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The People’s Partnership Government yesterday imposed the ultimate sanction on Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley for taking email transcripts to Parliament without waiting for authentication by the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service or the Integrity Commission.
And the People’s Partnership, whose charge was led by Leader of Government Business Dr Roodal Moonilal and Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, imposed its vengeance without waiting for authentication regarding the accuracy of those emails by the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service or the Integrity Commission.
(Copyright AFP 2014/Frederic Dubray)
In the words of self-declared US asylum seeker, Nikki Minaj: Let that soak in, like seasoning.
“(The Parliament) is the domain where we must look at the evidence that has come to the fore, not to wait for the police.”
You might think that was a desperate statement from Rowley to justify his decision to circumvent a police investigation and take a stack of emails to Parliament. But you would be wrong.
That statement was made by Moonilal to justify his decision to circumvent a police investigation to suspend Rowley for circumventing a police investigation.
This is not a fete in here, as David Rudder once poignantly explained, this is madness.
Persad-Bissessar explained that, although the Parliament supported freedom of speech, that freedom ‘must be regulated and should have a foundation of evidence.’
You might be thinking that the Prime Minister was referring to Tobago East MP Vernella Alleyne-Toppin’s scripted and repulsive attack on Rowley, which was the headline act of Persad-Bissessar’s own no-confidence motion.
If you did, please try and keep up.
Yesterday, Moonilal slammed Rowley for supposedly desecrating Parliament with “unsubstantiated allegations” that spoke to high crimes and misbehaviour in public office by senior public officials.
Moonilal then hinted, without substantiation, that Rowley had put missiles and cocaine in the water tank of a former minister.
“If you lie, you must also say goodbye,” said Moonilal, in his best Reverend Al Sharpton prose.
Yet, it is Rowley alone who will have to take his leave. Clearly, there are no mirrors in Parliament.
As the People’s Partnership enters its last month, Persad-Bissessar and her touted “rat pack” are treating Parliament in the same manner that reckless youths treat a rental vehicle. And, of course, MPs don’t have to put up a security deposit when they take the wheel in Trinidad and Tobago.
On Sunday, an unnamed mechanic took a TT$1 million dollar Nissan GTR for a joyride and totally destroyed it in a crash. The “supercar” was a gift by businessman Imtiaz Edoo for his son, who has had to ‘make do’ with a Range Rover since the accident.
“He (the mechanic) said he knows he is responsible and that he messed up big time,” Edoo told the Trinidad Express. “I asked him to sign a disclosure stating that he is responsible and that he is willing to take full responsibility of trying to repay me something. He signed it without any apprehension… but as everything else, you could always find some way that you don’t have to pay…
“It was just a ridiculous situation… I won’t give him any other jobs again.”
Methinks a sizeable portion of the Trinidad and Tobago electorate knows exactly how Edoo feels. And we don’t even have a Range Rover as consolation.
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Download the data and recheck for me Lasana.
Can someone explain to me why Google’s Transparency Report shows no requests from Trinidad and Tobago as at June 2014?
http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/data/
Lasana remember, we have no concept of rock bottom in this land.
Lord I am good and proper outnumbered on political views and now sports which I never played and don’t follow.
As if this government needs any help to be embarrassed. Steups, oui!
Your suggestion makes no sense to me at all I’m afraid . None!
I wonder if Nigel would satisfy the BCCI Suspect Bowling Action Committee….
So the PP jumped the gun on the IC to penalise Rowley for supposedly jumping the gun on IC? Glad that makes sense to use Nigel Darwent. You should have a QC title oui.
What is there to spin?….his tactic worked and he was able to justify bringing it to Parliament under privilige in order to embarass the Government. It seems to me that the long lead is the time taken to get the information out of Google a matter his tactic could not influence.
So Rowley carried the matter to the President as a trick because he knew the President would do nothing? Or maybe he bewitched the President into a state of inertia?
I’m supposing that in between that he forced down the price of oil right? Sigh. :-/
Now see if you can spin this one away nah.
But it did.
Pure tokenism, made I believe in the certainty that unravelling the constitutional issues in that unprecedented move would use up enough time to produce the justification he ultimately used. How could he have thought for a moment that taking it public under the protection of Parliament could have speeded up the process that he himself had initiated?
Should read investigation
Bill our neighbours were laughing at us when mr rowley made d breaking news in 2013at d same place the govt made their revalation mr rowley did not go to the police for an investigationion
Bill our neighbours were laughing at us when mr rowley made d breaking news in 2013at d same place the govt made their revalation mr rowley did not go to the police for an investigationion
All of the following is still on going and is pending an investigation or warrants one but yet they have the nerve to move a motion of censure against Dr. Rowley (Suspended from parliament):
Section 34.
