PISSING MAD

I am pissing mad with the Prime Minstrel of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago and for ONCE I am ecstatic that I do not rely any more on the government for my daily sustenance.

Here's why--Having received and accepted the resignation of Attorney General Bridgette Annisette-George PM Manning recalled John Jeremie from his post, as Trinidad and Tobago's Ambassador to the Court of St James for Jeremie to take up once again the position of Attorney General in Trinidad and Tobago.

Local attorneys roundly and vociferously objected to Mr Jeremie's reappointment, because at his first outing as Attorney General under the People's National Movement Government(2002-2007) Mr Jeremie was admonished by the Privy Council for actions taken when a bunch of jokers tried and failed to have Satnarine Sharma, the sitting Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago, removed from office.

Fast forward to life in Trinidad and Tobago in 2009. Following Jeremie's reappointment, the Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago convened and members voted in favor on a motion of "NO Confidence" against Jeremie as Attorney General this time around. By it's actions the Law Association of TT, joined the rising chorus of communities demanding the immediate removal of Jeremie from the post.

Last week, in the heat of the dispute Jeremie reportedly returned to the United Kingdom to 'wrap up private business'. So the nation was taken aback when PM Patrick Manning confessed that Jeremie had done the 'honourable' thing and offered to him his resignation as Attorney General.

Manning's pronouncement, made at the tea break of last Friday's sitting of the House of Representatives (Lower House) appeared contrived, timed as it were to divert the population's attention away from the perception and 'implication' that fundamental rights and freedoms were being daily eroded in Trinidad and Tobago by this People's National Movement administration.

It seems Manning has never heard, that cockroach must not get in yard fowl business. While Manning was busy calling for the return to power of the democratically elected President of Honduras, his Local Government Minister, Hazel Manning (yes folks His WIFE) was hurriedly piloting a bill through both houses of Parliament for the postponement of Local Government Elections in Trinidad and Tobago, for the FOURTH consecutive year.

Let's forget for the moment Independent Senator Gail Merhair's convoluted crap of an 'explanation' for voting the way she did during this debate.The woman tripped over her tongue so many times I am surprised she didn't burst her lip in the process! Trinbagonians know stranger things have happened, inside and out of Parliament.

But back to the Manning and Manning Show. Today while his minions were being summoned en mass to Woodford Square, in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago's capital, Prime Minstrel Manning announced, that he had declined to accept Jeremie's resignation. because he surmised the motion of No confidence had no bearing on Jeremie's ability to perform his duties as the nation's Attorney General. In other words "Fuck off all of you. I am the Prime Minstrel and I do what I want!" Talk about delusional!

Now the ball rests in Jeremie's court. Let us see if he is as honourable a man as he is made out to be. And here's a hint John Jeremie; an honourable man would walk as quickly as he can and as far away from this fiasco as possible. Are you honourable enough?

It is time Inshan Ishmael and his One Voice group up the ante and implement programmes that will cultivate a change of attitude and thinking on the population of Trinidad and Tobago.

The Uniinhibited Diplomat