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You know that ZR is an elected MP right?
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UML wrote:
Chaos at Plipdeco warehouse
Radhica Sookraj
Published:
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Calls are being made for the new Government, led by Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, to investigate corruption and inefficiency at the Point Lisas Industrial Development Company (Plipdeco) warehouse. The call came as hundreds of customers were turned away from the warehouse yesterday after being told only 65 customers will be serviced a day.
Many of them arrived at the Plipdeco Less than Container Load (LCL) warehouse before dawn, hoping to collect their goods. However, security officers informed them if their names were not on the list, it was best that they went back home. Ramjit Rampersad, who came at the facility at 5.15 am, said he got number 26. However, even up to 11 am, his goods had not been cleared.
“I am still waiting and it is a long process. I don’t know why they are moving so slow. If I had reached here after 7 am, I would not have gotten through. This morning we had about 190 people waiting,” Rampersad said. A port worker, who requested anonymity, said his colleagues were deliberately frustrating the process so they could get bribes from the public.
“If people frustrated they will be more inclined to pay a little bribe to get their goods instead of waiting for days for it to be cleared,” the worker said. Ancil Pierre who was also waiting at the port since 5.30 am said Customs workers should do better than make the public suffer.
“They need to extend the hours. People are taking time off from their jobs to come here. If they are closing at 4 pm, why is it they telling people that they cannot clear their barrels if they come here after 9 am?” Pierre questioned. Saying he was disappointed with the delays, Pierre added it was unfair for people to have to spend two days waiting by the port to clear their goods.
Russel Rudder, who was waiting for his sister to clear goods, said he hoped the new Government would fix the problems at the warehouse. “This has to be more efficient. They need to speed up this process. I am coming from Tunapuna and it should not be taking so long to do one transaction,” he noted.
Mandy Powell of Point Fortin who came to the warehouse to collect goods for a church said she took a day off from work but could not get her business done. “I am hoping that I will get through today. The office at T&T Express opens at 8 am and the Customs officer comes here from 8 am, yet they telling us if we come here after 9 am, they cannot do the transaction,” Powell said.
LCL’s warehouse manager Clint Duncan was not available for comment yesterday. An official from his office took a message and said he would return the call. Plipdeco’s supervisor of corporate communications, Gizelle Crooks, was not in office. Shelly Balkissoon, Plipdeco’s manager, marketing and business, advised that an email be sent on the issue. She said a response would have to be cleared by Plipdeco’s management before being issued.
what is LCL warehouse?
LCL warehouse is a Customs-bonded facility which is located 1.3 km from the port of Point Lisas. The office working hours and yard operations are from 7 am to 3 pm, Monday to Friday with a half hour staggered lunch break between 11 am to 12 noon. The cashier’s office closes at 2.30 pm. (http://www.plipdeco.com/main/?page=othe ... t-contacts)
plipdeco responds
Contacted yesterday, the company’s manager of Marketing & Business, Shelly Balkissoon, said there were no delays in clearing barrels at LCL warehouse.
“Today there was an unusually high number of customers. Normally we facilitate an average of approximately 120 to 130 customers per day and this volume is determined by the Customs and Excise Division. This is based on the duration of the screening and examination process which varies based on the type of cargo and as such, the average number can vary and may even be in excess of 130 customers per day,” Balkissoon said.
Asked why 65 to 70 customers were being serviced per day, Balkissoon responded: “This is determined by Customs and Excise. However, within recent weeks, we have successfully facilitated all of our customers.” Denying that workers were on a work to rule, Balkissoon said: “We control the volume of customers at the facility between the hours of 7 am to 3 pm.
“Again, this will vary based on the examination process and the type and quantity of cargo per consignee,” she added, Traditionally, Balkissoon explained that arrangements are made to facilitate the increase in volumes which is normally experienced between the months of October to February.
“We are monitoring the increase to determine if measures should be implemented ahead of this year’s peak season.” With regard to allegations of corruption, Balkissoon said: “We have no information or evidence to support the claim of attempts by Customs officers to obtain bribes. In fact, such allegations can potentially be considered defamatory to the corporation.”
http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2015-09- ... -warehouse
Kamla goes home with no security escort
By AZARD ALI Wednesday, September 9 2015
A Special Branch inquiry is being done into why outgoing Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar had no security escort to her home in Phillipine after arriving there in a private car when the official vehicle PM 1 stalled at her Siparia constituency office in Penal early yesterday morning.
