Panday: No oil boom, only race coming

OPPOSITION LEADER Basdeo Panday claimed Prime Minister Patrick Manning will persecute the Indo-Trinidadian community similar to the Jews of Nazi Germany when the oil boom predicted by his government fails to materialise.

Addressing a UNC public forum in San Juan on Monday, Panday alleged that Government had already overspent the national budget by $2 billion and was hoping to “fill that hole with an oil boom that is coming”. “No oil boom is coming because Iraq’s oil, the control of Iraqi oil will be used as a big stick on OPEC’s back to prevent them from raising the price of oil,” he predicted. The UNC leader further prophesised that Prime Minister Patrick Manning will increase taxes to fill “the hole” but that too would fail. “When the economy starts to sink and they (PNM) begin to get into debt, they are going to spread more race,” he warned.

Panday declared: “When the German economy was in trouble, Hitler went and told the Germans, the Jews are the cause. They ended up murdering six billion Jews but they set the stage for their own demise, of the German people. They committed their own suicide. “Manning is prepared to do that. He is going to seek out one section of the economy and he’s going to say is them to blame. If you allow Manning to fool you as Hitler fooled the German people, then your fate will be exactly like the German people. You shall become the victims of war.”