Time is running out for both People's Partnership government (PP) and People's National Movement opposition (PNM) to get their supporters back to reading from a political book which must include the same page and party line. The PP appears far more "persuasive" at encouraging malcontents to just plain shut up or walk away.
Why do some of the so-called PNM party faithful in Arima feel themselves justified in holding on to a candidate that is popular in their eyes only? This is the 99th hour of the 99th day for the calling of general elections 2015. This election will unequivocally define the saying in local parlance, "all who vex lorse."
A Trini to the bone, renowned educator, Dr Carl Leroy Stewart, ex-Presentation College, ex-Howard University graduate (Phi Beta Capa) who preferred to die in his homeland, put it to me this way, "Trinidad nice, it could be paradise but sometimes some people just enjoy getting on stupid."
When Penny appeared, on occasion, in the local newspapers, appearing to allegedly be consorting with the most influential people of the PP for what now seems dubious political mileage, he gave the biggest and longest Trini style "steups" that I can recall.
There can be no "Mama one child" politics in either the PNM or the PP in 2015. The political race will be to the swiftest. The PNM so-called "Penny till we dead" supporters in Arima cannot be encouraged in conniving to trip up the rest of the party. If ex-Prime Minister Patrick Manning can bravely put the effective representation of his beloved constituents of San Fernando East first, who exactly is Penny?
The very brave choice of one-man, one-vote politics of the PNM internal elections resoundingly gave Dr Keith Christopher Rowley the mandate to head the PNM into 2015. Take note that the San Fernando people of many ethnicities will show the rest of T&T that the name of the general elections will be "Bazodee 2015." The Kallicharran family will go down in local history. PNM will continue to espouse "all ah we is one family" and as Dr Stewart said, Trinbago is still the best place to live and die.
Sometimes, for the sake of the bigger picture, friends must realistically part ways. Arima people must understand that in the PNM quest for winning in 2015, love has absolutely and positively, nothing to do with it.
Lynette Joseph,
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