After a 30-minute concession speech, following her People’s Partnership Government defeat to the People’s National Movement in Monday’s general election, Persad-Bissessar was taken home without a security detail, as Special Branch officers remained at the constituency office trying to get PM 1 to start. It appeared the ignition failed.
Persad-Bissessar was making her way to a door leading to a downstairs exit when a Special Branch officer informed her the keys to PM 1 were locked in the ignition and the official vehicle could not start.
Persad-Bissessar immediately responded by thanking the officer for “taking care of me”, indicating her family would take her home. The officer, however, asked the outgoing Prime Minister to wait a while until what was described as a minor mechanical problem was solved.
Persad-Bissessar replied: “No, everything is okay, I am with my family.” Another Special Branch officer chipped in, “We called a mechanic; we should get it sort out.” All the while, the driver of PM 1 was seen fiddling with the keys but to no avail. Persad-Bissessar walked downstairs and insisted to the security detail she was happy to be with her family and needed to go and repeated, “I’m okay; I’m with my family.” A white Toyota Axio then backed up in front of PM 1 and Persad- Bissessar got into the back seat.
The car was driven by a supporter and seated in the vehicle also were two of Persad- Bissessar’s relatives.
The white Axio drove off. However, Special Branch officers assigned to the two jeeps for her security detail did not follow and their vehicles remained parked near to PM 1 on the constituency office compound.
An officer from the nearby Penal Police Station then arrived as was allowed to attend to the locked steering wheel and got the keys out of the ignition.
And when another attempt was made, PM 1 started.
The Special Branch officers then got PM 1 and the two jeeps thanking the UNC supporters for helping them. The two jeeps were later seen driving into the compound of the Phillipine home of Persad-Bissessar, but it could not be confirmed whether PM 1 was driven there as well.
A c t i n g P o l i c e Commissioner Stephen Williams yesterday told Newsday he was unaware that Persad- Bissessar was not provided with a police escort to her home when she left her constituency office.
Williams said, “This is the first time I am hearing about this and I need to investigate the matter before commenting.” When contacted again, Williams said he checked with Special Branch and was the officers “did not abandon” the Prime Minister but he has asked head of the Special Branch ACP Earla Christopher for a full report on what happened.
However, a senior police officer told Newsday “police must follow protocol” and officers should have escorted her home. He said Persad-Bissessar would be, according to security protocol, afforded 24-hour security for the next three months.
http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,216753.html
BAD SWEAR-IN
By SEAN DOUGLAS Thursday, September 10 2015
A MIX-UP in protocol yesterday saw new Attorney General, Faris Al Rawi, and new Minister of National Security, Major General Edmund Dillon, each having to take their ministerial oath of office a second time, according to a statement from the Office of President.
At the Queen’s Hall ceremony, the duo were initially and erroneously sworn in before new Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley.
President Anthony Carmona administered the oath to Al Rawi at 1.40 pm, to Dillon at 1.42 pm and to Rowley at 1.43 pm.
A source told Newsday that the error was discovered but the proceedings were allowed to run so as not to embarrass the Office of President, but with the two men then later taking the oath a second time away from public glare.
The admission of error came last evening at 6.53 pm in a statement from the Office of the President.
“There was a sequential error in the order of the oath taking at today’s swearing-in ceremony of elected Prime Minister Dr Keith Christopher Rowley, Attorney General Faris Al Rawi and National Security Minister, retired Major General Edmund Dillon, at Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s,” said the statement.
“This has been immediately rectified and the Oath of Office was retaken by Mr Al Rawi MP and Retired Major General Dillon MP, and new instruments of appointment were reissued respectively at the Office of The President.
This error does not nullify in any way the oath and appointment of the duly elected Prime Minister.” Sources told Newsday that the second swearing-in occurred “shortly after” the official ceremony, and said that the official statement implied that it took place at President’s House.
Al Rawi told Newsday, “I noticed the order of the taking of the oath and brought it to the attention of the Office of President, and I am pleased that it was handled with immediacy.
I accept that it was a simple administrative error on the part of the organisers at the Office of the President.” Dillon too was unfazed by the mishap. “It was handled by President’s House officials quite comfortably,” he told Newsday.
“Let’s just leave it at that. It’s a President’s House function.” Asked if the mix-up took the sheen off the event, Dillon replied, “Not as far as I’m concerned.
It was handled by the officers at President’s House, and that’s good enough for me.” Fuelling speculation as to how the mix-up could have occurred, Newsday learnt that the Office of the President’s oath-book actually lists correctly the positions to be sworn-in the proper sequential order of firstly Prime Minister, secondly AG and thirdly other minister(s).
