Kamla Inherits a Country Running on Fumes
Kamla Persad-Bissessar hasn’t inherited a government; she’s inherited a crime scene. Less than five months of food reserves, a near-empty Heritage and Stabilization Fund, and a budget strangled by debt servicing paint a picture of a state teetering on financial collapse. Meanwhile, the machinery of governance is corroded: nine years without audited accounts, an auditor general denied access to key documents, and a string of politically connected contracts that bled millions from the treasury.
This isn’t merely mismanagement; it’s institutional decay. Under the previous PNM administration, Cabinet recusals and insider payouts became routine; a culture where conflict of interest was governance by default. Kamla’s task is not just to steady the books but to confront the rot that made this collapse inevitable.
Her response must be ruthless and transparent. Restoring credibility requires forensic audits, criminal referrals, and complete public disclosure; these are not optional. Her government will become just another chapter in the same pattern of corruption cloaked in campaign rhetoric if she insists on optics instead, inquiries with no results, and reform talk with no teeth.
An additional political caretaker is beyond Trinidad and Tobago's means. Instead of a reset button, the nation needs a reckoning. Now is Kamla's chance to either be remembered as the leader who kept this crisis alive or as the person who broke the system that caused it.
It's strange with your PNM underwear you didn't see such but her complaints. Don't feel sorry for me; my responses are factual.
Sarge
