I had the utter misfortune of viewing the Parliament Channel as the odious, back from the dead, Fitzgerald Hinds rose to his feet in a desperate bid to defend his faction of the PNM. I listened for as long as I could, at this man attempt to revisit the distant past to talk about Inncogen and the misdeeds of the government of 1995-2001. I listened further to him give an entire, empty contribution amounting to nothing but frail attempts to defend his indefensible faction of the PNM. He even showed the characteristic nauseating chauvinism of the PNM when he became so bruised by the Minister of Energy's body beating on the Opposition, that he was practically in tears, acting as if somebody hit him with a ball in a game of skooch and he needed to get back at them. He also oozed a sanctimonious odiousness in sucking up to Mr Dookeran, as if the Minister of Finance even notices Hinds on an intelligence radar.
With the Leader of the Opposition, Dr Keith Rowley, already fighting to hold on to his leadership against the Patrick Manning onslaught, the PNM would do well to rid the Upper House of the likes of land pirate Hinds and get some competent, bright and sophisticated people who can actually help the PNM mend the massive fracture that has decimated it. In this entire debate, the PNM has offered nothing but misinformation without any connection to fact. The PNM embarrassed our country in government, and now they are doing it in Opposition, both PNMs! Reminds us of how happy we should still be to see the backs of them permanently. Thank goodness for our Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, and Ministers like Dookeran and Seepersad-Bachan!
Jairam Bhola
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