In an interview, on Radio i95.5 FM yesterday, President’s House former protocol officer Lenore Dorset said she did not know the current inner-workings of President’s House but said the two office- holders usually responsible for organising events for His Excellency are the Aide-de-Camp and the Secretary to the President.
She advocated the need to follow protocol by saying it is the mortar that holds everything together.
“We must not jump to conclusions in the matter,” she said.
“We have to think about this very carefully. What lessons do we learn? We need to be a little more careful in going over our plan.” Former government chief whip, Dr Roodal Moonilal, was scathing in his criticism which he laid at the feet of the new Government.
“They started on the wrong foot. They blunder at the first point even before becoming ministers,” he told Newsday. “It is common knowledge that the Prime Minister must take his oath first so that his advice can be acted upon to swear in his ministers. So they were swearing all day. It is a sad but symbolic of the incompetence that we expect in the days ahead.” Senior Counsel Israel Khan commented, “The Prime Minister enjoys the status of primus inter pares (“first amongst equals”). The Constitution says there is a Cabinet, comprising a Prime Minister and Attorney General. The Prime Minister is named first as he is the one who will select ministers. How come he was sworn in third? He should have been first.” The need to swear in the Prime Minister as the first member of Cabinet is implied by a reading of the TT Constitution, in section 76.
This section in sequential order mentions the Prime Minister first (s 76(1)), then the AG second (s 76(2)) and other Ministers third (s 76(3)).
http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,216805.html
Gate shut on 6 Tobago med students
Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Six medical students, five of them Bishop’s High School graduates, have had their dreams of becoming doctors crushed as they have been told that the Government Assistance for Tuition Expenses Programme (GATE) is no longer covering their tuition bill at the University of the West Indies’ Mona campus in Jamaica.
Arlene Perreira, sister of Luke Harris, one of the affected students, told Tobago Today the students discovered GATE was no longer footing their tuition bill only after arriving in Jamaica for the new academic years recently. She said the students had by then long collected their provisional acceptance letter from the university and travelled to the island to start the process for the new semester.
Initially, she said the students were not even told they were not being funded by the Trinidad and Tobago government.
“Only after they insisted that they be told the situation, the students heard from the Jamaican admissions office that GATE was only funding 40 students and they were not even sure if it covered first-year students,” Perreira told Tobago Today.
“The students were offered to either pay their own tuition or begin a degree in science and technology and reapply for the medical degree in their second year.”
Reached via telephone in Jamaica, Harris said the entire situation was “quite stressful” as he is not “sure about anything right now.”
He also said it was “a heavy burden to carry.”
“The situation is made worse as calls to the 800-GATE line indicate that the line is out of order.
“Whenever we call the GATE number we get a recording saying the number is out of service,” he told Tobago Today.
He also said his first attempt to apply to GATE online for tertiary tuition assistance failed because the “site was not working for a few days well.” He said he has since applied online but has also received no reply.
Harris said in the interim he was forced to enter the Science and Technology degree programme and has been told by the Jamaica admissions office that he has to maintain a 3.6 GPA average if he wants to reapply to the medical programme in his second year.
Harris said he was deeply troubled as the GATE funding for his new programme has also not yet been received by the university authorities.
He continues going to class but said if the funding is not received “within the next 3-5 weeks” he will be debarred from taking the first semester exam.
Last week, GATE director Theresa Davidson said students’ fees were paid on the ‘basis of merit.” She alluded to the fact that the opening of the San Fernando Teaching Hospital was now affording Trinidadian nationals the opportunity to stay at home instead of going to Jamaica to study medicine. She said the Government is currently paying US$28,000 annually for five years for 40 pupils at the Mona campus.
Prior to the opening of the San Fernando Teaching Hospital the Government was footing the bill for 50 students annually in Jamaica.
http://www.tobagotoday.co.tt/news/gate- ... d-students
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Concerns raised about new energy minister...Olivierre has been embroiled in lawsuit with NGC
Reshma Ragoonath
Shaliza Hassanali
Published:
Sunday, September 13, 2015
The ability of newly sworn in Energy Minister Nicole Olivierre to work with the National Gas Company (NGC) and her capacity to manage this critical sector are being called into question as oil prices continue to slide.
Olivierre, the newly elected La Brea MP, has been embroiled in a wrongful dismissal lawsuit with the management of this critical state agency, which now falls under her control.
Yesterday, political analyst and economist Indera Sagewan-Alli expressed reservations about Olivierre’s appointment given the pending lawsuit and her inexperience.
