No difference in the politics: In the same boat
The party Leader of the Opposition Dr. Keith Rowley described in his no-confidence motion
against the PM and her People’s Partnership sounded too much like his
own PNM. And as Rowley inadvertently put the PNM’s record in office
under scrutiny once again, the result remained unflattering. The PM will
live on, not because her Government is better, but because the PNM’s
was much worse. The unfortunate reality of Dr Rowley’s no-confidence
motion is that the country is caught in the middle — between the PNM's
defence of a term that ended in scandal and the People’s Partnership
which is habitually prone to misfeasance.
The gist of Rowley’s complaint was that an unending series of events has demonstrated a lack of confidence in the PM. His words suggested “gross incompetence”, “failure”, “unwillingness to act”, “absence of effective management”, “persistent confusion”, “encouragement of wrongdoing” and “concern and lack of confidence”. Those words describe any week in local politics over the last 20 years of PNM and UNC/Partnership governance. And there was little chance that Dr Rowley would succeed with a comparison of the PNM’s eight years between 2002 and 2010 and the People’s Partnership’s 22 months.
An example of the problem with Dr Rowley’s tenuous line of attack was his response to the ministerial appointment of Dr Tewarie. His admonition that a good leader would be judged by the choices he makes quickly came back to haunt him, opening for consideration his own selection of a former CLICO Investment Bank (CIB) board member as a PNM senator. What has emerged so far from the public examination of CLICO’s affairs is that CIB had a pivotal role in the questionable loans and shoddy financial management which sent the Duprey empire cap in hand to the taxpayer.
Dr Rowley has uncharacteristically not considered his party’s situation, unless of course he has already been seduced by “do as I say but not as I do”.
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| Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and Leader of the Opposition Dr. Keith Rowley |
The gist of Rowley’s complaint was that an unending series of events has demonstrated a lack of confidence in the PM. His words suggested “gross incompetence”, “failure”, “unwillingness to act”, “absence of effective management”, “persistent confusion”, “encouragement of wrongdoing” and “concern and lack of confidence”. Those words describe any week in local politics over the last 20 years of PNM and UNC/Partnership governance. And there was little chance that Dr Rowley would succeed with a comparison of the PNM’s eight years between 2002 and 2010 and the People’s Partnership’s 22 months.
An example of the problem with Dr Rowley’s tenuous line of attack was his response to the ministerial appointment of Dr Tewarie. His admonition that a good leader would be judged by the choices he makes quickly came back to haunt him, opening for consideration his own selection of a former CLICO Investment Bank (CIB) board member as a PNM senator. What has emerged so far from the public examination of CLICO’s affairs is that CIB had a pivotal role in the questionable loans and shoddy financial management which sent the Duprey empire cap in hand to the taxpayer.
Dr Rowley has uncharacteristically not considered his party’s situation, unless of course he has already been seduced by “do as I say but not as I do”.
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