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The_Honourable wrote:De Dragon wrote:The Prime Minister further stated then that he had no idea how corrupt the country was until after being elected as the country’s Prime Minister on September 7, 2015.
This asinine statement alone should disqualify JUHN Scarfy from holding ANY kind of office, especially the one of the PM. Wasn't this moron the one who all of a sudden claimed to be some kind of corruption buster when Manning was looking to jettison his sorry arse?
Is a play for dem pnm till ah dead to show that he innocent and he's trying to fight corruption
Yeah PNM getting de job doneBen_spanna wrote:So status? or everyone already forgot?
If the people want me, I’ll serve
Marlene on 2020 general election run
Ryan Hamilton-Davis
Port of Spain South MP Marlene McDonald said if her constituents still want her, she will put her name forward to the PNM to contest that seat in the 2020 general election. She has been the area’s MP since 2007.
Mc Donald told this to Newsday on Sunday at her “Christmas extravaganza” at her office on Piccadilly Street in Port of Spain where she and City Corporation chairman Wendell Stephen distributed 350 gift bags to people.
Asked whether or not she would consider continuing as PoS South MP, given her recent legal troubles and also being removed from multiple positions in both the PNM and Cabinet, McDonald said the decision on whether she remains as MP does not lie with her.
“That will be determined by the executive of Port of Spain South, that is not my determination. The constituency will determine that, not me. Once the people ask for me...fine, not a problem.”
Stephen said the event yesterday follows Fathers’ Day and Mothers’ Day shows both held at City Hall; a book bag distribution drive which McDonald holds annually and a Christmas dinner which she also hosts each year. “This is just another cog in that wheel of what she has done for the constituency over the years,” Stephen said.
Mc Donald told Newsday her community events start from the beginning of the year with a calypso show on the Picadilly Greens and ends with the Christmas dinner. The gift bags distributed yesterday included towels, sheets, wash rags and a red T-shirt. Mc Donald said the gifts are usually greatly appreciated by her constituents.
“It may seem simple to those who could afford a little more, but to them, it means a lot,” she said. McDonald added, soon after this gift distribution, 300 Christmas hampers will also be shared among PoS constituents. Mc Donald said the events help to join communities in the PoS area, and creates a sense of unity in an area once considered a crime “hot spot”.
“In terms of the crime, how long have you heard about bacchanal and confusion in these areas? I am happy to say when we host these functions, it is the bonding of our people. It is the coming together of our community. It is ordinary people doing extraordinary things, like Obama said. We come together and we work,” she said.
“There is a connection with me and behind the bridge,” she said. “In 2007 when the call was made for an MP, there was never one who came from East Port of Spain. All the representatives for Port of Spain South came from in front the bridge. I am the first one who came from behind the bridge. Therefore if you talk to people like “Twiggy” they would tell you she is from the hood. She is one of us. She is from the ghetto,” McDonald said.
In March 2016, McDonald was removed from her post as housing minister, after questions were raised over arrangements involving her common-law husband Michael Carew and an HDC house at Fidelis Heights, St Augustine. Questions were also raised about donations of $375,000 and $200,000 from that ministry to the Calabar Foundation while she was still in charge of the ministry. Carew was said to be a Calabar director at the time.
In 2017, Mc Donald was removed as Public Utilities Minister after her close friend and Sealots businessman Cedric Burke was allowed in at the Office of the President for McDonald’s swearing-in days earlier. This year, she was slapped with several criminal charges which are pending before the courts.
vaiostation wrote:Marlene could shiit in her constituent mouth, and they go vote for she.
Well Redman , eliteauto and rspann love dem broDizzy28 wrote:The PNM is such a shameless and corrupt party they may very well put her back to run in the next GE
zoom rader wrote:Well Redman , eliteauto and rspann love dem broDizzy28 wrote:The PNM is such a shameless and corrupt party they may very well put her back to run in the next GE
Redman defends dem
Elite advise dem
Rspann gets rich from dem
Yup cause PNM is not for the small man or seeing about their ppl bro.Dizzy28 wrote:zoom rader wrote:Well Redman , eliteauto and rspann love dem broDizzy28 wrote:The PNM is such a shameless and corrupt party they may very well put her back to run in the next GE
Redman defends dem
Elite advise dem
Rspann gets rich from dem
All good business people get richer when they in power. Nothing new there.
Every one of my friends who are businesspersons say they do better when PNM in power than UNC. And this is across a wide range of businesses such as civil contracting, trucking/aggregate and sand sales, retail sales, customs brokerage etc.
