How can corruption be a perception??? when never in the history of Trinidad and Tobago has a government spent 400 billion dollars in 5 years.
Just to be clear, if you want to quote me, put it in context. My perception comment is that they are perceived to be
more corrupt than other corrupt governments we've had.
1. Are you saying every cent spent in the last 5 years were corrupt? I don't think even the PP's biggest detractors suggest that.
2. Inflation adjusted, the PP's budget spending isn't that far off from previous administrations. In 2009/2010 (the last PNM budget), there was a revenue projection $36B TTD and and spending of $46B TTD. In 2015 numbers, adjusted for inflation, that would be $54B TTD and $69B TTD respectively. If they ran those numbers every year for 5 years, you would have had around $350 B TTD spent over 5 years, with $75B TTD of debt. Anyway my point is 400B TTD is a lot of money but using that number alone without context doesn't really mean much.
How can you say it's a perception when a company with ties to the gov't receives 1 billion dollars to build roads but has to outsource contracts because they don't have the capabilities
Because it's not the first billion dollar corruption scandal we've had. The Piarco airport was a billion dollar scandal, and in today's dollars it's a multi-billion scandal. The UDECOTT contracts were billion dollar scandals. It's not the first, and probably won't be the last unfortunately.
When a PM leaves Parliament Thursday and doesn't return till the following Wednesday...who was actually running the gov't
People who forget our history are doomed to repeat it. Kamla was not the first prime minister to be accused of bizarre behaviour.
Do people not forget Manning's relationship with Julia Pena - that she was giving him "spiritual advice" on government matters (and he used gov't resources to find her multi-million dollar church).
Eric Williams was accused of disappearing for weeks at a time to write books, where even senior members of his cabinet could not reach him for days. He'd remain at home and not venture out to his office for a week or two at a time, which created chaos for the folks around him.
I absolutely agree that Kamla had bizarre behaviour though.
When a man gets a check for millions of dollars for lifesport but doesn't do one thing...how could that be perception
Again (theme) not the first time. We've had scandals upon scandals of people collecting money from gov't programs like scholarships during both the PNM/UNC administrations pre-2010, ghost workers in state companies, and flat out corrupt bribes.
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