“I cannot see how sensible it would be to have a minister in a ministry to whom an institution has to report to while she is embroiled in a litigation with them. So it is anybody’s guess at this time as to how this is going to play out or be resolved,” she said.
In 2012 Olivierre, who was employed at NGC since 2002, filed a complaint of wrongful dismissal against the NGC at the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC). She alleged racial discrimination by the company, claiming that NGC refused her access to opportunities for training and promotion based on her race. The matter is still before the EOC.
Sagewan-Alli said she believed a critical factor at this time was the minister resolving the lawsuit and determining to what extent she could work with the NGC.
“Is she prepared to drop the lawsuit in the interest of good faith? To say, look the past is the past, but now I am on new things. Is she prepared to do that? I think we will just have to wait and see,” Sagewan-Alli said.
Sagewan-Alli said that only time would tell if Olivierre would be able to look past her previous interaction at the NGC and work with the state enterprise’s senior management.
She said Olivierre should be given the benefit of the doubt.
“If she follows in the words of her political leader, who has indicated he is the Prime Minister of the entire country, which means that she is the Minister of Energy for all the country and including all the institutions that must report to her, therefore she must act with fairness,” Sagewan-Alli added.
She said there was no way the Energy Minister could avoid having to work very intimately with the NGC, which is one of this country’s major sources of income.
“I think resolution of this particular issue has to be done ASAP. We know that the board will change and the PNM will put in its own board, so she will not have a problem or challenge working with a board of the government’s choice, but the senior management will remain.
“Is there an acrimonious relationship with her and the senior top management?” she asked.
While Olivierre has a degree in engineering, Sagewan-Alli questioned how many years of experience and depth of experience she has.
“It is something we have to be very concerned about because of the (Energy) sector,” she said.
Olivierre declined to share her cellphone number when approached by the Sunday Guardian after being sworn in at Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s, on Friday. She therefore could not be reached for comment.
NGC congratulates Olivierre
Last night, NGC Marketing and Communications manager Roger Sant did not comment on the matter, but said in a release:
“On behalf of NGC, we wish to extend our sincere congratulations to Ms Nicole Olivierre on the occasion of her appointment as The Honourable Minister of Energy and Energy Industries. We take pride in the appointment of one of our own former employees to this important position and extend our best wishes to the Honourable Minister for every success in the fulfillment of her duties.”
http://m.guardian.co.tt/news/2015-09-13 ... awsuit-ngc
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With this new Keith Rowley Cabinet, T&T is in for a rough ride
GERALD VINCENT
Sunday, September 13, 2015
AS expected, a collective sigh of relief has blanketed the nation following the end of the 2015 General Election in Trinidad & Tobago.
The People's National Movement (PNM) leader has somehow manoeuvred his way into the driver's seat and, because of a mysterious decision to extend voting outside of extraordinary circumstances, suspicion will forever haunt him as to the legitimacy of the Government and Cabinet he now leads.
At least half the population already sees him as illegitimate. And with a 20-year reputation of ill-tempered and erratic outbursts, serious credibility questions and a slew of allegations, Keith Rowley appears to be kicking off his term in very bad form.
Following a botched swearing-in, where somehow Rowley thought it sensible to swear in Cabinet members before he himself took the oath of office, Rowley read from a speech prepared for him by someone who clearly doesn't understand the man.
While one would want to think that his election proves some kind of political superiority, or even the greatness of his party, that's not so. Rowley's election, in fact, proves the power of marketing, especially when his opponents put up a multi-level fight that failed to truly represent the former Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, and the unprecedented term of performance and delivery she led.
In Rowley's entire political career he has never taken a political stand for the people; he has never taken up issues that affected anyone but himself; he destabilised his own party (the PNM) twice, and all through his career some people have refused to work with him because of what they say is his arrogance and irrational behaviour.
His most memorable outburst came after he decided to out his former leader, Patrick Manning, because he was fired for attempting to bully the Cabinet to get his way. His then leader would finally admit to the nation that he had had as much of Rowley as he could take, describing him as a raging bull who couldn't take 'no' for an answer. It also speaks volumes about a man who has gone so far once as to accuse the former Government of conspiring to murder a journalist. When it was later found that his e-mails never actually existed, Rowley and the PNM immediately went silent and avoided questions on what became known as "email-gate".
Building on this dubious reputation, during his campaign Keith Rowley made a number of promises, including the end of the Ministry of Local Government, an increase in salaries and benefits for himself and his Cabinet ministers, widespread spending cuts, and that elected members of parliament would be made to do the work of the people they represent, and not all occupy Cabinet positions. With mere days since the general election, Rowley has already recanted on some promises. He has taken the local government ministry and combined it with a Rural Development Ministry, placing his long-time friend and PNM chairman, Franklin Khan, as minister. Trouble is that the former Persad-Bissessar Administration undertook a comprehensive rural infrastructure transformation programme that leaves little work to be done in rural areas.
