Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves is embracing his age as he prepares to lead his Unity Labour Party in its bid to secure an unprecedented sixth consecutive five-year term in office.
“They say that Ralph is old. Of course, I’m old. I’m the oldest man in Parliament,” Gonsalves, who turns 78 in August, the rally in Arnos Vale on April 7 to celebrate his party’s 23rd anniversary in office.
“But I the man with the youngest head. … because God make me a rebel. And the older I get, the more rebellious I am, which always meaning new ideas, questioning things over and over again,” the prime minister said.
“I am using the hackneyed expression about thinking outside of the box. We in the Unity Labour Party have always been very creative in whatever we do, and we have brains in our heads, and we study and we write,” the self-styled “World Boss” said at the event which featured Jamaican artistes Marcia Griffiths and Teejay — The Uptop Boss
“After all the problems in 2020 and 2021, I sit down and write this book. Since 2010, this is the 12th book that I have written. And in this book, I lay out the plan. I lay out the plan, where we going follow for St. Vincent and Grenadines,” Gonsalves said.
“Universities are now studying this book, studying this plan,” he further said without elaborating, adding, “And you see it’s happening and rolling out day by day, sweet Jesus.”
The prime minister said there is only “emptiness” from the other side.
“You know that Friday too cold to be prime minister,” he said of Opposition Leader, Godwin Friday, whom he accused of trying to copy his dance moves.
“He cold, aloof from people. He tried to see if he could imitate the Comrade Skank and so on and so on. Well, I guess imitation is the best form of flattery…
“You get nothing from them on which you can say this is how they’re going to proceed except the nonsense about selling passports and breaking relations with the Republic of China.”
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