PNM in Gov't(2015-2020)

[Gladiator]

Budget time...

[shake d livin wake d dead]

Is all kinda memes with this man yes

[ProtonPowder]

Still no property tax in 2020 or 2021.
Again, no retroactive taxes.

[K74T]

Colin Partap jump ship from UNC

[aaron17]

And nobody aint rioting yet...stupid trini ppl.

[The_Honourable]

LOL Partap smart... he would not get fired for driving under the influence this rounds, plus pnmites can't bad talk him anymore about what he did

[shake d livin wake d dead]

Partap is a woft...he could never win cumuto manzan on a pnm ticket...that is a unc stronghold...interesting to see if he gets to fight general

[Rovin]

wtf , in panday voice "neemakaram" !

tort he ride out of politics long time , since he eh want to take d breathalyzer man fade out like a drained battery

some of dem come like in d movies yes , like when good cop gone bad & join up with d criminals .....

[shake d livin wake d dead]

Partap won in 2015 on his father's strength...he proved how useless he is while he was in office...he joined PNM cuz kams aint want nothing to do with him...at least he didnt form his own party...smh

[Rovin]

reading this assness u does say WTF , this man 4get d past history of pnm , makes u wonder if colin now born yes ......


http://www.guardian.co.tt/news/collin-p ... a7b61ac5e8

Sunday, October 6, 2019

Collin Partap joins PNM, Gyspy being wooed

They were prime movers in the UNC but for­mer UNC Cu­mu­to-Man­zanil­la MP Collin Par­tap start­ed work­ing with PNM's Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment cam­paign two weeks ago, while ex-UNC Ma­yaro MP Win­ston "Gyp­sy" Pe­ters is be­ing wooed by the PNM to take Ma­yaro in the gen­er­al polls.

Both spoke to the Guardian be­tween Fri­day and Sat­ur­day.

Spec­u­la­tion has been mount­ing about Pe­ters and PNM's gen­er­al elec­tion thrust since he was ap­point­ed Na­tion­al Car­ni­val Com­mis­sion (NCC) chair­man in April 2018. He threw more light on the sit­u­a­tion last Fri­day. (see box)

To­mor­row's Bud­get de­liv­ery for the fi­nal year of the term and de­bate of an Elec­tion and Bound­aries Com­mis­sion or­der to fa­cil­i­tate bound­ary shifts and oth­er changes need­ed for Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment polls will in­for­mal­ly sig­nal the start of the elec­tion year. Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment polls are ex­pect­ed af­ter No­vem­ber 28 when the LG term ends. PN­Mites spec­u­late elec­tions may be in ear­ly De­cem­ber.

The PNM fi­nalised out­stand­ing LG can­di­dates last Fri­day and will be­gin screen­ing for four more gen­er­al elec­tion ar­eas af­ter the Bud­get de­bate. PNM al­ready has gen­er­al elec­tion can­di­dates for Pointe-a-Pierre (Daniel Dook­ie), San Juan/Barataria (Ndale Young) and Ch­agua­nas East (Clarence Ramb­harat). UNC has com­plet­ed LG can­di­dates and will close gen­er­al elec­tion nom­i­na­tions for 21 PNM-held seats on Oc­to­ber 24.

Par­tap, 46, aired his dis­en­chant­ment with the UNC in a May Sun­day Guardian sto­ry where he was mum on be­com­ing PNM's gen­er­al elec­tion can­di­date for Cu­mu­to-Man­zanil­la. But last Wednes­day, Par­tap showed up in com­pa­ny with the Prime Min­is­ter and oth­er gov­ern­ment min­is­ters for crick­et at the Queen's Park Oval. In the VIP box with them was for­mer PP min­is­ter Em­manuel George.

George, the broth­er of HDC chair­man New­man George, says, "I just went to watch crick­et and I watched crick­et. That's all. I have no po­lit­i­cal am­bi­tions re­gard­ing PNM. I go every year to watch crick­et in the Oval with all kinds of peo­ple, you'd have seen I wasn't talk­ing to a lot of peo­ple. I was fo­cused on the game."

