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janfar wrote:
Tear it up Kubs
TriP wrote:in other news..
Errol Fabien wrote:Don't kill the messenger Madame Prime Minister, pay attention to the message Dr.Kublalsingh is bringing.
Soul Collector wrote:Stop thinking about the MAN, Wayne...
...His message is the only important thing...
janfar wrote:
Tear it up Kubs
man gotta eat even if he hiding and doing it .desifemlove wrote:I bet plenty people in Arima, 'Puna, Town, Chaguanas and Couva looking forward to quicker trips to Debe for doubles or Icacos for a lime......
Story Created: Sep 20, 2014 at 9:29 PM ECT
Story Updated: Sep 20, 2014 at 9:29 PM ECT
Hunger strikes are curious things. There is nothing logical about them. Where human instinct suggests living to fight another day, the hunger striker selects the option of dying to fight another day.
What could be more perverse than negotiating one’s own survival with the prospect of one’s own death? And yet, for most hunger strikers, death is not the destination in their journey of self-denial. Not surprisingly, many hunger strikers who actually proceed to death have been long-term prisoners already contending with the death of freedom lost.
For those in the land of the free, however, the power of the hunger strike lies in the theatrical unfolding of a process that opens lightly, one clear bright day, and moves along casually until, like a sudden noose around our collective throats, our breath is caught by the horror before us.
Wayne Kublalsingh’s second hunger strike is clearly not about death, even if there is a more than even chance of him dying. It is a high-risk gamble that locks him in a dance with the Prime Minister. When the music stops, who will be standing is anybody’s guess.
These two have a history, divided now only by her rise to office. Before the election of 2010, they had been comrades in the common cause against smelter plants in Chatham, Cedros, he as leader of the environmental lobby and she as Leader of the Opposition.
In 2005, while Kublalsingh was consumed by smelter protests, she and the UNC were beginning to engage the Debe-South Oropouche community’s emerging anxiety about the highway passing through their area. On September 6, 2005, her Cabinet henchman, MP Roodal Moonilal, led the community in a protest march on Trintoplan, the Tacarigua company then conducting technical surveys in the highway area.
A Newsday report says that two days after the protest, Dr Moonilal sat with officials of Trintoplan and the Ministry of Works and raised the residents’ concerns about “lack of consultation and communication”. According to the newspaper report: “MP Moonilal asked residents to present their own ideas by way of an alternative pathway. Moonilal called on the ministry to search for a pathway that would result in minimum relocation of the residents.”
Here, then, lies the genesis of the idea of re-routing the highway, planted by none other than Roodal Moonilal who would soon graduate to chairman of the “Debe to San Francique Action Committee” lobbying against the highway.
Later, in a single bound from Opposition to Government, the same Moonilal would dismiss protesting mothers of the group as “bags of aloo” while Persad-Bissessar slipped past with police escort.
It is worth noting that Wayne Kublalsingh did not enter the highway re-route issue until late 2011, well after the community found itself up the political creek, with the UNC having turned coat on the highway once in office, leaving them without a paddle of representation by which time a critical window for appealing the Certificate of Environmental Clearance had been closed.
Even supporters of the Debe to Mon Desir segment of the highway should recognise that the core issue here is not about the highway at all, but about accountable representation. On whatever side of the highway we stand, we should still be able to recognise our common cause against a political system of power that is concentrated at the top and denied below.
The Highway Re-Route Movement is not alone as victims of the abuse of State power. The list is as long as our history and forever growing. Consider the Save-Our-Orange Grove Savannah Committee now fighting a dogged and expensive legal battle to protect its savannah from a Government that simply refuses to consult. This afternoon they take their cause to the People’s Climate March behind Stollmeyer’s Castle. Then there is the Alfred family of Perseverance, Couva, known as “The Original Jab-Jabs” who woke up one morning to discover that a small plot of State land to which they have first claim was within pouncing reach of a UNC financier brazenly fencing off acres of State land on unknown authority.
And, of course, there is the constitutional coup, as Michael Harris so correctly described the Government’s exercise of raw power in changing the voting system.
On Tuesday evening at six, citizens who will not be denied their right to a say on the Constitution (Amendment) Bill 2014 will don black and gather opposite Memorial Park to send their message to President’s House.
And so it goes, the story of us, going back to over 200 years, people in perpetual contestation with power, seeing no choice but to resort to unconventional methods of self-representation.
In this second incarnation as hunger striker, Wayne Kublalsingh’s protest offers starvation as a symbol of our common deprivation and weaponises our impotence against power. Like the lone Chinese protestor defying a military tank, it is at once illogical and powerful, with the potential for becoming increasingly so with each passing day.
Wayne Kublalsingh may believe he has good reason to gamble with his life and win. By ascribing her resistance to the influence of others, he is giving the Prime Minister space for changing course on the highway as he tries to get her into his lane. At this stage, no outcome is cast in stone. As our latest personification of maximum and arbitrary power, the PM will change her mind on anything if her party’s polling indicates the need. For now, the only thing of consequence is winning the next election.
By that thinking, Wayne Kublalsingh’s life now depends on whether the majority can find enough common cause with the betrayed people of Debe-Mon Desir to send the Government a message.
TriniAutoMart wrote:Was the Armstrong Report signed?
No one wanted to put their signature to the report.
Has it been signed now by Dr. Armstrong?
How much does Kubby charge for the hunger strike part of the protest? Or is that included in the initial cost?
TriniAutoMart wrote:Was the Armstrong Report signed?
No one wanted to put their signature to the report.
Has it been signed now by Dr. Armstrong?
How much does Kubby charge for the hunger strike part of the protest? Or is that included in the initial cost?
Conclusion
The Trinidad and Tobago Constitution guarantees certain rights and freedoms which are considered
fundamental to the operation of a democratic society. Section 4 of the Constitution guarant
ees the right of enjoyment of property and the right not to be deprived thereof except by due process of the law. It follows that there is no breach of a person‘s constitutional rights if that person‘s property is acquired in strict compliance with the law and that such person receives adequate compensation, including consideration of trade offs. A significant concern with the Debe to Mon Desir Highway is whether or not the lawful authority responsible for this large public expenditure is conforming to due
process, including observance of various oversight statutory requirements for environmental management, the development of land, and due consideration of socio economic impacts of the affected persons.
The HRC found that there were significant shortcomings which warrant further interrogation to determine
the way forward. The complex and sensitive issues involved in this project certainly could not be
addressed within the confines of this 60 day review period. Should the Government decide to proceed
with the construction of the Debe Mon Desir segment, the HRC is of the considered opinion that
shortcomings resulting from the inadequacies of proper assessment of the likely impacts on the human
and natural environment must first be determined and resolved
Monitor Diss wrote:“I will attend his funeral here. And after that nothing, nothing will come of it. The population won’t give a damn.”
Monitor Diss wrote:
“Left to Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Dr Wayne Kublalsingh is going to die,” Lee Sing said matter-of-factly, and indicating the small concrete ‘gap’ on Gray Street that Kublalsingh and the HRM have made their second home, he added:
“I will attend his funeral here. And after that nothing, nothing will come of it. The population won’t give a damn.”
janfar wrote:Bear Kublalsingh does absorb water thru his skin when he swimming . He is a red bean.
- Rovin's car audio - wrote:janfar wrote:Bear Kublalsingh does absorb water thru his skin when he swimming . He is a red bean.
good 1 .......
bear grylls all dem survival shows ppl doing it wrong - dem cyar last 3 days good , they need to come down to trinidad & learn how kubs do it ...
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