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Just when you think Trinidad and Tobago’s politics has lost the capacity to surprise. Out jumps another revelation that seems so ludicrous and unconscionable that one does not know whether to laugh or cry.
But enough about Jack Warner’s stunning announcement that he can find 40 people willing to lose their deposits for his ILP party at the 2015 General Elections.
Has anyone heard about the resignation of Justice Sebastian Ventour from the Integrity Commission, due to its suspicious “exoneration” of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar?
(Courtesy i95.5FM)
It turns out that President Anthony Carmona, a man who is allegedly happy to receive a $28,000 housing allowance while staying in a State house, might not be best equipped to find just five people capable of lasting much more than a year in a body with goals as lofty as the Integrity Commission. As the old people say: Sheep don’t lime with goat.
Once again, Persad-Bissessar’s increasingly desperate attempts to wriggle free of probing questions in general and the “emailgate” investigation in particular comes into focus.
Rowley’s jaw-dropping stack of emails is not the only thing that seems to be unsettling “Tanty Kamla.”
With the Opposition party rubbing its hands in anticipation of today’s “Private Members Day” in Parliament, the People’s Partnership responded by expelling Rowley from Parliament on the grounds that “emailgate” was a hoax—an action that violate the spirit of the constitution even if they were right, but is even worse since they were not.
The PP then tried to declare Warner as Opposition Leader so as to field questions from the ILP boss rather than tackle the PNM’s expected onslaught on the Petrotrin scandal. And, when that also failed along with the Integrity Commission’s hollow so-called exoneration, the Prime Minister claimed to be unwell.
Undoubtedly, there is no shortage of quacks wielding fake doctorates, within close proximity to the Prime Minister, who could sign her sick-note.
(Courtesy Trinidad Guardian)
Persad-Bissessar did not mention Parliament once when she spoke of her ailment. But she made it clear that it would not prevent her from attending the PP’s fifth anniversary celebrations in Macoya on Sunday.
“I will not miss it for anything,” the Prime Minister told the Trinidad Express. “I am looking forward to it… I will take a little rest, doctors have advised that I should take a little rest, and we will be fine.”
Maybe it is time for Trinidad and Tobago to ask itself a question or two: Would a woman with little obvious respect for the law or the opinion of anyone outside of her “My Lime” list be prepared to peacefully step aside as Prime Minister if the polls demand it?
Would a woman who, for the last two years, has avoided ratifying her own post as political leader in the UNC’s internal elections be any more respectful towards the electorate of the two island republic?
Can we expect that a Prime Minister who thinks nothing of putting pressure on independent bodies like the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service, the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Police Complaints Authority and the Integrity Commission could be trusted to leave the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) in peace?
Who will investigate if there is evidence of voter fraud and irregularities? Jack Russo from ComputerLaw? Justice Zainool Hosein?
Trinidad and Tobago has been on alert for a creeping dictatorship for some time now. But Mr Live Wire has a sneaking suspicion that dictatorship ent creeping anymore. It’s wearing high heels.
Peaceful and optimistic to a fault—not to mention allergic to responsibility—the public has turned its eyes towards a new hero to save the country from political instability: the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service.
If the Police Service is the answer, can you remind me what the question is please?
Mr Live Wire wouldn’t trust the police to find him a Carib in a pub.
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Fayola Bostic, you know how most of us would sit in traffic and stew. And some people will think absolutely nothing of driving on the shoulder for as far as they can?
Well, we are bound by our belief that rules exist for a reason and our fear that we might be punished if we break them.
The PPG are the motorists laughing as they drive up the shoulder. Cause they know the system doesn’t work.
It is impossible to stop them within our current mindset. We will always dream of a policeman doing that job somewhere up the road.
Somehow, we need a mindset that allows to stop a criminal without turning one ourselves.
Figure that riddle out and you can be the next great leader of this country. 😉
Well then use some non-violent models. People have already poo-pooed the section 34 March. the Reroute movement was laughed at. Smelter protests and on and on. Trinis doing the work get dismissed on the regular by people saying Trinis only like to fete
I feel the murders in Trinidad are about business not pleasure Vernal Damion Cadogan. I think Trinis peaceful unless they are paid not to be.
