PM urges unions to set aside ‘hatred’ as Annisette defends march

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar is en­cour­ag­ing unions to set aside their “ha­tred” and put their mem­bers first by seek­ing di­a­logue with the Gov­ern­ment.

In a Face­book post yes­ter­day, a day af­ter sev­er­al trade unions staged a march in Port-of-Spain, the Prime Min­is­ter dou­bled down on her as­sess­ment of the march, say­ing, “Fol­low­ing the spec­tac­u­lar­ly failed protest yes­ter­day, which at­tract­ed at its peak about 400 peo­ple dri­ven by po­lit­i­cal and racial ha­tred of the UNC, the gov­ern­ment en­cour­ages those unions to set aside their ha­tred and put their mem­bers first.”

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“The pop­u­la­tion has re­ject­ed their di­vi­sive rhetoric and there­fore I call on them to put aside their per­son­al in­ter­ests, bias, and ha­tred and work with the gov­ern­ment as oth­er unions are do­ing to set­tle ne­go­ti­a­tions in a re­spon­si­ble man­ner,” she added.