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General Discussion / Re: Section 34 Thread

« on: May 22, 2013, 06:47:02 AM »

 Although you could imagine that the email conversations could have happened.

 If Rowley's final response does not  to some measure authenticate the emails then the whole bekennell (as dutty calls it) is just that.

 It would also be a serious indictment against his intellect. I for one would not see him as PM material again.

 In fact the man will be considered a damn .......

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General Discussion / Re: Section 34 Thread

« on: May 21, 2013, 06:41:59 AM »

With just a cursory scan of the dialogue you encounter 'Kamla' repeatedly referring to 'Anand' as AG. That didn't sound strange to Rowley ?

 Not really when they get position is like a handle they use to address each other like.

 They will always call her PM in meetings in the office etc, same with the AG and ministers are always referred to as minister so I guess it can become a habit.

 The Chief Justice everybody does call him chief regardless of the circumstance.

 

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General Discussion / Re: Rowley releases section 34 email ‘conspiracy’

« on: May 20, 2013, 10:39:26 PM »

Them emails sounding rel bogus. If those are the email Rowley read he get ketch big time.

 We know Rowley ent too smart but you would think he would have enough sense but to have some way of halfway proving the validity of the emails.

Then again it could have somebody or people in the PNM trying to f00k him .

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General Discussion / Re: Volney names UNC 'Cabal'

« on: May 09, 2013, 07:48:41 AM »

 Still have better options than PNM and PP out there.

People just too coward to try.

 If years ago the PNM groupies had decided that enough was enough and looked at Tapia or even DAC as an option we would not have been in this mess now.

 MSJ is probably a better option than any.

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General Discussion / Re: Caribbean Airlines Thread.

« on: May 09, 2013, 05:34:08 AM »

After the stress Cbb Islands but me through last year as I headed to the London Olympics I really eh want to hear bout them.

Dais which airline??....

  by now u shld b usd to W69 srthd

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General Discussion / Re: Caribbean Airlines Thread.

« on: May 08, 2013, 03:40:44 AM »

Mariano Browne, former Minister in the Ministry of Finance, did an extensive discussion on the CAL situation over the last two Fridays on his programme on I95.5 fm.  I have found his programme to be very informative and even though on Fridays I like to stay away from the political stuff and talk radio generally, I find his programme to be very good and without a pro-PNM/political slant.  He just delivers good, good information.  So I take a listen.....

Anywho, he said that the London route was given up by the previous board (the one headed by the man whose only claim to fame is selling Sunshine Snacks in "Sah Wha"  ), because it was an unprofitable route.   He also said that no cash was paid for Air Jamaica in response to the claim that CAL burn through cash in two years for things like payment for Air Jamaica.  I think he also said that CAL didn't take any of Air Jamaica's debt, the Jamaican government took up that......

But say what....we have a board now headed by a man who have real common sense so CAL in good hands....right Deviant??   

I start taking this flight and it is always full.
Loads of Surinamese and Guyanese using it.
So maybe it is making some money now

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General Discussion / Re: Anybody here have any experience building a house in TT?

« on: May 08, 2013, 03:33:39 AM »

Interesting topic cuz I looking to build in about 18 - 24 months and I scared like hell based on the stories I've been hearing about contractors.

Fishs, you would have to PM that contractors info......

Scaffoliding was quoted as 90K got it for 20K

  ...your contractor is Beretta or Smith&Wesson?

 

Allyuh joking.
With the new OSHA laws in Trinidad if somebody gets hurt whilst working on your job you are liable.
Gone are the days when yuh could knock up some 4 x 4s and put some old plank across for man to stand up on an if man fall yuh blame it on the workman.

My house has 4 levels because its built to follow the slope of a mountain . The front elevation is about 40ft to the roof and most of the other sides go up 30ft.

Scaffolding is very expensive and requires certified men to erect.

Eventually for the 20K I bought the pipes and shackles and built it myself with the contractor, gave the contractor the material after with a deduction for the overall costs.

