Go quietly and quickly, Mr Manning
From the Trinidad Guardian
For Mr Manning to leave it up to the general council of the PNM to make the
decision on his future would be unacceptable….Read more….
Having called an election 30 months ahead of schedule and lost the government
from a comfortable 26-15 majority, former Prime Minister Patrick Manning should
not merely accept full responsibility for the [...]
End of the Patrick Manning era
The PNM is still in a daze after a merciless battering at the polls on Monday. Patrick Manning is expected to do the honourable thing and step down tomorrow after 24 years at the wheel.
Tears flowed at Balisier House- big men wept- when People’s National Movement candidates met with outgoing Prime Minister Patrick Manning to [...]
Can Manning pull off his big gamble?
The pollsters are leaning towards Kamla. However, voters and not polls win elections on polling day.
The result of Prime Minister Patrick Manning’s biggest gamble will be known around midnight and he will be either seen as the biggest fool to squander a 26-15 majority with 30 months of his term left or [...]
End of the Panday brand?
Out! Out! Out!
The three Pandays- Basdeo Panday, Subhas Panday and Mickela Panday will not be in the new Parliament when it convenes later this month.
United National Congress new political leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar, who was not there when Panday founded the party in the slush and mud in Aranguez 21 years ago, has seen to it [...]
Surprises at PNM’s big day in Woodford Square tomorrow
The country enters another mother of all elections and the PNM has some surprises when it presents 41 candidates tomorrow.
Embattled Diego Martin West People’s National Movement (PNM) heavyweight Dr Keith Rowley will be welcomed like the biblical “prodigal son” by political leader Prime Minister Patrick Manning at the party’s presentation of candidates in Woodford [...]
Here comes the judge!
Just like that, a judge has decided to fight a seat making it a first in the wacky world of local politics.
Basdeo Panday’s dictum that politics has a morality of its own has been exemplified by former Judge Herbert Volney’s sudden resignation from the Judiciary to jump, immediately, into politics.
The fallout from this [...]
ELECTION DATE ANNOUNCEMENT TONIGHT?
Big Monday night as the PNM kicks off its campaign in St.Augustine and the UNC in Marabella.Will the election date be announced?
Will Prime Minister Patrick Manning announce the election date tonight in one of the Opposition prized constituencies, St Augustine?
The People’s National Movement (PNM) will launch its 2010 general election campaign at the St [...]
Former RBTT banker on PNM ticket
by EARL MANMOHAN, Tobago News
PNM Tobago West MP Stanford Callender is bowing out of
representative politics. Read more….
PNM Tobago West MP Stanford Callender is bowing out of
representative politics. He did not sign the consent form to
be nominated for the seat when nominations closed on Tuesday
at Balisier House, Port of Spain. Callender has held for the
PNM since [...]
TOP,COP, Jack’s Soccerdollars in elections brew
This week has been the proverbial long week in politics. The next few weeks will be like an eternity
Things occur at a dizzy pace in Trinidad and Tobago and yesterday’s sudden announcement of the dissolution of Parliament made the aftershocks of the Uff Report seem almost like something that happened last year.
The prospect of [...]