Clevon Raphael

Both Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and Rod­ney Charles are to­day fac­ing a mon­u­men­tal po­lit­i­cal chal­lenge; how to face the up­hill task of seek­ing the re-elec­tion bid by the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship coali­tion gov­ern­ment in the 2015 gen­er­al elec­tion.That's the net ef­fect of the damn­ing loss of two gov­ern­ment min­is­ters with­in the space of the last sev­en days, both brought on by their own mis­deeds, in sep­a­rate but al­most sim­i­lar cir­cum­stances from the KPB Cab­i­net: Glenn Ra­mad­hars­ingh and Chan­dresh Shar­ma.

At least that's the per­cep­tion be­ing gen­er­at­ed by the par­ties op­posed to the PP regime, which has been char­ac­terised by a se­ries of mis­steps and oth­er un­for­tu­nate oc­ca­sions oc­ca­sioned by the ac­tions of the PP func­tionar­ies them­selves, be they min­is­ters or what have you.Es­pe­cial­ly the of­fi­cial op­po­si­tion Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment.

In case you may have missed it be­cause of the more saucy news fare thrown out by the Ramd­hars­ingh/Shar­ma com­bi­na­tion, Charles is be­ing brought back home from his cushy job as our coun­try's am­bas­sador to the Unit­ed Na­tions, to man­age the cam­paign of the PP in next year's polls, and on his shoul­ders rests the un­en­vi­able task of en­sur­ing the coali­tion's re­turn to of­fice.

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