But to answer VB's question there are good contractors that are reasonably reliable, however like anywhere else in the world if you don't supervise them you will lose.

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General Discussion / Re: Anybody here have any experience building a house in TT?

« on: May 07, 2013, 07:36:39 AM »

 Painted my house and did some mods to the kitchen cost 120K TT.
 Got a contarctor who worked for me for years, no problem.

The other 2 quotes I got were 180K and 210K.

 Scaffoliding was quoted as 90K got it for 20K

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General Discussion / Re: Will Jack create history?

« on: May 06, 2013, 10:29:06 PM »

jack is in for a rude awakening when he runs as an independent

ENTTTTT

Actually.

He might win.

Nothing really at stake for the seat...the result of this election doh matter rather than give leverage to the winner.

If it was a general election and the tribal base being stoked....well.....then.....

I think it will have some big bacchanal.

If Jack dont get picked by UNC and he run as an independant then the UNC will have to expel him.

If Jack get expel from the UNC he not going to take it lightly, in response the UNC or PP goverment will go after him with all the corruption issues.

Or on the other hand they could explain to him the consequences if he continue the course an give him a post of industrial court judge or something.

I like the first doh looking forward to the PP bacchanal

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General Discussion / Re: Man sentenced to 8 months for Killing "bully"

« on: May 06, 2013, 02:47:53 AM »

Incidentally... this is exactly the type of case that the infamous Section 34 was intended to address, until the legislative apparatus was hijacked by the PP gov't.

Was it for murder as well?
I seem to recall it was for a range of offences but not capital.

 I was once a witness in a murder case and from deed to sentencing it took 3yrs
 One year in magistrate court then a gap of 2 yrs then 1 week in high court.

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Football / Re: Jack and the demise of local football

« on: May 02, 2013, 05:38:31 AM »

 I say long time now when Jack took over and mash up all the established leagues because of ASL he virtually killed what was community football.

 Every Saturday evening hundreds if not thousands of people heading to the respective grounds to watch the NFL.
Tesca, Arima United, Memphis, Malvern, ECM Motown, Police, Defence Force, Caroni, PFCC, QRC.....

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General Discussion / Re: Prices of stuff in T&T.

« on: May 02, 2013, 05:27:03 AM »

 How much for ah sweedrink ?

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General Discussion / Re: Will Jack create history?

« on: May 02, 2013, 12:54:21 AM »

Bas: Kamla can’t put back Jack
By Anna Ramdass anna.ramdass@trinidadexpress.com

Story Created: May 1, 2013 at 9:54 PM ECT

(Story Updated: May 1, 2013 at 10:55 PM ECT )

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar would be contradicting herself if she allows former Government minister Jack Warner to contest the Chaguanas West by-election.

Former prime minister and ex-leader of the United National Congress (UNC) Basdeo Panday, speaking with the Express by phone yesterday, said that he could not see how Persad-Bissessar and the party could agree to Warner running for the seat as he has not yet cleared his name.

Persad-Bissessar and the UNC executive are scheduled to meet today at Rienzi Complex, Couva to discuss the issue.

Panday noted that the Prime Minister accepted Warner’s resignation following a Concacaf Integrity Committee report which found that he was fraudulent in his management of the entity during his presidency.

Warner’s move to resign as the Chaguanas West MP, said Panday, was a game of distraction.

“It seems to me that what he’s (Warner) trying to do really is to divert attention away from all these allegations that are being made against him, but the party is in a quandary because as far as I am aware from reading the papers the political leader has said she accepted his resignation because of the Concacaf report,” said Panday.

“If that is the case I don’t know how she can agree that he contest the by-election on a UNC ticket, I think that will be a contradiction if they do that,” he added.

Questioned on whether he believes the people of Chaguanas West would be loyal to party or to person, Panday said the electorate will soon decide.

