Shouts of “Re-route! Re-route!” and “Shame on you!” greeted Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar as she left the St Clair medical centre after visiting Highway Re-Route Movement (HRM) leader Dr Wayne Kublalsingh. It was a hostile reception from a large crowd of HRM supporters gathered outside the St Clair Medical Centre. Persad-Bissessar and Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan visited Kublalsingh at 7pm.
Asked if there was likely to be any mediation, Persad-Bissessar said she “told him I did not think this was the place to have any such discussion.” She said the matter was referred to Works and Infrastructure Minister Dr Surujrattan Rambachan and the President of Nidco Dr Carson Charles and their technocrats. The meeting lasted for just over 30 minutes. “I prayed with him,” Persad-Bissessar told reporters.
The PM said she “came as a human being with concerns about his health.” Khan said Kublalsingh’s stay at the medical facility was being paid for by the Ministry of Health.