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It wasn't a new airport, it was a new terminal.Dizzy28 wrote:When the PP contains the UNC as a major member of its team and they gave this country the new Piarco Airport and its associated scandals and overruns, I find this statement to be spurious at best.
Habit7 wrote:It wasn't a new airport, it was a new terminal.Dizzy28 wrote:When the PP contains the UNC as a major member of its team and they gave this country the new Piarco Airport and its associated scandals and overruns, I find this statement to be spurious at best.
Habit7 wrote:...Expect for offshore workers, private jet travelers and other civil aviation enthusiasts.
Other than that PNM wasted money in refurbishing a national landmark that hosts foreign dignitaries who we hope will invest in TT. This is surely graver than the Piarco Airport scandal.
Dianne out of election race
...second PNM candidate to withdraw
Gail Alexander
Published:
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Another People’s National Movement (PNM) candidate, Dianne Baldeo-Chadeesingh, has withdrawn from the general election race, the Opposition confirmed yesterday.
Baldeo-Chadeesingh, a PNM Senator, had been chosen for the Chaguanas East constituency last December but the PNM issued a press release yesterday saying she had “withdrawn her candidacy due to personal reasons.”
She did not answer repeated cellphone calls yesterday on what prompted her decision, including whether it was due to external factors (lack of support on the “ground”) or internal reasons (issues within the PNM).
Chaguanas East, among seats considered as marginal, is currently represented by People’s Partnership MP Stephen Cadiz.
Baldeo-Chadeesingh is the second PNM candidate who has withdrawn in as many weeks.
Recently, PNM Tobago East chairman Wendell Berkley, who was initially selected for Tobago East from five other nominees withdrew, also citing “personal reasons.” He was replaced by Ayanna Webster-Roy.
Berkley has declined to detail his reasons for withdrawing but says he will continue supporting the PNM’s campaign.
But Tobago PNM sources yesterday said two polls which had been done prior to selecting Berkely did not favour his chances but he was still selected and later withdrew. Some Tobago PNMites had reportedly disapproved of his candidacy, they said.
On Baldeo-Chadeesingh’s withdrawal, the PNM statement added that the PNM screening team would meet the Chaguanas East executive next week to select candidates from among the nominees who were already screened.
The PNM said Baldeo-Chadeesingh continued as a PNM Senator and “remains fully committed to the PNM’s aims and ideals.”
Baldeo-Chadeesingh had been tipped to be a general election candidate since she was brought into the Senate in December 2013, when PNM’s Senate team was changed.
Following her selection as candidate, she had said her Senate tenure had given her more confidence to face the polls, she was no stranger to Chaguanas East and had heard people were not satisfied with Cadiz’s representation and had hoped to change that.
Fresh process
Yesterday, PNM field officer Indar Parasram, who was Baldeo-Chadeesingh’s Chaguanas East campaign manager, said there were six other nominees who had faced screening unsuccessfully.
They include a teacher, a businessman, a doctor, an accountant and a councillor. He said he assumed they would now be re-screened.
Parasram said Baldeo-Chadeesingh’s campaign team had completed 40 per cent of walkabouts in the area and she “was well on her way to victory.” He said he had returned from New York recently and news of her withdrawal had now reached him.
“But it’s not a setback. We have done our homework in this constituency,” he added.
Asked about reports that the Independent Liberal Party’s Jack Warner may seek an arrangement to contest that seat or put up a candidate there aiding PNM’s chances in the PP-held constituency, Parasram (who is assistant campaign manager of PNM’s national T&T election campaign) said:
“We have no arrangement with anyone. Whoever comes up, we are fighting them. We always contest all seats. PNM fights alone, loses alone, wins alone and governs alone and definitely we will win alone.”
PNM PRO Faris Al-Rawi, Baldeo-Chadeesingh’s Senate colleague, was unavailable to shed light on her decision since he is out of T&T until tomorrow, his office confirmed.
Baldeo-Chadeesingh and Berkley had been among 34 PNM candidates announced just before the end of last month. These comprise largely professionals, including retired security sector officials.
The PNM, which had projected completing screening by the end of last month, still has to finalise candidates for Diego Martin Central and San Juan/Barataria, as well as Chaguanas East, to complete its 41 candidates.
Recently, the PNM rejected the four Diego Martin Central nominee, including MP Amery Browne, and twice rejected nominees from San Juan/Barataria.
PNM officials hinted “new faces” were expected in Diego Martin Central and San Juan/Barataria.http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2015-04- ... ction-race
Amery supporters storm PNM meeting: 'We are hurting'
Richard Lord
Published:
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Claiming there was “dictatorship” in the Diego Martin Central constituency executive, scores of angry People’s National Movement (PNM) members forced a scheduled meeting of the executive to be shifted to a different venue yesterday.
The meeting had been called to weigh fresh candidate options to go before the PNM screening committee in the wake of the rejection last week of incumbent MP Amery Browne.
But the constituents, reportedly upset at Browne’s general election snub by the Diego Martin executive, reportedly disrupted the meeting at the Diamond Vale Community Centre, forcing the executive to move to a new venue due to the uncomfortable situation in which they were put.
Sources told the T&T Guardian that Browne, who got no votes from the Diego Martin executive during the screening process, was neither aware of the meeting nor was he invited to it.
But a vocal group of supporters said they got word of the meeting via a text message and felt it was necessary to attend.
The mainly female group which assembled outside the community centre said they were initially told it was a constituency meeting and felt they should attend to voice their anger over Browne’s rejection but they said when they entered the facility they were told that it was not a constituency meeting but a meeting of the executive.