However, he noted that when Warner received an overwhelming 19,000 votes in the 2010 general election, the people voted for party.

“They certainly were loyal to party because at that time Warner was not very well known either for good or bad,” said Panday.

Panday said he did not think that Warner has enough support to re-win the seat.

“What Mr Warner has around him is a group that feeds off his trough and those are the people who always come out and rally around and so on. I don’t know if that is enough to win an election, I don’t think so,” said Panday.

The Chaguanas West seat, said Panday, will be one to watch.

“The PNM will be putting up somebody, there will be independents, Chaguanas West has been a very volatile seat really and its composition has changed a lot over the years and anything can happen in Chaguanas,” said Panday.

He added that it was clear that the Prime Minister recognised that this country’s reputation was being damaged internationally and nationally over the continuous negative reports with respect to Warner’s tenure as Concacaf president and FIFA vice-president.

The Express understands that the UNC was looking at other candidates who can put up a fight against Warner to reclaim the seat.

Questioned on whether his daughter Mickela, former Oropouche West MP, was contacted, Panday said he was not aware and as far as he was concerned she is a “fiercely independent young woman who will make her own decisions”.

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General Discussion / Re: Will Jack create history?

« on: May 01, 2013, 10:12:34 AM »

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Warner’s ‘candidacy’ puts UNC in a monkey pants
Published: Wednesday, May 1, 2013Tony Fraser
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Published: Wednesday, May 1, 2013.
Jack Warner’s intention to contest his own by-election will pose for the United National Congress one of its biggest challenges in the after-wash of the Warner-Concacaf-resignation-firing affair. Can the UNC accept Warner’s return candidacy, having ditched him as someone allegedly internationally tainted by corruption?

 

“How it go look” if the UNC were to agree to put a candidate in the Parliament, who, by the acceptance of the Prime Minister of the Warner resignation, implicitly and tacitly agreed with the findings and conclusions of the Sir David Simmons Integrity Committee report? If the party endorses Warner’s candidacy it will automatically disqualify it from being an advocate of transparency, integrity in public life and all the other accepted high standards of behaviour its leadership usually swears by in the public arena.

 

Further, if the UNC were to bow to the pressure of Warner to have him reinstated through its screening process, that would surely demonstrate publicly that Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar, notwithstanding her recent protest to the contrary, is a supplicant of Warner, afraid that he could “buss ah mark.”

 

But there are no easy options for the political leader and her cabal. If Warner’s candidacy, which he says the prime minister already agreed to and according to him, told him that “I shall win,” is blocked, he can even more fundamentally impact the UNC.

 

If he is rejected by the UNC screening committee, Warner can easily get his constituents to urge him to contest the by-election as an independent. It would be a numbing political blow for the UNC if Warner were to contest as an independent and win a UNC heartland seat against a candidate of the party.

 

That would amount to an “outsider,” one who is not organically linked to the UNC core, waltzing into ancestral territory and spanking the party’s hierarchy; no amount of spin-doctoring will heal such a wound, and on the eve of local government polls with national elections just a deep political breath away.

 

But then again, because of the complex factors involved on all sides in this Machiavellian drama, it is possible for Warner to be persuaded by the weight of plots and counter-plots to go quietly and plant rice in Todd’s Road or wherever he has an open field.

 

 

But given his mercurial nature, or as described by the Court for Sport Arbitration, as an individual whose statements and actions “are marked by manifest and frequent inconsistency,” the former MP could call another Straight Talk session, this time with total focus on the “lurkers” to speak frankly about those who “continue to be consumed by hatred for each other as we (in the party) have practised in the past.”

 

Nonetheless, to endorse Warner’s candidacy yield would allow Warner re-entry to the UNC MP fold and open the party to serious division and destabilisation as he Warner will assuredly seek “hand in hand (with his constituents of Chaguanas West) to set right all the wrongs that have been committed.”

