- 7 April, 2025
HOLA, ERLA
SOMEBODY upstairs must really like Erla Harewood-Christopher.
Not just the Cabinet and its globetrotting leader. There must have been a celestial involvement in the reappointment of the bungling police chief amid rampant murders, assaults, home invasions and other bloody crimes.
ROWLEY’S VANITY GHANA TRIPS
Rowley’s recent visit to Accra was his third since becoming Prime Minister, and there has not been any growth in trade and investments.
Not even the much-touted Ghanaian yams – said to be creamy, with a mild, nutty flavour – have crossed the Atlantic Ocean.
PNM SAFE SEAT FOR OBIKA
DEFECTOR politician Taharqa Obika is likely to be selected as the PNM’s candidate for either La Brea or Point Fortin.
Obika, who was in the official party of Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley that visited Ghana, is strongly favoured to contest a PNM safe seat.
PNM TARGETS MORUGA, P-A-P
THE ruling People’s National Movement (PNM) has zoned in on the electoral constituencies of Pointe-a-Pierre, now renamed Claxton Bay, and Moruga-Tableland.
FARIS AL RAWI VS. KAZIM HOSEIN
SAN Fernando West Member of Parliament Faris Al Rawi has become busy among constituents amid reports that ministerial colleague Kazim Hosein may replace him as the general election candidate.
IMBERT COMES UP SHORT
COLM Imbert, the Government’s poster boy of hubris, was always going to land in trouble with the people.
TAXPAYERS STILL PAYING $4.4 B PETROTRIN LOANS
TAXPAYERS still owe $4.4 billion for scandalous Petrotrin project cost overruns from the Patrick Manning era.
So far, the country has repaid $7.5 billion on a number of loans to finance several hugely expensive ventures at Pointe-a-Pierre.
OUTRAGE OVER ROWLEY’S PETROTRIN PLANS
THREE bidders for Petrotrin are outraged at plans to offer the operations to a giant corporation from India.
The bidders include a company owned by the family of a longstanding PNM-friendly industrialist.
POLITICAL ‘ANALYSTS’ AND ELECTION OBSERVERS
The seven-member mission was led by – hear this – Trinidad and Tobago’s Chief Elections Officer Fern Narcis-Scope.
A year earlier, there were non-partisan election observers in the Bahamas, and eight months prior, monitors oversaw the poll in St. Lucia.
MEN WHO THINK THEY CAN COOK (THE BOOKS)
A MEMBER of Parliament took home a total of $752,405.96 in 2023 for the rental of properties to government ministries.
Another MP got $225,378.48 for another property rental last year.