On his platform, Keith Rowley also boasted of the diversity of his party, one that has historically been seen as pro-Afro based political organisation. He also boasted fresh new faces, but the line-up of his Cabinet, so far, tells another story. It is, perhaps, another indication of a Government term that can be expected to be filled with broken promises and even repeats of the PNM's history of discrimination.
A look at his Cabinet tells a story. Faris Al Rawi, an old party stalwart who supported Rowley's bid, is now attorney general, but the more popular newcomer, Stuart Young, is Al Rawi's junior.
Clarence Rambharat, who was resoundingly rejected by the Mayaro electorate, has been appointed minister of agriculture, as if to say to the people, "No one really cares what you think."
Camille Robinson Regis, who was forced out of the Manning Government for misusing a Government credit card, has been returned to the senior post of planning and development minister.
Fitzgerald Hinds, who has long enjoyed his reputation of being anti-Indian, has been appointed to the mega Ministry of Works and Transport. Hinds has never been able to explain how he was able to afford a TT$14-million (US$2M plus) mansion in the upper-income Maraval district.
Colm Imbert has been appointed minister of finance. Imbert once almost faced criminal negligence charges for building a Grenada stadium that started falling apart, risking the lives of thousands. This is quite like the Tarouba Stadium project started by the PNM, where the budget was increased five times without the project being completed. The stadium is now considered unsafe.
Marlene McDonald has been appointed minister of housing and urban development. While in Opposition, she established a reputation as being resentful of development projects in communities outside of Port of Spain and the East/West corridor. She led the rebirth of the phrase "south of the Caroni River". She has also never fully answered for having her husband benefit from hundreds of thousands of dollars in grant funding under a paper NGO during the previous PNM Government.
Shamfa Cudjoe has been appointed minister of tourism, coming on the heels of years in Opposition singing the song of victim for Tobago, claiming the island should have been getting more out of the national budget, but refusing to entertain questions on what Tobago stands to contribute to the treasury.
All of these appointments, notwithstanding, Avinash Singh who has been the lone East Indian front-liner for the PNM, having fought and lost two general elections in the name of the PNM, has been given the most junior government post of parliamentary secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture. Singh's position is even junior to a Tobago PNM MP, Ayanna Webster, who was appointed -- seemingly as an afterthought -- as a minister of state in the Office of the Prime Minister.
The Ministry of Energy and Energy Affairs has been handed to an unknown in Nicole Oliveirre. The previous PNM Government left the energy sector in shambles, with oil and gas production plummeting, and with the exploration and energy services subsectors almost fully collapsed. With a newcomer now having to sit across negotiations with some of the most powerful CEOs on the planet, we await news of a reversal of the growth achieved in the past five years.
And who can forget Maxie Cuffie, the new minister of Rowley's information machinery. As a former editor of a weekly tabloid, the TnT Mirror, one wonders whether government information will be similar to the stories in the highly distrusted tabloid.
Trade and industry is now taken by Paula Gopee-Scoon, one of Trinidad & Tobago's most failing foreign affairs ministers under a previous PNM Government. We await news on what will happen to undo the work done by former Minister Vasant Bharath who earned the reputation of having the Midas touch by revolutionising the ease of doing business in Trinidad & Tobago.
What these appointments and revelations all point to is that Trinidad & Tobago is in for a rough ride. Not because of low energy prices, but because Keith Rowley's Cabinet has brought together the usual suspects who, all told, spent over $400 billion between 2001 and 2010 and, by the time they left office, left behind incomplete, over-budgeted projects, with contractors being owed billions. The PNM has never been able to manage the economy outside of boom conditions, and Trinidad & Tobago might just have made its final fatal error by putting the PNM to manage what will certainly be the decline of what could have been a great nation.
Already, people are asking, "Oh, my God, what have we done?"
http://m.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Wi ... e_19228505
Habit7 wrote:UML wrote:Always a great role modelHello !
Night night...
Good evening all.
It's been brought to my attention yet again, a false profile bearing a picture of me with some damning words attached.
My inbox is full to capacity with some asking if it is indeed I, with some accusing me of racisim and some startlingly enough threatening not only me but my child as well.
The picture/profile is not me.
I repeat:~ the profile is NOT mine nor have I ever posted such words and sentiment anywhere on Facebook.