Ok so Darrell den?rspann wrote:Allyuh doh be on Marlene nah. She is ah part ah de foundation of the PNM. We cyar just kick she out.
hydroep wrote:"Slim" Shady's back. 100% certain if she goes up she'll win...If the people want me, I’ll serve
Marlene on 2020 general election run
Ryan Hamilton-Davis
McDonald holds annually and a Christmas dinner which she also hosts each year.
her community events start from the beginning of the year with a calypso show on the Picadilly Greens and ends with the Christmas dinner. The gift bags distributed yesterday included towels, sheets, wash rags and a red T-shirt. Mc Donald said the gifts are usually greatly appreciated by her constituents.
300 Christmas hampers will also be shared among PoS constituents. Mc Donald said the events help to join communities in the PoS area, and creates a sense of unity in an area once considered a crime “hot spot”.
I am happy to say when we host these functions, it is the bonding of our people. It is the coming together of our community. It is ordinary people doing extraordinary things,
https://newsday.co.tt/2019/12/09/if-the-people-want-me-ill-serve/
Slartibartfast wrote:hydroep wrote:"Slim" Shady's back. 100% certain if she goes up she'll win...If the people want me, I’ll serve
Marlene on 2020 general election run
Ryan Hamilton-Davis
McDonald holds annually and a Christmas dinner which she also hosts each year.
her community events start from the beginning of the year with a calypso show on the Picadilly Greens and ends with the Christmas dinner. The gift bags distributed yesterday included towels, sheets, wash rags and a red T-shirt. Mc Donald said the gifts are usually greatly appreciated by her constituents.
300 Christmas hampers will also be shared among PoS constituents. Mc Donald said the events help to join communities in the PoS area, and creates a sense of unity in an area once considered a crime “hot spot”.
I am happy to say when we host these functions, it is the bonding of our people. It is the coming together of our community. It is ordinary people doing extraordinary things,
https://newsday.co.tt/2019/12/09/if-the-people-want-me-ill-serve/
I am not a fan of Marlene McDonald but I commend her for these activities. I respect these actions. So keep that in mind when I say what I think is wrong.
1. I don't think a person charged with corruption should be allowed to hold any public office or have any input in the spending of money raised from taxes, political campaigns or non-profit organisations.
2. I think it is a huge problem that actions as small as this can have such a large impact on a community that they will overlook just about everything a person has done and still call for that person to represent them. That seems like a failure of the state to me.
Some places need community programs more than others because there are people that need to depend on public assistance and those areas should be better funded (think Sea Lots Vs. Valpark). No community should be living in such abject poverty that an annual hamper with some towels and sheets is enough to keep them fully under your control.
BTW, there are ways of tackling this that don't involve relying on a welfare state but I think that idea would be even less popular with capitalists.
De Dragon wrote:I agree with you on point # 1 Slarty, BUT if these people so dotish not to realize the sheit they are living in, and have been living in for decades, and continue to support Two Plate, gangsters, and the PNM, well FACK 'EM!!!
Dragon on the ballSlartibartfast wrote:De Dragon wrote:I agree with you on point # 1 Slarty, BUT if these people so dotish not to realize the sheit they are living in, and have been living in for decades, and continue to support Two Plate, gangsters, and the PNM, well FACK 'EM!!!
The truth is, your logic makes perfect sense, so I can't argue against that.
But I'm looking at the bigger picture. I wonder if I would have been just as "dotish" if I grew up in a similar environment. I've seen qualified people with good jobs that can reason their way out of a wet paper bag and I've met labourers with zero qualifications but a driver's license that keep me on my toes.
Everyone has a symbiotic relationship with their environment. The problem is those that can change the environment (government and policy makers) blame the people and the people blame the environment, but hardly anyone wants to change what is under their control.
The government can inly slightly change the people but they can change the environment. The people can only slighty change their environment but they can change themselves.
Just google the relationship between parental affluency and childhood success. Look at how "successful" Donald Trump and his children are.
Anyway, like I said, you not wrong, so I cannot change your mind. This is just my opinion.
Nice you getting the point and it all roots to our backward education system. They are taught not to question things and take it as it is.Slartibartfast wrote:I think they are kept in whatever state they are in on purpose so that they are easier to control. Give them handouts and patronise them enough so they think you care about them but don't give them any real opportunity or education to make them think for themselves or (god forbid) go off and take advantage of better opportunities on their own. That destroying your vote.
The UNC does nothing to help them either. They need PNM to be the only other option. Third parties are the real opposition. Consider PNM/UNC as one party and everything they do makes perfect sense.zoom rader wrote:Nice you getting the point and it all roots to our backward education system. They are taught not to question things and take it as it is.Slartibartfast wrote:I think they are kept in whatever state they are in on purpose so that they are easier to control. Give them handouts and patronise them enough so they think you care about them but don't give them any real opportunity or education to make them think for themselves or (god forbid) go off and take advantage of better opportunities on their own. That destroying your vote.
What you read in the PNM media houses has to be true.
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