Valley: Spread the PNM gospel in Central Trinidad

Trade Minister Ken Valley told supporters that they  must do all in their power to spread the gospel of the PNM  in Central Trinidad. And taking a swipe at MP Chandresh  Sharma, who refused to leave the Parliament after being suspended by the House Speaker Barry Sinanan, Valley recalled the time when he was suspended. He said he walked, just as Dr Keith Rowley did and said he could not understand why Sharma didn’t. “He did wrong and all we asked him to do was  apologise and move forward but he refused,” Valley added. “He did not apologise because of his leader Panday,  who supported him in his stupidness but I could not have done that under my leader,” he said.

Valley was speaking at the 2nd annual anniversary function of the PNM’s Central Regional Office, located in Chaguanas. Valley also said the United National Congress must take full blame for the escalating rate of crime in the country, when they were in Government from 1996 to 2001. “The fact is  they shelved all the social programmes that the PNM had put in place and further that they stole from the Treasury and because of that they set the stage for what is happening negatively in Trinidad and Tobago,” he said.

Valley said that he was born in Mc Bean, Couva, and studied with Indian students like Ramnarine Ramdass and Krishna Lackhan, a university professor. He said in those days they knew nothing about racial differences, “because we all knew that we came from somewhere.” “We made here our home and we lived like Trinidadians and you will never see me wearing a Dashiki and a Dhoti as I love this country and urge all of you to love here also.” He congratulated  the Central Regional Office for organising the event.