Rhon­da Krys­tal Ram­bal­ly

Af­fairs Min­is­ter Win­ston Dook­er­an, who has been away from work for sev­er­al days due to ill health, yes­ter­days ducked ques­tions from the me­dia. When he was ap­proached by re­porters af­ter a lec­ture by as­tro­physi­cist Dr Shirin Haque at his El Do­ra­do of­fice he said he would an­swer ques­tions from the me­dia when he re­turns to work to­mor­row.

"I don't want to take away from the lec­ture. You all han­dle the lec­ture and you'll talk to me when I go back to work on Mon­day," he said. Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ter Dr Su­ru­jrat­tan Ram­bachan has been act­ing in Dook­er­an's po­si­tion and is ex­pect­ed to re­port on the speech by Therese Bap­tiste-Cor­nelis, Am­bas­sador to the Unit­ed Na­tions in Gene­va, Switzer­land, which gen­er­at­ed con­tro­ver­sy af­ter it was post­ed on sev­er­al so­cial net­work­ing sites.

Dook­er­an spoke briefly af­ter Haque's pre­sen­ta­tion on 'God Par­ti­cle-A huge dis­cov­ery of a tiny par­ti­cle that great­ly af­fects our un­der­stand­ing of the uni­verse.' He said: "There are many more dis­cov­er­ies that have to be made in the field of pol­i­tics and in that con­text, I be­lieve that we have had a won­der­ful ex­po­si­tion on a very com­plex is­sue.

"An­oth­er les­son I picked up was that every­thing has struc­tures and that the uni­verse has a struc­ture, and in dis­cov­ery of 'God's par­ti­cle' is get­ting in the very heart of the struc­ture of the uni­verse and there­fore the laws of physics are like­ly to be ad­just­ed to in­cor­po­rate this new dis­cov­ery in the way in which they have ex­plained the struc­tures of the uni­verse."

Dook­er­an said it struck him that in the world of pol­i­tics, where he spent all of his adult life, the is­sue of struc­tures is al­so rel­e­vant. He said per­haps some physi­cists were need­ed in pol­i­tics to show politi­cians the struc­tures.