February 9th, 2010.

Prime Minister Patrick Manning said last night he had heard that if he visited Laventille again, as he had done yesterday, an attempt would be made on his life.

Manning declared, however, ’Nobody will run me.’

Manning made the comment during a People’s National Movement (PNM) public meeting at the Witco Desperadoes Steel Orchestra panyard on Laventille Hill last night, during an address to residents and party supporters.

’A lot of people had it to say, you know, that when I come to Laventille is thunder and they go try to kill me,’ Manning said.

As he did so, well-known Laventille resident, Christine ’Twiggy’ Levia, shouted: ’No way! Who doing that!’

’I don’t know what passing through their head, but I know what passing through mine. I know, I know, that with all the difficulties that they have, the people of Laventille know that they have a Government who cares about them,’ Manning said to loud applause.

Amidst a heavy security presence around the panyard, Manning also said ’that the confidence that you all have placed in the Government of the day has not been misplaced’.

’Therefore, I am free to come to Laventille. Nobody will run me and I know that I will be received, my dear friends, on every occasion as warmly as I was received this afternoon,’ Manning said.

This is not the first time Manning has spoken of a plot to kill him.

He had told another PNM meeting last July that there was a plot to assassinate him in 2008 and acting Police Commissioner James Philbert appointed Deputy Police Commissioner Raymond Craig, the head of Special Branch, to investigate the matter.


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