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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

The vengeance of moko

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Tony Fras­er

Who put them so? What PNM goat mouth has struck the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship Gov­ern­ment dur­ing four years of be­ing in pow­er? Or maybe Kam­la is suf­fer­ing the con­se­quences of what Bas may con­sid­er her neemakharamism, dar­ing to take away from him the par­ty he built and owned in­to per­pe­tu­ity.

Jour­nal­ist Ria Taitt has cal­cu­lat­ed that 20 min­is­ters have de­part­ed in a va­ri­ety of ways over the pe­ri­od; it must sure­ly be the high­est turnover of gov­ern­ment min­is­ters ever. What per­fidy has be­night­ed this regime which promised so much and had so much po­lit­i­cal cur­ren­cy at its dis­pos­al in May 2010 when a large per­cent­age of the vot­ing pop­u­la­tion gam­bled with Jack and Kam­la to hang Man­ning's bare deuce?

I con­fess to not hav­ing any deep in­sight in­to the work­ings of cul­tur­al high sci­ence, po­lit­i­cal voodoo, neemakharamism and the vengeance of Moko.How­ev­er, I want to sug­gest a few more earth­ly, eas­i­ly ex­plain­able rea­sons that could ac­count for the dra­mat­ic loss of po­lit­i­cal ground by the PP with­in months of the pop­u­la­tion's de­cid­ing it want­ed to ex­per­i­ment with a po­lit­i­cal for­mu­la which could at least sub­due the eth­nic demons, re­duce cor­rup­tion and achieve qual­i­ty gov­er­nance.

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


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