“Dr Rowley, you’re fired!” This was the pronouncement from management consultant Dr Vera Dookie-Ramlal, a frontline speaker at Thursday’s UNC Couva North Budget talks.
Ramlal, in her declaration to Dr Rowley, as she condemned his Government’s action, employed the line being used by US Republican presidential contender Donald Trump on the current US election campaign trail. Trump at rallies had been dismissing US President Joe Biden with “You’re Fired!”—a catchphrase from Trump’s reality TV show The Apprentice, after US Vice President Kamala Harris recently became the US Democratic Party’s potential nominee.
Dookie-Ramlal who is also UNC St Augustine’s education officer, said, “I just have one key point I want to make, and that surrounds the honourable Dr Keith Rowley. With all due respect, I want to say to him: You’re fired! It’s been blunder after blunder under the PNM. It’s time to hand over the reins of power to people who have a stellar record and can get the job done.
“I’d like to make a call to action, and that is to call the election now. We suffered enough, 5,000 plus lives have been lost. This is our human resources.”
Referring to “the praying” Police Commissioner Erla Harewood-Christopher’s call for divine intervention, Dookie-Ramlal said there comes a time “when you have to stop praying and start doing; the doing is what counts, that’s what makes the difference.”
Dookie-Ramlal said the same result was occurring in every sector.
Lobbying for UNC to become Government, she added, “We’re aiming for efficiency and effectiveness.”
UNC MP Ravi Ratiram, referencing Minister in National Security Keith Scotland’s appointment, said the Government’s new policy was “putting a man on a bicycle with a coal pot on his head to see how best he could help solve the crime.”
Scotland in Parliament in 2022 advocated bike riding and coal pot use if people couldn’t afford gas. He’d subsequently apologised for the remark.
