I find that it is becoming more and more challenging to be associated with some of the decisions of the People's Partnership.Life Sport ought not to have happened, and at some point the Cabinet is going to have to say who knew what and when.That $34 million paid was outside of the authority of the line Minister and the permanent secretary, so who authorised that payment?No one has ever been held accountable for the $6.5 million paid to Junior Sammy to move the fire truck 30 feet.
The Minister of Health's response as to his failure to correct the unacceptable conditions in the Port-of-Spain General Hospital to me reeked of incompetence and arrogance.The anti-democratic runoff proposal and the Government's insistence to push it through despite calls for public consolation from all quarters.
The announcement that two former prime ministers, both with serious allegations hanging over their heads and both with serious questions still to answer regarding alleged abuses while they were in office, that they were to receive the nation's highest awards, was the last straw.I supported a lot of the good governance and deliverables of this government, but this is not governance. This is naked, agenda-driven unacceptably cheap politics.
I am rethinking my political position.
Phillip Edward Alexander
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