 

They (the leadership of the UNC) must all be quite aware of the capacity of Warner to influence dramatic change in the party. It was he, Warner, who did what many desired but did not have the testicular fortitude and political savvy to undertake, that is to get rid of Basdeo Panday from the party he created.

 

It was Warner who formed one part of the “Ram-Jack” demolition squad that carried out the palace coup on Panday, placed Kamla in charge, overnight rescued this “woman no cry” from being trampled upon by the bull elephants and performed the eventual coup de grace—political leader of a five-party coalition and Prime Minister of T&T.

 

That is bewildering, heady stuff even for a man whose political teeth were cut in Fifa, which we know is not a Sunday school. The message must be to the Prime Minister and her cabal (and one million denials of its existence will not change that) that they are tangling with an enemy not short of resources, political grassroots support and inventiveness. 

 

But maybe the UNC cabal is placing bets and some governmental resources on an option that will free it for good of the Warner factor. What if, from the corridors of government, there is assistance to international authorities who may want to have a word with Austin Jack Warner on a few of the matters contained in the Concacaf Integrity Committee report?

 

That would be the ideal and there are doubtless many at the highest level in the UNC and in government hoping for, perhaps even deliberately working towards, engendering it into reality. Such a possible outcome would immediately free the UNC from having to decide on Warner as a possible candidate and would lend credence to the Prime Minister’s decision to accept the resignation of her great political benefactor.

 

Three months is an eternity in politics; more so given the dynamic nature of the matters involved and the fact that the only portion of the iceberg (usually the far smaller portion of the whole) is so far visible.
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Football / Re: Hot topic:Are there any homo's/gays in the TT pro league or the National Side??

« on: May 01, 2013, 03:43:01 AM »

 Funny the thing that start this post name DavyJenny1

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General Discussion / Re: Trying to win an Xbox, NH man loses life savings on carnival game

« on: May 01, 2013, 01:32:59 AM »

 He get the perfect redneck girlfriend

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General Discussion / Re: Millions in CIA "ghost money" paid to Afghan president's office.

« on: April 30, 2013, 05:29:31 AM »

 I suppose if the US do it, it's ok

 Talk about double standards

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Football / Re: VFFOTT accepts invitation from the TTFF to work together

« on: April 30, 2013, 04:24:48 AM »

  Years ago Selby had bought the TV rights for TT football, Jack went and get FIFA to make TT tv rights lump under CONCACAF nad buy the rights for himself from FIFA for 1 DOLLAR.

 Selby sue TTFA and that ent reach no where, he end up losing some money and potentialy a kings ransom to the crook.

 Selby is one of the celebrated QRC old boys and is a true patriot so if them fellas getting involved it could only be good for TT football.

Just keep out Ken Butcher

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Football / Re: Hot topic:Are there any gays in the TT pro league or the National Side??

« on: April 30, 2013, 04:18:28 AM »

I doh want not f00cking bullarman in de same dressing room with me.

De last bullarman to play for T&T was Michael McComie.

What happen Sam, the temptation would be too much for you or what? 

Sam the man calling yuh out of the bereaux

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General Discussion / Re: Prices of stuff in T&T.

« on: April 30, 2013, 04:15:28 AM »

 Hear nah Flex man buying Iphone for dey children in primary school as soon as a new phone come man rushing dat regardless of price.

 My S2 is 1 year old and I paid 300 GBP for it these people paying 2 times dat for the S4.

 From Wednesday night man liming for the rest of the weekend outside all them bars on both avenues Cipriani and Ariapita, the most expensive restaurant in town (Chaud) packed almost everynight.

Trinis have real money.

A lot of corruption money which is dangerous because whilst that money floating around the infrastructure getting lick up, health care is a mess and nothing saving for a rainy day literally.

Trinis doh care !!!!

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General Discussion / Will Jack create history?

« on: April 30, 2013, 02:34:06 AM »

 It seems as if the UNC hierarchy has had enough of Jack and may not nominate him as the candidate for Chaguanas West.

