Newsday
THE EDITOR: Why could restful Jennifer Baptiste-Primus’s refreshing comments at the total council assembly on October 19, now within the final public’s arena, become this kind of serious protest to the event?
Our 68-year-extinct event’s history of survival and overcoming inner controversy could restful be nicely-known, even to our matured and skilled participants who every every so often with ease resolve to push aside our event’s history of inner conflicts, and the importance and earn that positive disagreements can occupy no longer supreme on our event’s future, but extra importantly saving the event from electoral defeat.
Mistakes by our leaders, staunch or otherwise, are no longer recent to our event:
1. Eric Williams’s restful questionable treatment of ANR Robinson on the Monetary Act cost us the 2 seats in Tobago and Two decades opposition within the THA.
2. The signed undated letter strongly antagonistic by Karl Hudson-Phillips and myself noticed the start of the ONR and resulting from this reality our vast defeat within the east-west corridor in 1986.
3. The ill-told different of Eutrice Huggins in deserve to Victor Marcano cost us our first defeat in Diego Martin within the 1960s.
4. The refusal to ask Patrick Manning’s choices to call two total elections long earlier than they had been due, despite my several documented advices in opposition to those choices, resulted in two national election defeats.
5. Failure by the newest management to positively answer to the management disaster within the newest THA election cost us alter of the Assembly, and inflicted two buffoons on the individuals of Tobago.
Sometime ago I wrote advising the event no longer to manipulate the political leader, but to possess him.
I will be able to earn several extra references of injudicious and corrupt choices by our event management with the paunchy strengthen of the total council – with very few exceptions – which resulted in every every so often embarrassing and humiliating defeat of the event.
Our event turns into stronger when staunch dissenting voices and principled disagreements are allowed to prevail; without threats and accusations of destabilising our event.
Our event will proceed to be sturdy and prevail with voices like Baptiste-Primus.
In the end, our event is no longer a secret society. It is miles a individuals’s democratic institution, unlike our current opponents, who’re ready to genuflect and strengthen their leader – a former high minister – who publicly proclaimed, “…it is a ways a must to enhance your event, you notify you strengthen nation earlier than event – nicely inch to hell!”
Had Dr Rowley and the PNM dedicated such an unpatriotic, unpleasant and offensive act, I completely would occupy led the payment for his fast expulsion from the event. I will be able to supreme hope that the electorate will answer with the accurate punishment at the accurate time to this stage of lack of patriotism and unpleasant public utterance.
Despite all the issues, it is no secret that the PNM could restful and desires to be held to a better long-established. We are the accurate true national event within the nation. This used to be always the plot and plot of our founding fathers. In the phrases of the Mighty Stalin, “Rise up for one thing or that you would be able to die for nothing,”
There’ll always be these like Jennifer and myself who, rightly or wrongly, will no longer concern telling it prefer it is. Whatever the implications, we can proceed to set nation earlier than event and event earlier than leader.
FERDIE FERREIRA
foundation member, PNM
