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The Jack factor
PETER O'CONNOR Sunday, June 21 2009
Our government has become the most ineffective, incompetent, and judging by public comment, now the most unpopular in our history. Every day we are faced with a new horror story of failure and incompetence. This government cannot even collect garbage, far less fix roads, supply water, provide security or get their legal briefs to court on time. Rural public buildings like magistrates’ courts, police stations, schools and libraries are abandoned as unfit for habitation. And while the government cannot fix anything, they plunge ahead with wasteful first world bling which has no place in an undeveloped country — which is what we are.
And while we suffer this incompetence from our government, we are also cursed with an opposition in parliament which, while it complains about government victimisation, is moving full speed ahead on internal self destruction.
And yet, while we face this drift into failure, we seem to find no will, no strength, no commitment to stand up and demand change, or to start the change process, and to do what we all know needs to be done for our country. We have reached a state where they— the government and the opposition— can do, or not do, what they want with our country and our lives. And we, like the pathetic sheep we are (all of us — business, labour, religions, NGOs), do less than nothing. We just keep accepting all this failure, incompetence, arrogance, and corruption.
The COP, our “alternate” government and opposition, keeps trying to focus on the issues of the day. But they can do nothing specific until the next general election. Their 148,000 votes in the 2007 election demonstrated more our disgust with the PNM and the UNC than true support for COP. However COP was brand new then, but have been building themselves into a responsible choice ever since, so maybe… next time?
But can we wait that long? Is there somebody currently on the scene who can bring about the changes so badly needed? And indeed, what are the changes we need?
More and more people are acknowledging that we need someone now who can start to make things happen, who can create change from the current failing state to a forward moving society. And more and more people are hoping, and indeed asking, that Jack Warner might step into the void of despair, and lead us out of it. Whatever the controversies that have swirled in this mercurial man’s wake, there is a common consensus about him: Jack Can! He may have had critics aplenty for some of the things he has done, but no one complains that there is something not done as he passes.
I have known Jack, as his associate in football, and as his friend, since 1974. And our friendship has been tested by disagreement and flare-ups, and by disappointments aplenty in those 35 years. But in all this, I have seen a man who has overcome every challenge he has faced, at home and in the world, and he did this without destroying those who opposed him, but by incorporating them in his vision. Jack, more than anyone else, developed the Strike Squad through the Youth Football Programme of the 1980’s. That is where Dwight, Russell, Shaka, Carlos, Kenwynne, Clayton Ince and others came from. And that programme was severely criticised here! His successes caused USA and Canada to promote his candidacy for President of CONCACAF in 1990.
Having won that position, over the resistance of the incumbents, Jack lifted the moribund, backwater FIFA Confederation into an example of efficiency, effectiveness and respect. It was he who showed FIFA how to move from a complex “if A beats B and C draws with D, then E can go to the next round” format of 24 teams, to a straightforward competition of 32 teams at the World Cup Finals. And in so doing, he created additional places for countries like Jamaica and TT to qualify.
CONCACAF was as poorly managed in 1990 as TT is today. It was stagnant and unenterprising. Today, for all its diverse membership, it is an example of progressiveness. The sub-group, The Caribbean Football Union, is the only effective operating regional enterprise in existence. The reason both these groups are effective is: Jack Warner. Is TT a more difficult challenge than those?
When it was announced that he was now the Senior VP in FIFA, I sent the following as congratulations: “…….you will soon have to face a dilemma of monumental, albeit positive choices: Will you take over the governing of FIFA, or the governing of TT? Both await you.”
Jack, who responds to 99.95 percent of his e-mail, has remained silent on this so far. We wait.
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