 If this happens knowing Jack's personality he may quite likely run as an independant.
 Jack in the last election got over 19000 votes to the PNM candidates 1200.

 If he does run, will he create history by being the first independant since independance not to lose his deposit and Jacket  and win the seat?

 How will he use this to his benefit?

 Or will he migrate to Qatar or Russia?

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Football / Re: Flex, tallman, E-man...and that other bitch-ass new "moderator"

« on: April 23, 2013, 09:13:23 PM »

 This kinda funny before the forum there was.........
 Man develop thing for us to interact as people do some good some bad but let it evolve
Bakes is part of that evolutiotion so be it. Time is a great leveler

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Football / Re: Apologies

« on: April 22, 2013, 07:06:02 AM »

  If Jack did not screw the Warriors and had kept his dealings in TT clean yuh don't think there would have been a different perception of him ?

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Football / Re: Centre of Excellence questions.

« on: April 22, 2013, 07:02:53 AM »

 The President and the DPP don't do investigations is the police or integrity committee or even BIR that could do that and then recommend charges.

 Imagine the police take 50 odd days for the accident in sealots, the soldier that get murdered in Chag base, the Glen Ashby case and numerous others ent reach no way. What you think going an happen with this ?

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General Discussion / Re: Official..NO MORE JACK!

« on: April 22, 2013, 12:46:05 AM »

  If anybody want to see the full report, I can email it to them.
 I can't post it here because my company computer blocking that.
So if you want I can sedn it to somebody and they can post it here.

 The thing real damning

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General Discussion / Re: Kamla: It’s a tragic scenario... Concacaf expose

« on: April 20, 2013, 02:52:32 AM »

 No way she touching Jack is she want to make the 5 years.

 She will probably use the line that it is just accusations and outside Trinidad's jurisdiction almost a private matter and that Jack has not been charged with any crime la dee da

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General Discussion / Re: Allyuh feel they should bring back lix in schools ?

« on: April 18, 2013, 06:47:43 AM »

I drop out of Arima junior sec bro. We was real poor, my mother couln't afford to sen all of us.

And this bullerman VB just love to hear news like this, he prick does get hard when man talk bad bout Sam.

I was just giving yuh fatigue. Respect
 Did'n work on me either.
 I use to get licks with anything dey coulda put dey hands on. Some of them was boldfaced enough to tell mih go an pick the guava branch.

Could never understand why when ah get licks in school it started a chain reaction. Mih sister would tell mih mom who would give mih a cut tail then mih mom would tell mih fadder who would give mih a cuttail, he would get in de mood and give mih big brother a cuttail who would then blame that cuttail on me he would give mih a cuttail then, I would be so vex with mih sis that I would tell her something and then the cuttail start again.
Come to think of it ah spent a lot of time when ah was in primary school getting cuttail, because I remember getting cuttail for cathechism, after school for lessons, from de neighbors, shit it even had a common fowl in de yard that used to pick mih foot when it ready.


How de ass I ent turn out to be a mass murderer cuttails me.

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General Discussion / Re: Allyuh feel they should bring back lix in schools ?

« on: April 18, 2013, 01:40:11 AM »

 Did'n work on you Sam

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General Discussion / Re: SUFFERING FROM NEVER THOUGHT

« on: April 16, 2013, 06:32:12 AM »

 As long as Rowley doh pelt them

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General Discussion / Re: Driver in accident may walk as Sea Lots probe botched

« on: April 13, 2013, 05:14:24 AM »

 When will we stop posting snide remarks and stand up and make a difference?

 It's funny how we expect the less able to fight the good fight for justice.

 Anybody here going to join these people in their struggle for justice ?

Answer a big NO.

You going?

Went on the march for 2 consecutive Sundays. The lady worked on one of my projects.

All along they were saying the police man would not be touched and now it seems they may be proven right although a lady lawyer has said charges will be laid.

There is a certain feeling of hopelessness with this tragedy