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Panday says Guyana incident cannot happen in tt

 
sgtdjones 2018-12-24 22:17:05 

Panday says Guyana incident cannot happen in tt

The collapse of the David Granger-led government in Guyana following a no-confidence motion cannot happen in TT due to the differences in political systems.

That’s the word from former Prime Minister Basdeo Panday who, in a telephone interview yesterday, also predicted that elections due in 2019 and 2020 will witness the two main parties, (the ruling PNM and the Opposition UNC) play musical chairs in the Parliament unless constitutional reform becomes a reality.

Local Government election is due in 2019 while general elections are due in 2020.

“If there is no change in the political system what will happen here will be a continuation of musical chairs in the parliament where either one of the racial groups or blocks will be in office. It will be as simple as that, it has been happening for what, 46 years, and will not change unless there is constitutional reform.”

Panday said this was his message at a function hosted by Chaguanas West MP Ganga Singh in Chaguanas last week.

“The call for unity that I have made is a call for people to be united, not necessarily parties, but people to be united in a struggle for constitutional reform.”


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Casper 2018-12-24 22:55:00 

In reply to sgtdjones

I thought Trinidad was this cool cosmopolitan country where the races and ethnicities intermingle and get along like peas in bod. Or is that only slightly at Wuk up time?

Or, moreso, is it that Trinis like to pretend, while just below the surface there is all this pent up tension just about to explode like a volcano, sending a not too surprising tsunami across the land?

Trinis, tell me it ain’t so.

 
ToTrini 2018-12-25 00:59:44 

In reply to Casper
Truth is as you said.
Trinis are a racist bunch
Indians don't like black and blacks don't like indian

Politics in TnT is all about race.

Check the social media for all the nasty racist comments.

I think when Trump was talking about shithole countries he was talking about TnT

Indians love Kamla, blacks love Rowley.

All a bunch of assholes

 
granite 2018-12-25 05:00:20 

In reply to ToTrini
Yet with all that hate and pent up emotions we have lived together since the early 19th century without any civil unrest between Afros and Indians,instead we marry each other and is now the Douglar capital of the world.When do you expect war between Indos and Afros,keep quiet you rabble rouser,go spew yuh shit somewhere else.We aint no Guyana.

 
mikesiva 2018-12-25 05:08:08 

Putting aside all the issues concerning Panday, this is what he's saying....

"The collapse of the David Granger-led government in Guyana following a no-confidence motion cannot happen in TT due to the differences in political systems."

Trinidad, like most of the Caribbean, have a straightforward first-past-the-post electoral system. Guyana's electoral system is more complicated, implemented by the British in the 1960s, in an effort to keep Jagan out of power. This system seems to ensure that Guyana's government will lack the number of seats to allow it to be an effective government.

 
Emir 2018-12-25 09:16:35 

In reply to granite

Truth is "Indo" Guyanese in here always trying to equate us and their society and with their nasty racism.

We have no similarity politically speaking with Guyana- in the surface it may seem similar but as you know, when you dig deep, the differences are also very deep.

I think it is what Bas was saying.

This is not to say, we don't have a few "Indo's" in Trinidad and the UNC party attracts all of them.

I would estimate that from that approximate 45% of the population that is of South Asian India decent, about 5% are probably "Indos."

 
Maispwi 2018-12-25 09:17:29 

In reply to mikesiva

It can happen in any English speaking Caribbean Country cause governance is based on majority. The other countries have not had to rely too heavily on coilition governments and have for the most part managed to avoid what happened in Guyana, more from party members circling the wagon than any thing else. There are hovever several cases of poltiticians crossing the floor and helping to form Governments

 
Narper 2018-12-25 12:33:40 

In reply to granite

In reply to ToTrini
Yet with all that hate and pent up emotions we have lived together since the early 19th century without any civil unrest between Afros and Indians,instead we marry each other and is now the Douglar capital of the world.When do you expect war between Indos and Afros,keep quiet you rabble rouser,go spew yuh shit somewhere else.We aint no Guyana.


Either you are ignorant of the state in T&T or you live in denial

ToTrini is right

What year did you leave T&T again?

As ToTrini said just check on social media for all the nasty racist comments coming out of t&t from both sides.

Have you been following what goes on in T&T parliament?

Do you believe there are no douglas in Guyana...do you believe on a daily basis Indo and Afro guyanese do not get along...have you seen the composition of cricket crowds at Providence?

 
bravos 2018-12-25 12:59:58 

In reply to granite

Yet douglas occupy 30% of the demographic and growing,very soon everybody in T&T gonna be mixed,that's some hate right there..oh the racial tension...Doh worry I does tell both side haul dey black and brown rass when they get out ah line,there are stupid people and differences of opinion everywhere and T&T is no exception...

