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Showing skin and twisted underpants
« on: November 08, 2010, 11:22:04 PM »
Showing skin and twisted underpants
By Clarence Rambharat

Story Created: Nov 8, 2010 at 11:45 PM ECT

(Story Updated: Nov 8, 2010 at 11:45 PM ECT )

Ultimately, in a week of 180-degree turns, it's the Prime Minister's airside pooja which will fuel the next debate. In all of it, opinions will be heavily influenced by political support, a stubborn resistance to objectivity. Before the pooja, as Tomas was finished with St Lucia, the Prime Minister showed more political skin than she should in the circumstances, a tale about timing. With high winds around, Rowley and Ramlogan also needed better cover, saved from damage by their 180-degree turns. In Rowley's case a good lesson that, in politics, apologies are sometimes better than explanations.

Timing aside, the Prime Minister bared her skin on assistance to Tomas's victims, an extremely valid position better suited to a round table at the diplomatic centre. Tied aid, the medication proffered to the ailing Barbados and St Lucia, is known to leave an awful taste in the mouth, grounds for resistance. The UN describes tied aid as foreign aid which must be spent in the donor country or in a group of selected countries. In 2007 more than half of global bilateral aid was tied aid.

Looking now at the Prime Minister's testosterone-laden delegation to St Lucia, which followed her 180-degree turn on the tied aid proposal, it is difficult to ignore the view that the prevalence of tied aid is in part due to the heavily politicised nature of aid and the big business lobby which influences tied aid. There is no other way to explain the presence of Emile Elias and the Contractors' Association president on the PM's delegation, an investment mission disguised as a rescue mission.

But at the time Tomas was carving up Barbados and St Lucia, the intricacies of global aid was neither a mouth-watering nor consoling subject. There are significant merits in Patrick Manning's Caricom diplomacy, much of it built on an understanding that Trinidad and Tobago's long-term financial interests are heavily pegged to the success north and south of Trinidad and Tobago. Barbadian, OECS and Jamaican shelves are laden with T&T goodies.

Trinidad and Tobago's financial institutions are dominant up the islands, with the local Republic Bank now proposing to extend that dominance with a buyout of what the company does not already own in the Barbados National Bank (BNB). That initial acquisition of the BNB stake still upsets Barbadians, and the CLICO events have not made T&T any more palatable in Bridgetown.


Putting aside other debates about his agenda for self-aggrandisement, Manning recognised that Caricom diplomacy was much about ketchup, mustard and baked beans, and less about something for nothing. For now Manning's approach appears intact, Trinidad and Tobago slightly bruised by the PM's initial reaction but now improving. It leaves only the airside pooja after the Tomas trip for debate. 

Tomas also brought the Opposition Leader high winds, his underpants put on display at the PNM Women's League seminar, by somehow mingling crisis response with gender. Trinidad Rio went to UWI on a "quest to constabulate" before a largely female class and earned the title "big word man". Rowley, less ambitious before his female audience, got snagged by a few small words, like "woman" "cloud" and "wave".

Over three days the Opposition Leader traded in his Rottweiler's growl for the incessant yakking of a pompek, through statements and online clarifications, then an apology, a literal interpretation of the Opposition Leader's mantle. On October 31, Tomas's storm or hurricane threat out of Trinidad and Tobago's way, Rowley's unnecessary statement noted that "the Meteorological Office informed us of the weather condition east of Trinidad and Tobago...a normal weather disturbance...the actual threat posed to Trinidad and Tobago was that of a tropical wave''. The authorities, he said, chose to respond by shutting down the country, even though observation showed that the weather system had already begun to turn away from Trinidad and Tobago, heading northwest towards Barbados and St Vincent.

Hindsight is surely 20/20 and the Prime Minister, lacking a crystal ball, had no way of knowing Tomas's aversion to a whirlwind visit to the Divali Nagar. Like Tomas, Rowley deviated, in this case from the popular view that the PM's anxiety was appropriate, a tropical storm bearing down on the islands, the preceding floods wrought by less threatening weather systems still on everybody's minds.

Rowley, winds howling around him, adjusted his underpants, his rear end now covered and a stint as the small-word man ended. In previous years Rowley picked his battles selectively, certainly not one with the Met Office and ODPM.

And oh, the AG's underpants, tightened over several days from Senator Beckles' firm grip, Sir Gavin eventually making way for Sir Anthony. Sir Gavin is said to have advised in that CLICO/Republic Bank matter, a matter in which there were a few litigants and many lawyers. Lawyers would not have recalled Sir Gavin's involvement right away, much of the action having centred around two largely unknown companies into which some of the bank's shares were parked, the shares' voting power becoming of paramount importance as CLICO's control of the bank seemed likely.


As the old year's day showdown loomed, the potential battle was settled with an agreement loaded with confidentiality clauses. The lawyer most remembered would be Sir Harold St John, or Bree, the former Barbadian Prime Minister who died in 2004, having led the Viveka Holdings legal team, Viveka one of the companies holding the shares with the contested voting rights.

The AG was then pursuing his Master's degree in the UK and would not have personal knowledge of these events. But he might have had better information on his choice of local junior counsel, forced to withdraw because of previous HCU litigation. A big loss but again, one that emphasises the need for a structured and transparent process for briefing counsel, before Penny grabs the AG by his underpants again.

After all of this, the Prime Minister prayed for the country and in return the country will now debate the appropriateness of airside poojas and jhandis.


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Re: Showing skin and twisted underpants
« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2010, 11:27:19 PM »
Somethings our own Controversial the most learned and formally educated forumite,especially in the fields of international relations, political science,economics could never understand becasue he bright as a bar of soap in a gay prison wing....

namely :

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There is no other way to explain the presence of Emile Elias and the Contractors' Association president on the PM's delegation, an investment mission disguised as a rescue mission.

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There are significant merits in Patrick Manning's Caricom diplomacy, much of it built on an understanding that Trinidad and Tobago's long-term financial interests are heavily pegged to the success north and south of Trinidad and Tobago. Barbadian, OECS and Jamaican shelves are laden with T&T goodies.

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Putting aside other debates about his agenda for self-aggrandisement, Manning recognised that Caricom diplomacy was much about ketchup, mustard and baked beans, and less about something for nothing. For now Manning's approach appears intact, Trinidad and Tobago slightly bruised by the PM's initial reaction but now improving. It leaves only the airside pooja after the Tomas trip for debate.

Ah glad is some professor who actually went to university who say dis yes, and it ewh come from a 7th standard dunce like me.


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Re: Showing skin and twisted underpants
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2010, 09:17:08 PM »
Clarence Rambharat is a university

lecturer and lawyer

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Re: Showing skin and twisted underpants
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2010, 10:23:55 PM »
Most importantly TriniInfiniteshitalker will say he ent have ah PoliSci degree so he ent know what he talking about.

 

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