Election 2010

Leader of the Opposition coalition, Mrs Kamla Persad-Bissessar, reminded her audience on a campaign platform recently that you should judge a person by what they do.  She used the old adage: 'By their deeds, you shall know them.'

According to members of the new political coalition in T&T, Mr Calder Hart is expected to return to the country on Monday 3rd May 2010 to be formally charged with perjury.  The COP's Vernon de Lima is reported to have said:

Funny how life unfolds.  Two weeks after writing how one should judge exiting the political stage, there are events causing me to ponder on political entries.

It would be nice if a couple professional journalists in T&T could produce a weekly fact-check column for the duration of the elections.  The idea being that they would select statements/policies from each of the platforms over the previous week, check for supporting evidence and then report whether the statements were true or the policies realistic.  It would also test if a candidate had a reasonable grasp  of their constituents' issues.

BC Pires, in his usual eloquent style, wrote about Ishmael Samad's recent protest against Calder Hart.  I think we can expand on his list of persons that Ishmael should aim his sledgehammer at.

Today, someone asked me why I had not written anything about the upcoming General Election here in Trinidad and Tobago. My response was that there was not much worthwhile to write.