Yuh Hatta Think It, Before Yuh Do It
Trinbagonians Thinking Now
Trinidad and Tobago had 2 elections since my last post. Time flies.
The local election results saw a strong return
by the PNM. You can read the resultshere.
My predictions were all correct. Love it when you could read the writing on
the wall while other believe differently even in the face of facts.
First - The PNM walked away with 9 of the 14 available seats, gaining some inroads into the Chaguanas constituency. The PP government saw it as a win for them, I'm not going to touch that, maybe you could figure it out.
The ILP also was able to grab a couple of council seats in Chaguanas but in the end one of the Councilor cross over and voted for the UNC nomination for Mayor and control of the Chaguanas Corporation. You can read about that here if you wish.
St Joseph By-Election
UNC beaten again in the St Joseph Constituency
By-elections. The candidates and the
results were as follows;
The winner: PNM,
Terrance Deyalsingh, previously a Senetor, calm low keyed. He is the one who wondered why his opponents
came to register as a candidate with tassa drums and a huge entourage of
supporters. He won by 779 votes, see here.
Second -: The UNC , Ian Alleyne: Mr. Alleyne was a local talk show host who
labeled himself as a one man crime fighter
whose favorite saying was “I’m not for sale”. He surprised everyone by taking the UNC
platform and lamblasting Jack Warner for lying about a phone call he got from
the AG, Anand Ramlogan, offering him the candidacy for St. Joseph. Then
there were rumors that alleged that “He did not sell out because he was bi” His promise was to help the security minister
fight crime. Now that he lost, he ent
helping nobody. Makes you say hmmm ,
Third - ILP, Om Lalla, Om Lalla is Mr. Warner personal local lawyer
and anyone would think that he had to know that he did not stand a chance of
winning or even beating the PNM or the UNC in St. Joseph. He maybe was thinking that the ILP would do
what they did in Chaguanas where they won every district. OK so if he knew, why did he do it? It is my opinion that people have hidden
agendas, things they don’t share with the public. That would be the only plausible answer, and
he is not sharing.
Independent Candidate Errol Fabian: Local TV station owner and comedian, Errol is
well intentioned and I could see why, like me, he did not align himself with
any particular party and like me he should not have wasted his time and energy
contesting the election. His loss was too
predictable.
The fact is that an
independent don’t stand a chance in this political climate. People are looking for representation that
could make a difference, if not now, at least in the next election which is due
in 2015. Errol offered no hope for
people to access these services.
He did
however beat the last candidate, Mr. Lopez resoundingly; he got 300 votes. From memory I believe that Mr. Lopez got one
vote. Agenda again, the hidden agenda we may never read or hear about.
The writing is really on the wall when a government that won
a mandate in 2010 finds itself losing every election that is called during it’s
reign. In fact, few governments have had
to face the embarrassing situation of having to conduct so many elections
during its term of office. As we speakthe plot unfolds.
The writing on the wall is saying that the government is about to change again. In 2010, with Patrick Manning at the head of the PNM the government had to change. Now we find ourselves at the same crossroads with no viable alternative but the PNM.
Do you see any other conclusion to this?
No comments:
Post a Comment
Got something to say: do it. All comments are label "anonymous" you will not be identified. You are safe when you comment so go ahead and say something; anything. Thank you for visiting this blog.