Not wanting any confrontation or bacchanal, Irene Hinds, vice chair of the constituency and PNM operations officer, and others left for the nearby office of Diamond Vale councillor Gail La Touche, where they conducted the meeting.
Constituency member Emerita Sambrano said they were supporting Browne because he remained a “very hard working MP.”
Another party supporter shouted: “We are hurting.”
Later the group shouted: “Dictators!”
Another upset member, Joy Belfon, said it was “unfair” for the executive to control the process in the manner it did. She said the constituency was not only two or three people, adding the “dictatorship” must not be allowed to continue.
“The dictatorship has to stop,” she demanded as others all applauded.
She insisted: “What goes around will come back around 500 million times with a different force.”
She stressed there was “dictatorship in the constituency.”
“Why must one set of people dictate who represents us in Diego Martin Central?” another supporter shouted.
The executive meeting ended shortly before 8 pm.
Chairman of the constituency Osborne Charles offered “no comment” as he departed.
But Hinds said: “We had an executive meeting to decide where we go from here.”
She said what was discussed at the meeting was private and the chairmen and secretaries of all party groups in the Diego Martin constituency would be told of their decision tomorrow.
The constituency was given until Monday to find a new candidate.
No comment
Contacted last night, Browne declined comment.
However, Browne said last week that although he respected the decision of the screening committee he intended to run again and hoped “that ultimately the best decision will be made.”
“My life has been one of service to the less-fortunate since long before I entered politics and my commitment and sense of duty to my constituents and to the people of Trinidad and Tobago remain as strong and binding today as ever before,” he said. He did say, however, that he was still very committed to the party.
“Diego Martin Central remains critical to the fortunes of the People’s National Movement in this coming election and I am committed to playing a role in ensuring our success,” he added.
Also contacted last night, PNM general secretary Ashton Ford said the executive meeting was called because the members had a limited time to do its work. It was given until Monday to find a new candidate to be screened for the seat, he added.
http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/2015-04- ... re-hurting
What did anything I said have to do with Caricom?zoom rader wrote:Habit7 wrote:...Expect for offshore workers, private jet travelers and other civil aviation enthusiasts.
Other than that PNM wasted money in refurbishing a national landmark that hosts foreign dignitaries who we hope will invest in TT. This is surely graver than the Piarco Airport scandal.
Caricom don't invest in trini, they take money away
Habit7 wrote:It wasn't a new airport, it was a new terminal.Dizzy28 wrote:When the PP contains the UNC as a major member of its team and they gave this country the new Piarco Airport and its associated scandals and overruns, I find this statement to be spurious at best.
zoom rader wrote:Habit7 wrote:...Expect for offshore workers, private jet travelers and other civil aviation enthusiasts.
Other than that PNM wasted money in refurbishing a national landmark that hosts foreign dignitaries who we hope will invest in TT. This is surely graver than the Piarco Airport scandal.
Caricom don't invest in trini, they take money away
zoom rader wrote:Habit7 wrote:...Expect for offshore workers, private jet travelers and other civil aviation enthusiasts.
Other than that PNM wasted money in refurbishing a national landmark that hosts foreign dignitaries who we hope will invest in TT. This is surely graver than the Piarco Airport scandal.
Caricom don't invest in trini, they take money away
Dizzy28 wrote:zoom rader wrote:Habit7 wrote:...Expect for offshore workers, private jet travelers and other civil aviation enthusiasts.
Other than that PNM wasted money in refurbishing a national landmark that hosts foreign dignitaries who we hope will invest in TT. This is surely graver than the Piarco Airport scandal.
Caricom don't invest in trini, they take money away
Our balance of trade with Caricom is heavily skewed in our favour. Surely all those exports that goes to Caricom directly and indirectly leads to investment within Trinidad and Tobago.
zoom rader wrote:Dizzy28 wrote:zoom rader wrote:Habit7 wrote:...Expect for offshore workers, private jet travelers and other civil aviation enthusiasts.
Other than that PNM wasted money in refurbishing a national landmark that hosts foreign dignitaries who we hope will invest in TT. This is surely graver than the Piarco Airport scandal.
Caricom don't invest in trini, they take money away
Our balance of trade with Caricom is heavily skewed in our favour. Surely all those exports that goes to Caricom directly and indirectly leads to investment within Trinidad and Tobago.
So caricom buys trini kiss cakes.
I guess you driving a Range Rover from the sales of Kiss Cakes.
On the plus side they buy trini stuff and we stuck with illegal caricom nationals .
UML wrote:
Interesting
Habit7 wrote:PP supporters not accustomed to politicians stepping down without clouds of allegations over their heads.
27 ministers fired from the PP and it still strong but 2 candidates step down gracefully so PNM going to crash and burn.
rfari wrote:Habit7 wrote:PP supporters not accustomed to politicians stepping down without clouds of allegations over their heads.
27 ministers fired from the PP and it still strong but 2 candidates step down gracefully so PNM going to crash and burn.
Exactly. Better now with the votes of a handful of executive members than later with 10000+ people that voted for you.
Growley switched it up this evening with his address. Very little room for nit-picking his comments afterwards.
dougla_boy wrote:he doh need that....allyuh doing a fine job already
dougla_boy wrote:wtf....LOLOL
how dis man go tell me stick to hoes?
i change meh life dan
ABA Trading LTD wrote:Is 27 ministers get fired?
supercharged turbo wrote:Anyone can explain this next youth prime minister thing they advertising on radio?
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