Trinidad & Tobago: Giving Up the Post? · Global Voices
Despite the devastation taking place in other parts of the region, in Trinidad and Tobago it appears to be politics as usual. On the heels of news that party voting for leadership of the opposition United National Congress had gone in resounding favour of <PERSON>, former party leader (and founder) <PERSON> reacted by refusing to admit defeat. Bloggers discuss the impasse…
Trinidad and Tobago girls, politics, sports, technology, carnival, and lifestyle comments:
In effect, he is challenging Mrs <PERSON> to prove she has the support of at least 7 MP's in Parliament, excluding herself.
It appears she has the immediate support of 4 members, <PERSON>, <PERSON>, <PERSON>, and possibly, <PERSON>.
Whatever happens, politics in Trinidad and Tobago will never be the same.
Barbadian blogger <PERSON> can't believe <PERSON> is refusing to go graciously:
<PERSON> just doesn't know when to call it quits. Show some humility for once, <PERSON>…
Of <PERSON>'s claim that “boxes allegedly containing thousands of party membership cards were discovered hidden at the Rienzi Complex, Couva, headquarters”, Trinidadian diaspora blogger <PERSON> has this to say:
An argument can be made that they belonged to people who are supporters of <PERSON> and it was <PERSON>’ team who suppressed them.
All I can think of is the ‘<PERSON> lil boy syndrome’, you know the one where ‘if I cyah bat, I taking meh bat and ball and going home’.
This man behaves (at the age of 77) the way a little child would!
<PERSON>, meanwhile, refers to an old <PERSON> calypso, “Ten to One is Murder”:
10-1 is murder!
Or so <PERSON> said.
Yet, despite a 10-1 drubbing by <PERSON> in the UNC leadership elections, <PERSON>, like <PERSON>, ‘nah leaving.’
Not that I think we expected any different. <PERSON> have to hold strong now.
kid5rivers puts it a little more bluntly:
Accordingly, gentlemen, please stop the shyte! Your antics are pathetic…and that's a most diplomatic description, okay? You were soundly beaten, fair and square!
Trinidadian journalist <PERSON>, who now resides in Barbados, marks the occasion of <PERSON>'s “political passing” by republishing an interview he did “with then Leader of the Opposition, <PERSON>, in March 2002″, adding:
No one I've met is nearly as quick on their mental feet as <PERSON>; and that certainly includes everyone on the TT political scene today.
Back in Trinidad, <PERSON> considers what the result could mean politically:
According to the twittersphere, <PERSON> has won the United National Congress Alliance internal election. For the nosebleed section, that means that <PERSON> is no longer running the show.
That being said, there has been some mention of a coalition between COP and the UNC-A. 957
What it should be, if they want to wedge their way back into the misdirected Westminster system, is a reconciliation between the two groups of supporters. The UNC-A supporters strongly echoed the sentiments of a split vote yet the voices from which they echoed did not openly recognize the fact that the vote was split because people didn't believe they weren't very good at Opposition. If the last two elections have demonstrated anything, it is the lack of popular support of the party parading (barely) as Opposition.
KnowTnT.com‘s <PERSON> has the last word:
UNC MP <PERSON> and ex-Chairman of the Membership Committee <PERSON> hosted a news conference yesterday to give further details on the alleged discovery of boxes containing “thousands” of undistributed UNC membership cards at Rienzi Complex, home of the UNC's administrative offices. It was carried live by media houses on the Internet and reported in today's papers…
I looked at the news conference via C News’ live Internet broadcast Internet yesterday and was left a bit confused. At the end of it, I quite frankly was left with the feeling that here was a bunch of poor-me-ones trying to deflect public attention from the winds of change by claiming some fraud occurred. Their hinting of the possibility of some member of the public seeking court-room clarification on this discovery was puzzling: clarification of what?
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