While the picture is mine (from a past show) that picture has never been used as my profile picture, on my Rachel Price fan page and my Rachel Price private page.
Indeed the said fake/false profile was first generated on a politically inspired account three (3) years ago.
Amazing.
Simply amazing to me the level of hate fuelled desperation one group of individuals can stoop to when faced with utter disappointment.
I've seen the comments, and at this moment I weep for my land.
I cried.
I've cried, dried my eyes and steadiied my feet.
I cried not because the hateful comments are directed at me and those I represent corporately. I've heard much worst, it comes with being Rachel Price. I focus on the good, the "bad" I glean whatever lesson given.
I cried in disbelief that someone, anyone, people can be so gullible and so motivated to believe the worst when Truth can be so easily accessed.
I have nothing to defend.
I have in my possession a complete report from the Trinidad & Tobago Cyber Police Div, ready at hand. I've had it since January 2015.
If I Rachel Price indeed said anything as such and posted it anywhere, to all those who've so hastily swallowed such, please show EXACTLY where it was posted. Where. WHEN. HOW?
The profile is a Facebook profile, search and publish any evidence pillaring that contrived post.
Prove WHEN that picture was ever used as my FB profile pic.
When have I ever posted anything without the word "bless" at the end?
Nothing, no one, no bitterness based on a fabrication will ever have me run from the land of my birth. In the face of all ugly being pushed & pumped in my direction I choose to not only live but thrive as is my right in my homeland.
For this day I've held my only babe in my arms, consoling her. Stroking her hair, kissing away her anger.
Acknowleging her pain and absorbing her hurt.
Nurturing, constantly reiterating the old adage "To whom much is given much is required".
What's required now is the strength of Truth.
Truth:~
I am Rachel Price a classless loudmouth, a cussbud, a fighter, a warrior, a comedian, an entertainer, radio personality, a businessman, a challenge to the status quo, a lover and a mother, a Queen.
I make no apologies for my onstage persona. I cuss.
Niether do I make apologies for cussin, offstage. Language in all its forms I consider nothing but expression.
Obscenity is relative to form.
Obscene to me, is the abject use of a lie to further fuel divisiveness in a land that welcomes peace between all races.
I refuse to be worn by the machinations and imaginations of rage.
I am Rachel Price first child of Jean.
I am Rachel Price a citizen of Trinidad & Tobago.
I am Rachel Price and in no way have I ever been politically alligned to any politician nor political party.
I am Rachel Price and no one with the hope of winning can ever accuse me of racism against the Indo-Trinidadian.
I have no "Indo-Trini" friends, I have FRIENDS. I know not the race of my friends. Those that are in my circle are in my circle, Love has no race.
I have no "Indo-Trini" fans, I have FANS. I know not the race of those before me, I care not at all who is in my audience. They've come to be entertained.
I have no "Indo-Trini" haters, I have fans in denial who have no clue how much the vibrancy of their energy propels me forward.
bless.
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UML please stop taking every rumour, lie and concoction meant to sow racial disharmony posted on your UNC Facebook groups and bring them in tuner and pedaling them as the truth. The efforts of some of your fellow supporters are nothing less than seditious and I hope that they either act like patriotic citizens of T&T or move to some deserted island and make KPB their queen.
cnewsliveSEPTEMBER 14th, 2015: Cricket icon Brian Lara met with Dominica’s Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit today. Lara, who serving as Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley's Special Envoy, is in Dominica to hold discussions with PM Skerrit to determine how T&T can assist the country in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Erika, which devastated the island on August 27, killing over 20 persons. PM Skerrit posted the photos with that caption: "@BrianLara your presence here so soon after an Election gives us hope that we are not in this alone."
During their election campaign the PNM specifically stated that they will SOLVE crime, SOLVE corruption, make US$ AVAILABLE AS SOON AS they get into office, etc.
A PNM campaign promise already broken
Published:
Monday, September 14, 2015
With the swearing in of our new Cabinet, Dr Rowley has already broken one of his promises which he has been making since earlier this year, by appointing 18 of his 23 Members of Parliament (including himself) into government ministries. In a T&T Guardian article of April 27, Dr Rowley gave a commitment that “fewer MPs will be in the Cabinet to form the executive, so there are fewer MPs and that makes for a more efficient Cabinet dealing with policy and other serious matters.”
Now while this Cabinet is indeed smaller than the previous, the majority of people who form the Cabinet (78 per cent) were taken from the Lower House, whereas the People’s Partnership Cabinet only had between 40 per cent to 50 per cent of their Cabinet members chosen from the Lower House at any given time.