But I know that might be wishful thinking.
An “Arab Spring” need not be violent.
I disagree with you in another way though, Trinidadians aren’t peaceful………..look at the murder rate.
I’m not saying be apathetic. I am just pumping some brakes for the arm chair revolutionaries invoking Arab Spring. Ask the Syrians how well that turned out for them. We are a peaceful nation and I am thankful for it. Let’s use some better examples to get people mobilised.
Fayola, if the elections aren’t called then you can’t be apathetic. If we let that slide, we’ll end up like Cuba.
Facebook IS as far as the “Trinidad Spring” will ever go.
We doing it virtually from where it’s comfortable! Hahaha
Lol David CB Smith. Anybody who pays close attention to any industry will have an opinion on what is going on there. Anyone who says otherwise is lying.
The proper way to evaluate an article is to see if the author properly defended his or her assertions.
Forget bias. Talk of bias is always a red herring from people who try to hide from the contents of a story.
No thanks to anybody requesting an Arab Spring. I rather get tongue lashed for apathy from frustrated Trinis over Facebook
Hahahahaha! Yes the election will be held! She prides herself on holding all elections when constitutionally due. If however, the elections are not held, well then we go occupy every blasted thing that can be occupied!
Bless your heart Chebeth, you’re actually reasonably confident that the General Election will be held! LOL
I really don’t think now is the time for occupy anything. That just seems like a potential prompt for a second SOE and delayed elections. Everybody just needs to vote whichever way they choose come Election Day. Hopefully however, these last five years have taught us the perils of our collective complacency so that we adjust our behaviour heading into the next five years regardless of who forms the next government.
Vernal u r so right i was just saying now is the time for a massive demonstration n force them out this is real BS n people still talking i wonder what it will take for people to wake up this shit can only happen here yes Steupssss
“Isn’t it curious that while they were making a tremendous effort, heaven and earth, talking about ‘fake e-mails’, that we now end up with what appears to be a ‘fake’ vindication?” Rowley asked.”
Hahaha
Debbie Espinal “she don’t know how to curry duck, but she knows how to duck and carry” yuh mean?
Biased political views notwithstanding, oh gorm Lasana, you mean you couldn’t get a better picture of Sharma?
Judy I am sure the protesters ofv the Arab spring had jobs to worry about as well.
The Sebastien Ventour I am privileged to know cannot STAND dishonesty, collusion, lack of integrity and morals, and definitely would NOT condone criminality. So when I learnt last evening of his resignation, even before reading the article and on just seeing the headline, I said “Aha! There is something rotten in the air at the Integrity Commission”.
Debbie, she will not be there because she will be at home resting on doctor’s orders.
Debbie, concerned citizens marched. Vernal, as I see it, there is so much fear. Many more people would have been there if they were not afraid for their jobs. It may well come down in the next few weeks to ‘occupy something’ because they may have to act when their backs hit the walls.
Gosh we had that long before…remember the more recent attempt to get rid of Justice Sharma? The banality of evil….
But i won’t hold my breath for KPB showing up in Parliament today. That woman don’t only know how to curry duck she also knows how to duck and run.
No one have time for politics on a Friday. Plain talk bad manners.
Have to correct you there Vernal. It was mostly PNM who marched in Section 34 you forgot? Not sure where i fit in but i was there.
It’s not that Debbie, I realized some time now that Trinidad and Tobago has few citizens.
PNM and UNC though have entire nations!
Vernal you have me laughing. We tried that since Section 34. How many people turned up? A few thousand? All Trinis study is FETE and the next PARTY not the one we would like. Besides today is Friday you think the age group all this madness will affect studying this?. Don’t mess with Trinis and their liming time. Maybe if it happened on Monday and they were bored they MAY have taken it on but not today, sadly not today or any other day as a matter of fact.
You know who’s sick?
Trinidadians.
Exactly how many more institutions involved in this Emailgate have been revealed to have been compromised by minions, how many more will need to be revealed to have been compromised by minions before the citizens of this banana get up off their lazy assessment and shut down this country?
