To all those who are bent on promoting the Prime Minister as this very strong and decisive person, I must say to you all the goodly Prime Minister has once again proven you wrong.If one is to go by the reports of the former Senate President Timothy Hamel-Smith that it was Ganga Singh, and not the Prime Minister who informed him that he was no longer required to perform the function of Senate President, how could this be the action of someone who is strong and decisive?
To me this is a perfect example of weakness. Here is a man who served you for almost five years in this position and the Prime Minister does not even have the courtesy to meet with him face to face to inform him that he is surplus to requirement.
In my humble opinion, the PM treated the former Senate President, a man who has acted several times, up to a couple weeks ago, as President, with gross disrespect. By having Minister Singh, a person who Mr Hamel-Smith presides over in the Upper House, break this news to him, I can understand why the gentleman was in shock.
Further to this, one would have expected that if Mr Hamel-Smith was removed then the automatic choice to now fill this position would have been the man who had acted in this position for some time now. That is Mr James Lambert.
Is the Prime Minister saying to Mr Lambert that he is good enough to act but not good to be confirmed as the Senate President? Mr Lambert as a trade union leader must know that many cases of this nature (employers having employees acted in positions and when vacancies occur they are sidelined) have gone to the Industrial Court and in most cases the employee comes out smelling like the rose, yet Mr Lambert accepts this treatment from the Prime Minister.
The fact that the Prime Minister, over the years of her tenure, only takes affirmative action when as we say in T&T "water more than flour" says to me and any right thinking person that she's a perfect example of how not to be strong and decisive.
A Pierre,
Marabella