In addition to that, Dr Rowley spoke of the merits of having less Members of Parliament in Cabinet, citing more “accountability” and oversight from the House in government matters, as its increased availability by MPs to attend Parliamentary Committee meetings to deliver on that pledge.
But as it stands now, there are only five PNM MPs without a government portfolio (four if you deduct the one person who would fill the position of Deputy Speaker) and you begin to realise that even from the beginning of his party’s term in office, whatever was promised on the campaign trail heading into the elections are now dust in the wind.
Ravi Maharaj
http://m.guardian.co.tt/letters/2015-09 ... ady-broken
nismoid wrote:UML wrote:Kidnapping: #1
And 7 killings
Every time PNM in power there's elevated kidnappings, isn't it reasonable to assume then that the opposition who ever it might be are the ones responsible for the kidnappings in order to make the ruling party look bad? just sayin.
2 bodies found in our beautiful Tobago
1 body found in cargo container in Santa Cruz
Habit7 wrote:UML wrote:Lara in Dominica doing the work of the incompetent Minister of Foreign Affairs
UML in your reckless effort to discredit the PNM you seem to be unaware that this not Lara's first stint in diplomacy. Prior to this he accompanied Kamla on her trip to India as a sports ambassador.
McDonald: HDC ‘100 houses a week’ distribution put on hold
Published on Sep 15, 2015, 7:34 pm AST
By Kejan Haynes
Housing Minister Marlene McDonald says she’s given instructions to halt the 100 homes-a-week until Christmas distribution policy, which was started under the former People’s Partnership (PP) administration.
In August, then-housing minister Dr Roodal Moonilal said once the managing director and the chairman of the board of the Housing Development Corporation (HDC) remain...he hoped they’d distribute houses after the election.
But McDonald says she has to evaluate and assess what she has on hand before she could move forward.
“I gave instructions to the PS, well the former PS, that I want all distribution of housing on hold,” McDonald said yesterday. “I put a stop on the distribution until I assess. And that’s what this is all about this morning...understanding what the ministry is about in terms of the structure of the ministry and then we are going to go into those details as to the housing stock. ”
The Port of Spain South MP spoke to TV6 News just after moving into her new office at the Housing and Urban Development Ministry in Port of Spain.
She was meeting with her new permanent secretary Jocelyn Hunte and deputy PS Denise Duncan.
“As I said last week as I was being sworn in, I have to evaluate. I have to assess what I have on hand before we can move forward,” said McDonald.
She asked the public to be patient as it may take another week before the new housing distribution policy is announced.
McDonald’s other portfolio is urban development.
She said completing the government campus in Port of Spain is a top priority, as well as improving the inner city and east Port of Spain.
Going back on the 2020 development plan, Clifton Towers on St Paul Street was the first phase of redevelopment.
The previous People’s National Movement (PNM) government had allocated land on lower South Quay for the second phase of construction. The project was stopped by the PP administration and the land used for the now abandoned water detention pond, built by then-works and transport minister Jack Warner to alleviate flooding in the capital city.
“It’s now filled with water and grass and egrets. You know what supposed to have gone there? That was the second phase of the redevelopment of East Port of Spain. We were supposed to have done high-rise apartments there. And then, what we would’ve done when we completed there, we were going to remove those persons from Duncan Street, Nelson street and George Street and house them there.”
The third phase would have gone into the inner city with the reconstruction of Duncan, Nelson and George streets.
Those, she said, were the millennium development goals under the PNM.
McDonald lamented what she called neglect of East Port of Spain under the former administration. She gave the example of Plaisance Road in John John, where she said the state of the wooden apartments there would make some cry.
“I recalled for two years working with this ministry for homes to relocate those persons, it was never done and every time my constituents saw 100 homes being given out every week they called me and they pleaded and they cried,” McDonald said. “But I also want to say that a country’s resources belong to all. What we saw over the last five years was an inequitable distribution of resources. It will not happen under this administration.”
And while the PNM has been accused of limiting development to Port of Spain to the detriment of the South, McDonald promises the San Fernando Waterfront Project is still very much on the table.
“I think that it would be a nice face for San Fernando. I think the people would genuinely appreciate something like that,” she said.
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20150915 ... ut-on-hold
EmilioA wrote:200 billion dollars UML . 200 BILLION.
pete wrote:Hope they not reevaluating the lottery system to ensure only their supporters get houses. Hope that the people being allocated houses will continue to be photographed so we can see some transparency.
