United opposition will win next general election-Dookeran
He points out that in the 2007 general election the Congress of the People and the Congress of the People together gathered 56 per cent of the votes cast and technically could have won that election.
Winston Dookeran believes a united opposition will win the next
general election but for the moment is keeping his [...]
What is Panday’s last trick?
The defeated and discredited maximum leader has cleared out his desk and slunk away from the UNC’s official opposition office. The question is: what trick does he have up his sleeve?
With Kamla Persad-Bissessar doing pretty well in the opinion polls and being seen as the leader most capable of solving the [...]
Panday blanks Kamla’s caucus
The silver fox will have to begin clearing out his desk at the UNC offices today probably for the very last time. He is cutting a forlorn figure as one by one his loyalists desert him.
Basdeo Panday will be boycotting tomorrow’s meeting of parliamentarians called by new United National Congress (UNC) political leader Kamla [...]
Kamla tightens grip on the UNC
She is the first leader of a major political party in the country’s history and there appears to be a groundswell of support for her throughout the country. Basdeo Panday will now become an ordinary backbencher.
It took four unnecessary weeks to confirm that Basdeo Panday was officially ousted as head honcho in the [...]
Kamla racks up support
Kamla’s star ascends but the old demagogue just won’t give up. He is surely going out an awful way.
Basdeo Panday insists that he is going nowhere-even as the House of the Rising Sun that he built is becoming deserted and he is facing eviction.
He is not going to form another party as he did [...]
Panday sleeps with the devil
The old maximum leader rules the roost in Parliament. But for how long?
Politics has a morality of its own.
So saith the man who was kicked out as leader of the party he founded in 1989-by a significant majority of his admiring supporters- and who is testing this peverse political theory by [...]
Sore loser Panday
Panday hanging on for dear life….
Kamla talks about healing while Panday stubbornly holds on to high-paying post of Parliamentary Opposition Leader. He could be, unceremoniously, removed by the President any day now.
Kamla Persad-Bissessar will be officially installed as political leader of the United National Congress at 2p.m. today and will [...]
Yo ho ho and a bottle of UNC rum!
Panday and Kamla in happier times
Some 35,000 UNC members are eligible to vote today to elect a political leader, chairman and other party officials. Who will it be, Basdeo Panday, the man who founded the party, Kamla or Ramesh?
Political parties, as a rule, don’t hold internal elections during the Carnival season.
The United National [...]
Kamla not fazed by parliamentary support for Panday
United National Congress (UNC) political leadership contender Kamla Persad-Bissessar is not too worried about the support by the majority of parliamentarians for incumbent Basdeo Panday.
“I’m not surprised by it”, she said today.
“At the end of the day it is about the people’s choice”, she added indicating that the rank and file and not a few [...]
Kamla gains ground
Gypsy and now Jack Warner pledge support for Kamla. What’s really going on?
Bemused political observers are wondering about the sudden disbanding of the Ramjack-G faction of the United National Congress (UNC) with Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj being left out in the cold in the party’s internal elections.
Both Jack Warner and Winston “Gypsy” Peters have [...]