Even among Africans and Indians of different shades in their own motherlands there exists 'differences',imagine people using Panday's own political agenda to make a broad parallel and ultimate conclusion,no sir different dynamics here!

Misery love company..


Jhaji Bhai!!

 
bravos 2018-12-25 13:10:54 

If you want honesty you can count on this guy,his words are always FACT in any scenario..

He mentions dem same politrickians...'

You can count on this brother for truth..

 
Narper 2018-12-25 13:12:00 

In reply to bravos

.Doh worry I does tell both side haul dey black and brown rass when they get out ah line,there are stupid people and differences of opinion everywhere and T&T is no exception..

cool cool

 
bravos 2018-12-25 13:15:29 

In reply to Narper

Political minions and miscreants mostly..attempting to exploit any semblance of a difference to push their broader agenda which is simply the lust for power..there's no active racial persecution here bro or even a chance of it happening,it simply cannot..everybody have ah Indian or a Creole family..and our differences are actually celebrated and supported in music culture public holidays etc....


Black man gonna stop eat doubles ,saheena,baigani,aloo pie pholourie and roti? I don't think so..Indian gonna stop eat pelau, oxtail and cow heel soup,salt-fish and provisions, souse and chow? I don't think so...

Lol it infused bro...

 
Emir 2018-12-25 13:26:57 

In reply to bravos

Well said.

I am not going to accept those "Indo" Guyanese trying to equate their racist shit with Trini society. Misery and hate loves company but we not in dat.

 
bravos 2018-12-25 14:04:54 

In reply to Emir

Facts and perspective always wins.. cool

 
Narper 2018-12-25 14:14:19 

In reply to bravos

Political minions and miscreants mostly..attempting to exploit any semblance of a difference to push their broader agenda which is simply the lust for power


The fact is it DOES exist....and exploited by politicians

.there's no active racial persecution here bro

I never insinuated this....not happening in Guyana either

.and our differences are actually celebrated and supported in music culture public holidays etc....

the above is also applicable to guyana

 
bravos 2018-12-25 14:33:19 

In reply to Narper

cool

 
granite 2018-12-25 15:46:35 

In reply to bravos
i agree with you bravos and Emir,as Emir says,on the surface we may appear the same as Guyana,but the difference is wide,as bravos says,there are idiots on both sides.I get the feeling by the post Irea,especially To Trini,he and others like him would like to see Indos and Afros at war,I told him we are not Guyana,full facking stop.

cool

 
bravos 2018-12-25 15:50:32 

In reply to granite

Eggzackly.. cool

It's curry chicken over here,'chicken curry' have to tun de pot and come again...it may need a whole chunkay over with more gyarlic and some Chief or Turban curry! That's how you curry chicken..dem chickening de curry and expect de same result in de pot!!

It may have a slightly similar smell but that's where the similarities stop...lol

 
Emir 2018-12-25 17:32:18 

In reply to bravos

Shot, not a man move big grin

 
StumpCam 2018-12-25 19:52:19 

In reply to bravos

Who seh we don’t chunkay curry??? lol lol

 
camos 2018-12-25 22:38:06 

how old is Panday, he still has all his faculties?

 
camos 2018-12-25 22:47:39 

the same thing could happen in other Caribbean countries, while there are two parties for the most part currently, nothing in the constitution stops multiple parties from entering parliament, hence anyone can have a government that is not a majority.

 
ToTrini 2018-12-26 02:48:02 

In reply to granite

How is Trinidad different from Guyana - Politically speaking - both countries mostly vote by race.

To Emir's point - UNC attract those indian, but buries his head in the sand by refusing to say the same for PNM who also attracts those blacks.


Why is it that we can party together but not vote the same way.


What have I said that says that I want war with both races. The reality is sweet TnT is not as sweet you pretend it to be. It is a very raciest country.

This is displayed on the social media every day

 
bravos 2018-12-26 11:18:58 

In reply to ToTrini

Social Media is your guide? Well life on the ground is ours..

 
bravos 2018-12-26 11:19:50 

In reply to StumpCam

you gaffu bun de gyarlic black ! cool

 
bravos 2018-12-26 11:20:07 

In reply to Emir

Guyanese ladies says "HaRRdeRRR" better and cuter than Trinis though ! No comparison..smile

 
BeatDball 2019-01-01 11:26:41 

Gee, what had happened with that tie between he, the lion & PMPM? Heheheheh. Seems like the lion's memory has gone to Arima! big grin surprised