their presence, kissing Kublalsingh's hand and patting his forehead, has nothing to do with the highway. They see him as a stepping stone for their own political agendas and aspirations. Not one of them is fasting with him," he said.
Warner also accused Kublalsingh of using blackmail to have his way.
"And while it is all right to try and lobby support for your views, blackmail is wrong. You cannot threaten to kill yourself if you do not have your way. It is undemocratic and selfish. It is criminal," he said.
Warner said whatever happens to Kublalsingh would be his own doing and "the clowns around him who would be the ones to blame".
He said it was wrong to disenfranchise 300,000 persons just to satisfy the selfishness of a handful.
Warner also said "my advice is that when he (Kublalsingh) goes to his secret homes in Maraval and Vistabella he has a hearty meal. I am even advised that last week he was lying on the back seat of his vehicle eating a doubles. And it was not even a Debe doubles. What does Kublalsingh want? And therefore I ask you, what is the government to do?"
mitsu_chick941 wrote:If so much of them believe in his cause, why aren't the striking with him?
All the people he standing up for, where are they?
Why aren't they striking too?
crazybalhead wrote:Where is this DEBE you speak of???
src1983 wrote:A question....
Has Kubalsingh factored the cost of the tremination of the OAS contract in his "Technical review"?
mitsu_chick941 wrote:If so much of them believe in his cause, why aren't the striking with him?
All the people he standing up for, where are they?
Why aren't they striking too?
tr1ad wrote:mitsu_chick941 wrote:If so much of them believe in his cause, why aren't the striking with him?
All the people he standing up for, where are they?
Why aren't they striking too?
for your edification
not all residents of the mon desir / debe settlement are young and able, it is a very close knit community with a lot of older folk
besides in what he believes in, kublalsingh has vowed to represent them, and to an extent the HRRM
that is why he is there alone
pugboy wrote:most people who bumping their mouths have never driven between penal to siparia
the issue people should be investigating is
the contract links between a senior minister's sons, a dj renter and the foreign contractors.......
TRAE wrote:
wonder if this real
S_2NR wrote:Never been to debe,penal or wherever else exists down there but I think the highway is a good idea.
ABA Trading LTD wrote:
stolen from facebook lol
1UZFE wrote:S_2NR wrote:Never been to debe,penal or wherever else exists down there but I think the highway is a good idea.
ABA Trading LTD wrote:
stolen from facebook lol
ABA Trading LTD wrote:
stolen from facebook lol
The Hindu : Today's Paper / INTERNATIONAL : Trinidad’s new show stopper is Indian origin environmentalist on hunger strike
Today's Paper» INTERNATIONAL
November 26, 2012
Foreign Desk
Wayne Kublalsingh on strike outside the Prime Minister's office in St Clair, Port-of-Spain.—Photo: Special Arrangement
It is a place better known for its carnivals than its protests. But an Indian-origin environmentalist, who is on a determined hunger strike to save a mangrove from destruction, has highlighted a side of Trinidad other than its famous limin’.
Dr. Wayne Kublalsingh, a well-known academic, has been sitting in front of Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissesar’s office in Port of Spain, protesting that a planned section of a highway will harm a 56-sq km mangrove known for its rich biodiversity.
The 53-year-old Dr. Kublalsingh has lost 19 kg since he began the hunger strike 10 days ago. Doctors say his kidneys and heart are beginning to fail. Last Friday, he was taken to hospital, and administered fluids intravenously.
Still, he refuses to call off his strike until Ms. Bissessaar agrees to discuss the highway and agrees to an independent technical review. According to him, the $7.2-billion Point Fortin Highway project will destroy the Oropouche Lagoon mangrove, known for its rare butterflies and birds.
Like Dr. Kublalsingh, who traces his roots to Uttar Pradesh, Ms. Bissesar is also part of Trinidad and Tobago’s Indian-origin community that makes up 41 per cent of the Caribbean island’s 1.3 million population. She is firm that the government has to go ahead with the project in public interest.
The opposition People’s National Movement (PNM) has come out in support of Dr. Kublalsingh with Pearce Robinson, the head of its online networking branch, PNM Abroad, describing it as a “penance”. But there is mixed reaction in Trinidad to the stand-off.
Columnist Marlon Miller, writing forTrinidad Express, said “we need people like Dr. Wayne to keep the powers-that-be in check”.
However, Dr. Kublalsingh got 70 per cent negative responses in an online poll conducted byTrinidad Guardian. His expletive-filled outburst at the Health Minister, who met him and offered him an ambulance, did not win him friends.
The National Infrastructure Development Company Limited, in charge of the project, says the highway would spur development, apart from easing traffic congestion
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...Jack: Kublalsingh eating hearty meals at nights
By Carolyn Kissoon carolyn.kissoon@trinidadexpress.com
Story Created: Nov 26, 2012 at 10:58 PM ECT
Story Updated: Nov 26, 2012 at 11:02 PM ECT
NATIONAL Security Minister Jack Warner has described visitors to the protest camp of hunger striker Dr Wayne Kublalsingh as drama queens with a political agenda.
Warner also believes that Kublalsingh is being dishonest about being on a hunger strike, claiming he was eating hearty meals at night at secret locations.
Speaking at the United National Congress' (UNC) Monday night forum at the Debe High School last night, Warner said every one of the persons involved in Kublalsingh's protest outside the Office of the Prime Minister in Port of Spain had a political wound and was seeking revenge on Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar.
"Every single one of them has an axe to grind against Kamla. Their presence, kissing Kublalsingh's hand and patting his forehead, has nothing to do with the highway. They see him as a stepping stone for their own political agendas and aspirations. Not one of them is fasting with him," he said.
Warner also accused Kublalsingh of using blackmail to have his way.
"And while it is all right to try and lobby support for your views, blackmail is wrong. You cannot threaten to kill yourself if you do not have your way. It is undemocratic and selfish. It is criminal," he said.
Warner said whatever happens to Kublalsingh would be his own doing and "the clowns around him who would be the ones to blame".
He said it was wrong to disenfranchise 300,000 persons just to satisfy the selfishness of a handful.
Warner also said "my advice is that when he (Kublalsingh) goes to his secret homes in Maraval and Vistabella he has a hearty meal. I am even advised that last week he was lying on the back seat of his vehicle eating a doubles. And it was not even a Debe doubles. What does Kublalsingh want? And therefore I ask you, what is the government to do?"
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