UNC not serious about VSEP debate

THE EDITOR: Nothing better illustrates the dangerous, incitful politics that the UNC is playing with the Caroni VSEP issue than the motion moved by Mrs Kamla Persad-Bissessar on the CEPEP issue.

If the UNC was really serious in having the VSEP issue debated, it would have tabled a motion on the Order Paper for a full-scale debate, and not this motion for urgent, specific etc and then walk out. So they walked out; is that it on the VSEP issue? Are they now going to parade up and down the sugar belt where they are secure with meetings sniping at the government, with no full-scale debate on the issue recorded in the Hansard for future research and record? I have no doubt that if they were serious, the government would accommodate their request for a two-day debate, not waiting for such a debate to take place only on Private Members’ Day. But the UNC is fully aware that such a debate would expose them as having nothing of substance to say.

HUBERT MARCANO
Barataria