For those who doh support nun ah dem... ah cayr do that because their is no such thing as "nun ah dem" when yuh voting... One of the top 3 will win... and go on to run de country... if I had it my way I would still have the NAR... but this is wishful thinking..!
come on NAR in modern language is spelt COP.
Listen in my view, if an Indian had taken over the PNM, their base would not have accepted that - simple. Imagine is indian making most use of the pnmistic ways and benefiting behind the scenes and the african base didn't/doesnt mind that, but if an Indian take over leadership then it will be right up in their faces and that was/is unacceptable.
true dat.
Bullshit ... ribbit you never fail to disappoint. Viewed strictly through the lens of race, it would have been a watershed moment for the country, and possibly a favourable tipping point. There would have been no revolt of the masses because of the circumstances under which the transition would have occurred.
On a level it's difficult to distill the 80s political climate from the vantage point of hindsight and the vitriol of the political climate 30 years on, but the polarity and invective of present circumstances were unfamiliar then. It very well may have been a poor call by the powers that be (from the perspective of long-term political implications) to usher in Mr. Chambers.
Then again ... me eh know, I din have no Japanese garden in my backyard.
Not so sure that it is bullshit you know. The PNM had a great propensity to discriminate against Hindus, and while Kamal was NOT a hindu, you must remember that indians were bottom of the socio-economic ladder.
There was an interesting occurrence when lots of Indians boycotted the polls and PNM under Eric Williams swept every seat in the election. Do you know what caused this to happen?
I wasn't around then, but everything I hear told me that the boycott took place ostensibly because of protests against the continued use of voting machines that were deemed rigged by the then Opposition, led by ANR Robinson. It is likely that in truth and in fact, Robinson (then leader of the ACDC, knew pertinently he could not win the election and sought to undermine the PNM's credibility in the wake of the Black Power elections by orchestrating the no vote campaign.
The reason that so many Indians boycotted, however was that the DLP, Robinson's coalition partner in that election, was a decidely Indian supported party, and the major vote gatherer in Trinidad. What is quite weird about the boycott is that is was essentially a one man decision by Robinson, and leader of the DLP at the time was not consulted (he essentially found out about it on the platform while waiting for Mr. Robinson to finish his speech)
What occurred is that most of the non PNM Indian vote cast that year was actually loyalty votes for Badase Sagan Maraj, the man who had been the pioneer of party politics among the Indian electorate, and who was then sidelined when the DLP was formed to counter the PNM.
Is pretty much the equivalent of today, if Rowley quit the PNM, start a Tobago party called the RWB (Rottweiler Brigade), had join up with the UNC after Kamla wipe the floor with Bas to contest this election, then get up on a joint platform one day just before the election to announce that he call on all conscientous and responsible citizens to boycott the polls because he has conclusive proof that EBC are loaded with PNM cronies and have been since 2002...and finally only Bas' new party support went out and vote while the PNM loyalists make mas
sounds weird eh?