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Sunday, July 13, 2025

Handing over hard-earned $$ to bandits

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So many things are hap­pen­ing in this coun­try to­day, and rapid­ly, that it makes it ex­treme­ly dif­fi­cult to write on any sin­gle top­ic at the ex­pense of oth­ers which are equal­ly thought-pro­vok­ing and which have se­ri­ous im­pli­ca­tions for us.At first I want­ed to deal with Dr Row­ley and oth­er key PNM play­ers' ad­mo­ni­tion that non-PN­Mites should not get in­to the par­ty's busi­ness re the PNM's first ever one-man-one-vote in­ter­nal elec­tions set for May 18.

I find it rather strange that the lead­ers of the par­ty should tell us not to med­dle, when the PNM has been com­ing to the elec­torate every five years since the first gen­er­al elec­tion took place in 1956, and they have gov­erned T&T non-stop un­til they lost of­fice to the Na­tion­al Al­liance for Re­con­struc­tion in 1986.

All the par­ties which are of­fer­ing them­selves to rule T&T at some time or the oth­er must of ne­ces­si­ty come un­der close scruti­ny by the vot­ers, and as far as I know the PNM is con­test­ing the next gen­er­al elec­tion, con­sti­tu­tion­al­ly due in 2015.

In fact as far as the PNM is con­cerned the par­ty has al­ready won next year's poll, based on the ut­ter­ances of the par­ty's spokesper­sons as a re­sult of suc­cess­es in oth­er na­tion­al elec­tions last year. Eh?

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


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