Duke plans day of resistance

“By any legal means necessary, get them out of office, get them out,” Duke said to the media during an afternoon picket yesterday after he walked from the Eric Williams Financial Complex to join Communication Workers Union (CWU) members protesting in front of TSTT’s Head Office at Independence Square, Port-of-Spain.

“Look at the kind of murders in the country, in broad daylight, and they are not doing anything,” Duke said. “They are a bunch of jokers, all they are doing is playing golf in long sleeves.” He said he will lead a massive protest with more than 80,000 workers from 8 am on his planned day of resistance. He also called on Finance Minister Colm Imbert to settle all outstanding monies owed to public servants by August 2017.

“We are trying to settle outstanding negotiations and start the current ones by August,” he said. “We are trying to bring to a close 2011 to 2013, start and bring to a close 2014 to 2016, and start 2017 all before August.” Duke said, “We are prepared to fight. It is an all out war and we really want the PNM Government removed from office because they are not doing a good job on crime, they are not doing a good job on controlling the prices of goods on the market, they are not doing a good job at all at protecting citizens from any single thing, not one single thing.” He added, “Now they are threatening to remove the subsidy on electricity, on water, on buses. How much could we take? We want them out, we want them to resign and leave.”