The statement about a time for healing by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bisessar in the House of Representatives last Friday captured the mood of the moment that the country needs to feel at this time of mourning.ANR Robinson was someone whom she looked up to just as she has other persons in public life she has also named as her political mentors.Her statement was timely as much as it was appropriate.
If there is anyone who would have felt the pain of the presidential transfer of power at a time of constitutional vulnerability on Christmas Eve 2001, it was she as the Attorney General in the Cabinet of Basdeo Panday. She has clearly healed, while others have not.In politics, there are moments when it is necessary to rise above the partisan fray of the daily battle for dominance on the battlefield of communication and competition.
Last Friday, Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar rose to the occasion in a manner, and with a mindset, similar to the way in which she handled the passing of Nelson Mandela. Her ability to capture the moment when it was appropriate to stand as someone who comes across as a uniter and not as a divider perhaps comes from her own deeply-held belief in coalition methodologies as opposed to single-party dominance.
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