Par­tap, how­ev­er, con­firmed he has been in­volved with PNM for over a year, though silent on who re­cruit­ed him. Since last month he has been help­ing PNM co-or­di­nate ar­eas in his for­mer con­stituen­cy which are un­der the San­gre Grande cor­po­ra­tion. Yes­ter­day he was at meet­ings in Cu­mu­to-Tamana.

With the PP Gov­ern­ment, Par­tap was fired in 2012 as a min­is­ter in the Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­istry af­ter re­fus­ing to do a breath test. He was charged with Dri­ving Un­der the In­flu­ence in 2013 and fined, re­main­ing a back­bencher for the rest of the PP's term.

Par­tap is one of sev­er­al "work­ing" on the grounds in Grande, a key mar­gin­al cor­po­ra­tion where PNM and UNC tied in the 2016 polls. PNM ex­ec­u­tive mem­ber In­dar Paras­ram is co-or­di­na­tor, but for­mer To­co MP Roger Boynes is al­so in­volved. Boynes, resur­fac­ing in PNM a few months ago, fo­cus­es on Man­zanil­la work­ing via vil­lage coun­cils to "train" res­i­dents how to ben­e­fit from gov­ern­ment in­fra­struc­ture. Boynes said he was "com­plete­ly closed" to be­ing To­co's gen­er­al elec­tion can­di­date.

Par­tap, mean­while, re­mains silent on whether he will be­come PNM's Cu­mu­to-Man­zanil­la gen­er­al elec­tion can­di­date. He has not filled out a PNM mem­ber­ship form yet, but he said he will at some point be­cause he has made a "val­ues-based de­ci­sion" stand­ing against cor­rup­tion, pover­ty and crime.

"My mind's made up on help­ing them for lo­cal polls but I don't want to rush in­to elect­ed pol­i­tics and all that dra­ma—let's see what hap­pens ahead. I want PNM to win lo­cal elec­tions and San­gre Grande. PNM's at the fore­front of the fight against cor­rup­tion and who­ev­er fights cor­rup­tion I'll be on their side."


Par­tap said his fa­ther, Har­ry—whom he suc­ceed­ed as MP—sup­ports him, "He sup­ports any par­ty fight­ing cor­rup­tion. He had sent let­ters to the ed­i­tor call­ing on UNC's leader to re­move Ma­yaro cor­po­ra­tion chair­man Glen Ram when he was charged, but noth­ing was done. We were both dis­ap­point­ed when (Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar) didn't do the ho­n­ourable thing, re­move Ram and tack­le al­leged cor­rup­tion. The Con­sti­tu­tion says you're in­no­cent un­til proven guilty, but it's not ac­cept­able to be in charge of pub­lic mon­ey with a charge like that over­head."

Par­tap was loud in praise of PM Kei­th Row­ley, "He's ded­i­cat­ed to fight­ing cor­rup­tion and putting T&T back on track. When he took of­fice he faced low oil prices, mount­ing pub­lic de­bate and oth­er prob­lems. So far he's dealt with the is­sues in­clud­ing crime, putting Gary (Grif­fith) as Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er. He'd done what he has to do—what was right for the last four years. That's the kind of leader I'd like to sup­port."

By con­trast, he said UNC was in "a tail­spin." UNC deputy leader Kadi­jah Ameen—whom UNC of­fi­cials hint is "work­ing" the Cu­mu­to ar­eas—didn't an­swer calls yes­ter­day.



Gyp­sy wooed by PNM for Ma­yaro

His name is be­ing heard the loud­est among pos­si­ble PNM can­di­dates for Ma­yaro for gen­er­al elec­tions—and for­mer UNC Ma­yaro MP Win­ston "Gyp­sy" Pe­ters isn't closed to ap­proach­es.

Pe­ters was UNC's Ma­yaro MP from 2007 to 2015 but wasn't picked for the 2015 polls. Ma­yaro is cur­rent­ly held by UNC's Rush­ton Paray, a for­mer PNM mem­ber.