The hiring of a telephone operator to head the SIA- Reshmi Usha Ramnarine
Within 24 hours of questions being raised about her appointment and her qualifications for the post of director of the Security Intelligence Agency (SIA), Reshmi Usha Ramnarine resigned.
Life sport- 400million wasted.
The firing of the AG and 20 other cabinet ministers…largest in Caribbean history.
An invisible infrared beam used to transmit conversations was found in the conference room, of the DPP’soffice.
Mis management of state funds-300billion to date.
The de stabilizing and now Moody’s downgrading of our beloved country.
Dana seetahal.
Exportation of six million in cocaine left unanswered.
The unlawful dismissal of Gary Griffith.
I think our neighbors are more laughing at the above and much more that I didn’t list.
We were discussing the suspension of mr.rowley u brought up other matter that i will respond to later as i am at work. Please note moodys downgraded under another administration and are u insinuating the govt id involved with the death of dana and d drugs.my views are the firing of public officials id a goof move but please remember caulder hart and his billions the tobago hospital landate lara stadium etv etc etc remember everything this government and past govetment please take off our blinkers and be fair have s blessed and wpondergul day.
Our neighbors are not only laughing but in disarray as to how an opposition can be censured and parliament is still continuing. Without any opposition the government can do as they please. You kick a man out of office because he asked to investigate a matter. But I guess you wouldn’t see it that way since common sense and logical thinking isn’t anywhere in your skills set. They laugh cause this is a blasted joke your whole party is a disgrace to the human race
This was the same thing I asked myself today, aren’t they still investigating this thing. But our politics is clearly for entertainment value and not anything of substance (shrugs shoulders) I really fed up in truth.
Did Dr. Rowley not state quite clearly in this address that he carried the information to His Excellency the President, who passed it to the Integrity Commission? And that he waited some 6 months after before he took it to the Parliament? But some would not wish us to be confused by the facts, ent?
It’s so sad , Our neighbors are laughing at us.
Nigel does buy only PP ting, Lasana.
I didn’t buy it then and do not now….far too many words strung elquently together just to answer a simple question. What they say “He doth protest too much” or maybe “He doth explain too much.” Bottom line is that he admits that he ignored both the Police and the IC before bussing the files.
Me like!
Whom the gods wish to destroy first made mad
Nigel Darwent, you can judge for yourself. This was Rowley’s explanation via audio: http://wired868.com/2013/05/25/dynamic-or-desperate-the-opposition-leader-responds/
Did Rowley ignore the Police and IC before taking the e-mails to Parliament safe under the protection of Parliamentary Privilege?
That is what I thought the process should be exactly Lasana Liburd. But it is evident our democracy has died and we have a chosen few who can freely fly above due process once threatened.
Great work good sir.
The IC is only supposed to find out whether the info is correct in my opinion. And then the Privileges Committee is supposed to rule whether it was a violation of his Parliamentary privilege in terms of being reckless.
Because you can be wrong without being reckless.
And yet the Gov’t has circumvented every single body entrusted with making a decision and booted a MP out of Parliament because it can.
No new info here
Who was/is on trial in this again? Maybe I’m missing something.
Let it soak in, like seasoning…
Listen nah I had a tough day and by just Lasana and Jevon comments I laughed…
Been waiting patiently
Ok
It does for criminal libel, Kendall Tull.
Not sure that you are correct in that view. I don’t think that intent matters in the case of slander. Can the lawyers weigh in on these matters?
words fail me.
except the words What de mudda…..
And I still say that, by law, repeating false information is not in itself a crime unless you did so knowing it was false.
I suppose in theory Rowley has the option to take action against the PP for the same thing they suspended him for.
The Parliament must be like the Vatican. A State inside a State!
The tables turn real bad and and is rajaee and i our have to faceoff with. Let it all begin. We waiting on our bandit and killers.. for dana we making for our pay. That whole govt gone.
I doubt we still going mad though. Right Michael Samuel? We ent reach yet?
You could not make this stuff up if you tried. So Parliament is above the rule of law and punish you for being guilty without the benefit of the Police and DPP? Did they reveal the evidence that purportedly prove that the emails were false for the benefit of the accused to review as is required in a court of law? Is it proper for the Parliament to pronounce on a matter that is the subject of an ongoing investigation by the institutions charged with that responsibility?
Can anyone answer these questions for me please?
Great article!
Madness indeed!
Top shelf… excellent vintage!
Haha! Range Rover is bad for your health…convolutions and circus
One of your best pieces, yet, Mr. LiveWire.
So much for rule of law and adherence to policy and procedure. This government’s legacy will be one of atrocious neglect and disrespect and abandonment of being circumspect.
“this is not a fete in here,… this is madness.” Ay yi yay yi yi yi….madness indeed. Sad. smh