Democracy's dashboard light is blinking

NATUC’s President Michael Annisette would have banded with his government and business colleagues at the ILO Conference in Geneva a month ago to promote worker participation and democracy. Now, in an about turn, he and Independent Senator Gail Merhair, with roots in business, have joined the government in the Senate to defeat what must be the most sacred tenet of democracy, the holding of free and fair elections.

For a fourth time the government abused its simple majority for the postponement of local government elections. What’s more alarming is the fact that it did so, on the strength of the leader of the country’s free trade union movement. Equally alarming is the fact that in answer, not one elected Municipal Corporation representative from the parties opposed to the ruling party resigned in disgust.

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