PNM of­fi­cials said an­oth­er per­son tipped for the area is a Ma­yaro busi­ness­man who had worked with the PNM's 2015 cam­paign. But Pe­ters is so far a fron­trun­ner. Con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cials con­firmed he has been ap­proached by mem­bers.

Pe­ters, 66, said he still thinks of Ma­yaro as his turf. "I'm a politi­cian and a ca­lyp­son­ian by pro­fes­sion which al­so makes me a born politi­cian. I don't know about run­ning for of­fice, but I'm not fin­ished with pol­i­tics.

"We're all politi­cians to some de­gree. So, I'm open to any ap­proach­es. I'm not closed to any ap­proach­es (to con­test), I'm open to any­thing that will help my coun­try."

UNC's Paray (like Par­tap) had un­suc­cess­ful­ly re­quest­ed UNC re­move Ram. He didn't an­swer calls.

[Blaze d Chalice]

Like a man see the light and made the better choice.

[Redress10]

Kamla needs to go and take her band of misfits with her such as Barry and the rest. As long as she in charge Unc done and is PNM by default. Sad to say.

[De Dragon]

Partap, like any common mongrel dog, will eat its own vomit to gain the Master's favour, just like Kelvin Ramnath did with Panday in the UNC 1.0

[Gladiator]

Kamla needs to go and take her band of misfits with her such as Barry and the rest. As long as she in charge Unc done and is PNM by default. Sad to say.

This rounds i think the hatred of Rowley is greater than the hatred for Kamla... this would be the election of elections. Too close to call!!!

[sMASH]

Kamla needs to go and take her band of misfits with her such as Barry and the rest. As long as she in charge Unc done and is PNM by default. Sad to say.

This rounds i think the hatred of Rowley is greater than the hatred for Kamla... this would be the election of elections. Too close to call!!!

the love for PNM is greater than the love for unc.

[The_Honourable]

Kamla needs to go and take her band of misfits with her such as Barry and the rest. As long as she in charge Unc done and is PNM by default. Sad to say.

This rounds i think the hatred of Rowley is greater than the hatred for Kamla... this would be the election of elections. Too close to call!!!

the love for PNM is greater than the love for unc.

PNM brand to be exact. Many pnmites don't like Growlers but they don't play with their brand. Syrians knew this for decades hence why they "invest" in the party as an insurance policy. Rowley himself know many don't like him but he also knows that he's safe.

[sMASH]

the individual is nothing, but the tribe must prevail.

[shake d livin wake d dead]

Seeing that 3/4 the population predicting an election budget...wah allyuh looking for???? Tbh, I cant think of anything to benefit me

[sMASH]

increase in OPT, further attrition of the fuel subsidy.

[sMASH]

oh, earmark of a new stadium sumwhere. probably toco.

[shake d livin wake d dead]

man still rambling on...1hr later

[bluefete]

man still rambling on...1hr later

Cliffs: We is the bestest PNM govament EVER!!!!!

[shake d livin wake d dead]

well, he did blame Kamla...predicted

[shake d livin wake d dead]

Great is the pnm next year....they just sealed victory

[zoom rader]

Great is the pnm next year....they just sealed victory

Eliteauto and rspann is well pleased

[eliteauto]

Great is the pnm next year....they just sealed victory

Eliteauto and rspann is well pleased

Please note some of the projects/measures come to fruition in 2021-2022 dat is confidence

[aaron17]

We getting led bulbs for cars too right?

[linton]

Nobody is protesting. That means the people are happy ,not so?

[shake d livin wake d dead]

Almost 3/4 of this man are expected to be completed after 2020...so what is there to see between 2015-20...not one MC...you all did nothing

[zoom rader]

Great is the pnm next year....they just sealed victory

Eliteauto and rspann is well pleased

Please note some of the projects/measures come to fruition in 2021-2022 dat is confidence

Yep lots of stupid people still in Trini