Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar
The 24 UNC Candidates/constituencies:
Continue reading ‘UNC 24 candidates: No Pandays’
Monthly Archive for April, 2010
Judges in the house?
We have no problem with former judges deciding to join political parties, and to run as candidates for these parties. The difference is that a former judge is a citizen like the rest of us. We cannot yet refer to Judge Volney as a “former judge” in this debate. He was still on the Bench when he made his decision, and he clearly must have been in some sort of consultation with the UNC even as he enjoyed the status of a High Court Judge.
Continue reading ‘Kamla must think carefully on Volney’
By Dr. Selwyn R. Cudjoe
April 30, 2010
It couldn’t have come at worse time. You are down in the polls. You have a reputation of having raging tantrums, being dour and bereft of the common touch. Although you are a good Chancellor of the Exchequer you are seen as the ultimate bureaucrat. Your political advisors say that you have to get out more; meet the common man and woman; exude more warmth; smile a lot with them which will make the electorate feel closer to you.
Continue reading ‘Gordon Brown’s Disaster’
Herbert Volney
PM: Has the UNC interfered with the independence of the Judiciary?
A storm has erupted in the election campaign over the resignation of a judge and magistrate to run as candidates for the United National Congress (UNC).
Continue reading ‘Justice Herbert Volney: A UNC Candidate’
Mrs. Penelope Beckles
April 29, 2010
Oskie, my perennial nemesis, was mad like hell. He say he ain’t voting for PNM no matter if they kill him so I had to ask him the inevitable question:
“Boy, why so mad at the PNM? Wha’ dey do yo so’?”
“Do me? Is what dey do you?”
Continue reading ‘“Too Old to Party”’
NJAC leader Makandal Daaga
Continue reading ‘‘Dashiki’ Silence Disappointing’
PNM Patrick Manning vs UNC Kamla Persad-Bissessar
By Cecily Asson and Invera Arjoon
Wednesday, April 28 2010
WHILE UNC political leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar last night said she is willing to take part in a live national debate with Prime Minister Patrick Manning in the run up to the May 24 general election, Manning, who is the PNM’s political leader, was reluctant to participate.
Continue reading ‘Prime Minister Manning Says No Debate’
Opposition Parties Sign Unity Pact at Fyzabad Meeting
April 27, 2010
All the symbols were there: they met at Fyzabad near the spot on which Charlie King was killed in the name of the people and they raised their hands in unity as they proclaimed a new partnership. Makandal Dagga, Errol McLeod and Ashworth Jack were necessarily somber. Winston Dookeran sought to infuse a philosophical dimension into the proceedings even though he attributed President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s words from his Inaugural Address (“The only thing you have to fear is fear itself”) to Martin Luther King even as Kamla Persad Bissessar aimed to invest a solemnity to the occasion by delivering her speech in tightly clinched phrases. It was almost as though being herself and using her normally mellifluous cadences would have betrayed a peasant sensibility that they may have thought was inappropriate for the occasion.
Continue reading ‘A People’s Partnership’
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