It’s time
#occupywaterfront
#occupysavannah
#occupywoodfordsquare
#justoccupysomething
So agree with Greer Cave and Lasana. No longer a creeping dictatorship but wearing high heels. I kept saying all along one day we will wake up and find ourselves in Venezuela’s position and then everyone will be asking “how did we get here”???? What about Wade Mark. Doesn’t this make him look like a jackass not that he wasn’t one before also is he now going to reinstate Dr Rowley? Look is serious madness in this Town and people still prepared to bury their heads in the sand and defend the indefensible and stick with this excuse for leadership at all costs. Lord please put a hand.
So, if I get it right.. Dr Rowley the Opposition Leader came into Parliament with a stack of false emails impugning the integrity of our Prime Minister and other members of her Cabinet two years ago. The matter was referred or taken up by something called The Integrity Commission and the Police Service.. It is now two years later and the Honourable Prime Minister’s name has been cleared by the Integrity Commission, but the Police Service is quiet. And now a member of the Integrity Commission has very publicly resigned and said that he wants no part of the clearance. Another has mysteriously found personal reasons to resign the day before the clearance .. And of course it is only 5 members of this esteemed Commission so clearance was given by 3 of the 5 members??? And we are expected to believe that there is not more in the pestle than the mortar?? Ah well, when the leadership class in our society take us for fools like Dookeran did and Manning did and now Kamla does,, what are we to do??
I propose that we try to make our voices heard in whatever manner we can.. We are not fools ( or are we?)
This is the most truthful post you can get on this issue :
Obviously, all members of the commission are biased , some are biased to the PNM and some are biased to the PP.
And there just happened to be more PP biased people in the commission …
The “evidence” is worthless . There is no need for evidence for people to make decisions ..
The DPP’s office is also Biased, trying to favour the PNM …
We can demonstrate the worthlessness of the evidence by going back to 2002.
In 2002 ,, a PNM biased Integrity commission BROKE THE LAWS of T&T in order to wrongfully convict Badeo Panday , with the help of a PNM biased judge who was a personal friend of the (then) AG ….
There have been 4 rulings citing breach of law by the integrity commission.
but that does not matter because the 2002 and 2007 elections were affected by the illegal and incorrect and IMMORAL use of the Integrity Commission by the PNM ….
SO PLEASE DON’T TELL ME VENTOUR IS ACTING MORALLY …
He is just VEX the PP biased people outnumber him on the current Commission ..
Ventour did not CARE if the PM was innocent.. Ventour like, the deputy DPP , Sherman Mc Nicholls and the old IC that did a hacket job on Panday , had his mind made up and did not care to see evidence …
he is angry he could not sway another illegal ruling, as the one the IC did on Panday , with a specific intent to affect the upcoming elections .
This is a rinse and repeat of an old PNM tactic. But the population is a bit more aware now and not taking the chain up as easily.
Of Course, Ventour angry that the PP biased Chairman, made a statement that was not neutral, but backed the PP. So in retaliation Ventour threw away his position are reputation in a last ditch to tarnish the commission and the PP .
But I am sure Ventour has no problem with the Deputy DPP’s obviously PNM biased statements..
(clear hypocrisy)
But.. in this whole story …
on BOTH sides, both PNM and PP people are acting immorally…
and Lasana Liburd is no different , he is acting immorally in support of his party (the PNM) …
and lying to himself each day telling himself that he is “honest” and “ethical” …
when in these blogs he clearly demonstrates his bias and lack of moral standing …
Immoral people in this fiasco include the PM, the opposition leader, the DPP and the deputy DPP, The chiarman of the IC, and the former Deputy Chairman, the Police Commissioner, the 2 retired Senior Police officers who submitted their names to be PNM candidates ….
and now also Lasana Liburd, can be added to the list ….
And WHY T&T will not get any better ?
Because every time someone does something wrong , they are defended by 1/2 the population…
and the hypocrisy of 90% of the people in T&T is evident …
if person x does deed a,,, he is wrong but if person y does deed a,, he is right ..