‘...Attack on Hindus in campaign’
Published on Jul 21, 2013, 10:20 pm AST
Updated on Jul 22, 2013, 5:08 pm AST
The Chaguanas West by-election campaign has “an undercurrent of an attack on the Hindu community”, United National Congress deputy political leader Dr Roodal Moonilal said yesterday.
“We will not see it at first sight...you don’t see the undercurrent so sometimes you can participate in your own denigration without knowing. It is not coincidental that there is an attack on the (children of Dr Suruj Rambachan and Chandresh Sharma)—a Hindu child. What they are trying to develop is the idea that if your children are successful they thief to get there... It is a way to demonise your community,” he said.
Moonilal and several of his Cabinet colleagues, including Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan, Transport Minister Chandresh Sharma and Food Production Minister Devant Maharaj, attended Sunday morning service at the Devi Temple, Caroni Savannah Road, Chaguanas, on the invitation of Maha Sabha secretary general Sat Maharaj.
He noted that the Land Rover sport utility vehicle (SUV) that had been leased through the Housing Development Company (HDC), a State enterprise under his purview, for his use was now “parked in a garage somewhere”.
“I driving the same vehicle for two years, a Rover SUV and is only when the campaign start and Jack Warner start campaigning they start attacking me for the vehicle. So I stop using it because I say I don’t want to distract from the campaign. It is now parked in a garage somewhere. It is the same money we paying every month and nobody saying anything. You can pay the same money every month once Roodal Moonilal not using it. It is the same money, you know, but I must not use it. I must still be on the bull-cart,” he said.
“If I use a Rover or a BMW, that is not for you, but if Keith Rowley was doing that before that is fine. That is good. What he is saying now in 2013 is put you back on that bison. They want you back there and want to use different strategies. This is a time of awakening for us. You must see what is happening. You must see the attack.”
He referred to his former Cabinet colleague, interim political leader of the Independent Liberal Party (ILP) Jack Warner only as “he”, saying that his supporters were “only putting mala (a Hindu garland) on this fella. They put about 20 mala on him, you couldn’t see his face. But when I look through the list of people recommended (in Chaguanas West) for housing I didn’t see anybody named Mala, you know”.
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/Att ... 82371.html
RASC wrote:They weren't calling for this before nor did they chastise their party for doing it... But whoops suddenly-we demand transparency.
We have an AG who never won a case before the Courts
UML wrote:
the entire interview was not played.
note the caption of the video
Redman wrote:UML wrote:AG Faris says he will NOT account to the people of this country the details of the Jack Warner extradition and it will be witheld from the public and be shrouded in secrecy.
#whatwevotedfor
#backtotheiroldways
#pnmwillneverchange
#promisedthemoonandstars
That's a lie....provide a link nah.
RASC wrote:No no leave her
This chick has the INCREDIBLE ability to misquote anyone ... I saw the clip myself but of course I was just waiting for uml to post... And of course she didn't disappoint.
Skills on a hundred trillion ain't go lie... Yuh good UML yuh real good
MARLENE MCDONALD MUST GO!
Her husband company registered AFTER Cheque issued to him and approved by Marlene .........This is FRAUD!!!!!!!
Hear this LIAR......."UNC Neglected Todd's Road ground for 35 years" UNC is only 26 yrs old and been in office for 10 yrs and started work on the ground, that's the only ground left to fix in La Horquetta/Talparo Constituency the other 9 already upgraded by the UNC
So with 20 murders in 8 days we seeing that the continuous call by the PNM for Coast Guard ships was not the answer to crime.
We had patrol boats all the time. Maybe it might be that ships docked do nothing?
Helen Drayton the impartial, politically neutral, unbiased "Independent Senator?"
I witnessed for my self equity in jobs and promotions of known PNM supporters under the PPG.
eliteauto wrote:Can someone explain what is there about an appointment as an Independent Senator that precludes one from taking up a state appointment after serving your term? I see some UNC supporters taking up issue with Helen Drayton's appointment, seems they are unable to discern that people can perform their functions impartially depending on the office they hold. Don't we expect the same from Judges, yet still they vote in elections don't they? BTW this isn't her first Board appointment
[/spoiler]Under PPG people got far greater opposition and have been removed for far less than that.
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· September 8 at 9:47pm · Edited ·
This is what happened in Moruga Tableland election night 7/9/2015 .
We Dont expect the media to air this and the PNM has not condemned it .
We wonder if the Caricom election observers have knowledge of this .?"
nervewrecker wrote:I get bann from both PNM and UNC pages. Seems truth hurts both sides.
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