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Thursday, July 10, 2025

The good, bad and ugly of 2013

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With­out doubt the main na­tion­al achiev­er, at home and abroad, of 2013, is Je­hue Gor­don. His tri­umph in the 400-me­tres hur­dles at the World Cham­pi­onships was not on­ly an out­stand­ing per­for­mance by a young ath­lete loaded with dis­ci­pline, self-con­fi­dence and courage ("bel­ly") but it was al­so a first for a T&T ath­lete in the cham­pi­onships, the high­est lev­el of in­ter­na­tion­al com­pe­ti­tion out­side of the Olympic Games.

His fo­cus on his uni­ver­si­ty ed­u­ca­tion af­ter his track suc­cess, shak­ing off any temp­ta­tion to lim­it his op­tions to a ca­reer in ath­let­ics (not that such an op­tion is with­out mer­it and po­ten­tial­ly great fi­nan­cial re­wards) was ad­mirable.He and his han­dlers al­so did well to avoid be­ing suck­ered in­to a gid­dy and soul-ab­sorb­ing round of be­ing used as po­lit­i­cal bait. Such a fo­cused at­ti­tude sug­gests that here is a young man with great char­ac­ter and an ap­pre­ci­a­tion of the dis­tance and chal­lenges ahead to the ul­ti­mate fin­ish line.

George Bovell al­so dis­played quite an amount of courage to keep go­ing at a time in his ca­reer when it would be easy to re­lax on his Olympic bronze and the many oth­er medals he won in com­pe­ti­tions across the world over more than a decade in the pool.

The na­tion­al elec­torate, more pre­cise­ly, dif­fer­ing geopo­lit­i­cal parts of the whole, were the main po­lit­i­cal achiev­ers of the year. In num­bers sig­nif­i­cant to the re­quire­ments, ie, the To­ba­go elec­torate, that of Ch­agua­nas West and St Joseph in by-elec­tions, and at the na­tion­al lev­el in lo­cal gov­ern­ment con­stituen­cies, the elec­torate came out and vot­ed against poor gov­ern­ment and gov­er­nance.

http://www.guardian.co.tt/dig­i­tal/new-mem­bers


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