Agree with everything here, the dictatorship isnt creeping, its wearing high heel shoes, we just have to hope and pray she and this PP Government don’t plunge this country into “Guyana” style protests when the dust have settled, the ending was boss though “wouldn’t trust a policeman to find me a Carib in a pub” haha he might bring you back a Stag and say “Well at least its a man’s beer” right (wink wink)
Anybody ever notice how well-timed our honourable PM’s sick days are?
http://www.7is7.com/otto/countdown.html?year=2015&month=6&date=17&ts=24&hrs=0&min=0&sec=0&lang=en&show=dh&mode=r&cdir=down&bgcolor=%23000000&fgcolor=%23ff0000&title=The%20end%20of%20PP%20government%27s%20farcical%20rule%20is%20coming%20on… (pray that the end is really coming for this PPG!)
Real talk live wire
That is why the only party that I am supporting and voting for and encouraging every other decent person in this country to vote for is N.O.T.A. …….None Of The Above. I intend to write that on my ballot paper.
Gerard Gerard Gerard…where do I begin? Let’s just hope those decent people you’re gonna be encouraging aren’t as smart as you…k?
We’ve been flirting with dicatatorship since we allowed ourselves to be silenced on our PM holding public office in a private residence.
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared, but….only men of character are trusted!!!
well said
We’ve been flirting with dictatorship since the SoE/assassination plot/Granny Quilla, and the public communicated it’s consent by it’s silence.
That’s what we talking about!
26 days dat cyar done fast enough!!!!!
Bravo couldn’t put it any better myself. It use to be that every week was something new, now it’s every day. Its said the longest rope has an end so I guess the PM and her party are holding on to the frayed edges. Its glaringly frightening to now realize that there seems to be some truth to these emails, else why the covert operations to feign victory where it hasn’t been proven? As the elections draw nigh, I’m a bit apprehensive and very worried as to what extent they’ll go to hold on to power. They say that power has the ability to corrupt, I think in this case it has sent them into the abyss of madness.
The job finish court and p/ment going and close election date calling,PNM last family day, what it is people want, don’t waste time every time you decide to the radio forget it ,go and give a pint of blood at least your name will be written in a book,you think when your money spent on calls is the radio and tstt smiling to the bank.
Truth indeed
I note the usually rabid UNC apologists are in stunned silence over this one. Hmmm … Chickens coming home to roost with a hot diarrhea too, crapping over everything!
This is a real concern:
Would a woman with little obvious respect for the law or the opinion of anyone outside of her “My Lime” list be prepared to peacefully step aside as Prime Minister if the polls demand it?
Would a woman who, for the last two years, has avoided ratifying her own post as political leader in the UNC’s internal elections be any more respectful towards the electorate of the two island republic?
Can we expect that a Prime Minister who thinks nothing of putting pressure on independent bodies like the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service, the Director of Public Prosecutions, the Police Complaints Authority and the Integrity Commission could be trusted to leave the Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) in peace?
Who will investigate if there is evidence of voter fraud and irregularities? Jack Russo from ComputerLaw? Justice Zainool Hosein?
>>>>
and this:
If the Police Service is the answer, can you remind me what the question is please?
God help us all! Please! This is a prayer for salvation. No joke.
Oh and President Powers makes a statement today so looking forward to that as well. You should conserve your satire for that piece of work.
We are always waiting for someone to do our work for us.
I like what you said about the public tho it’s so true maybe they want dictatorship it would remove civic responsibility from their hands
Thanks for making the time Lasana I know how busy you are!
Hey Lasana, these arithmetic entry quizzes getting harder – today’s style of classroom work will be seeing the young people pulling out calculators – 8 X ? = 56, you going mad or what! Just some fun. The truth is Lasana, I believe that your style of writing and bringing together the picture is most commendable, while, keeping the reader involved throughout. Keep it up and I hope you are blessed even further with your dreams and work.
Everything about this situation – from whether the emails are real or fake to the concerted efforts to undermine the investigative process – is truly frightening. Are we having international observers for the election?
And you know Tanty Kam’s usual wriggle-free policy is to clkaim that she was poorly ‘advised’ so that she is somehow blameless despite the circumstances. However, in this fiasco she never claimed a subsidiary role; she led the charge from the front with more “I”s than a 50lb sack of aloo! What possible exit strategy can shge implement noiw, save calling the date now and hoping to the heavens for reelection?