ELECTIONS 2010

[AR!Ø]

Voluptuous Indian.

[W1nTry]

Giving 1 year is by no means generous, as was said (by you no?) we have no real idea what the deficit is or for that matter what the last regime left the current to cope with or pay off, so i'd venture a year is MIGHTY brief for them to make major turn arounds, look at the US, Obama is catching his ASS to keep ANY of his promises but that's a different debatable kettle of fish. And BTW I have a friend who worked (note past tense) Vinci (yuh know that little french canadian company doing the SMALL projects like the overpass @ grand bazaar, and just to let ppl know THEY DIDN'T GET PAID YET, so i'd venture to say alot of contractors HAVE NOT BEEN PAID YET... imagine that... hmm a couple hundred million to pay contractors still... hmm yeah... 1 year is SURELY enough time for them to turn around.. just saying.

[TriniXaeno]

stop makin excuses w1ntry!

the country say they want change, not excuses.

If PP ain't deliver change they might have to give the bakrs a chance next. lol

[Jdcrys_Shinkuu]

i agree with pnm being held accountable to show no one is above the law...may save him some face later on...
as for the bakrs hmmm we will certainly have less rapes lol

[W1nTry]

Its not excuses it's reality, I giving them 2 years, cause they have 1 to undo damage that patos do and 1 year to make good on their promises. You can't stop an oil tanker on a dime.

[UltimateGamer]

Nah w1n, 1 year is not to get all this things done, but to start to put the necessary procedures and policies in place to get those things done. I myself am quite uncertain about the financial state of the country (though i can ask my brother, he is an analyst in finance ministry), and that uncertainty means they have mess to clean. I just want to see them work on policies for mobilization of the above. Truly only time will tell (i mean we gave pnm 8 years and time certainly did tell), so 1 year to see how the start to enact "change" and the other 4 to be fair to the new gov't.

And that financial "uncertainty" is the reason why she should have stop making promises.

[W1nTry]

And that financial "uncertainty" is the reason why she should have stop making promises.

I Agree with this, I heard some of those promises (laptops for all children) and I was like... O_O... ummm un momento por favor!

[UltimateGamer]

Had a quick chat with my bro this morning, we aren't too badly off financially at the moment, so we should see some good things happening

[phoenix31tt]

lol so who want to take me up on this prediction...

promises not fullfilled.. and they would blame it on financial deficit... (like all the money done JUST as they reach in power )

[Exar_Kun]

@ Larutus
Euro would be the worst possible peg atm. Same with the pound. Euro is almost in freefall because of PIIGS and is trading at 4 year lows with analysts expecting it to hit PPP value, which would require another 10% depreciation. Pegging to a stronger currency is all about maintaining stability, euro is too uncertain. And pound is of course getting rocked in the wake of euro's problems. Another reason why USD is still best is because energy contracts are paid in USD. If our foreign currency inflow is mainly USD, a US peg is best.

US aren't in downturn. They certainly aren't booming but they've been officially out of recession since August. Consumer confidence is continually building, the only reason the stock markets are getting hammered is because of the news from across the pond.

Ah, ok. I consider fertilizer to be more of a manufacturing industry. No objections. I thought you meant actual food.


I think that anyone who is too worried about the PP governing strategy should console themselves with one ever present (and extremely UNfortunate) fact): it's just a different side of the same coin. There's no ideological difference here, just a different kind of conservative. There's not going to be any massive shift in policy like in other countries when positions shift to socialist, conservative and middling liberal.
Unfortunately we have absolutely no ideological choice whatsoever here, because both parties are just a different flavour of the same brand of tea. Probably one of the things that allows the race political divide to exist (and enough about that).
So all the people decrying that the end of days is near can relax, general government policy not going to change too much. What we can and should hope for is that the methods they use to implement their own ideas is more effective than what we saw under PNM.

[woodyear99]

Exar_Kun that is an excellent point indeed @ same general government policy

[Notnice]

found this on tuner

[UltimateGamer]

^^ lol, lar, thats almost exactly what i had in mind

[TriniXaeno]

and panday for president.

[phoenix31tt]

all the one year and two year we waiting to measure the performance of the new government....

120 Days.. That's the time it would take to measure their performance...
That is how long they said it would take them to accomplish 32 Items... so after 120 days... those 32 items should be checked of and out of the way.

So initial performance appraisal should ideally be based on that.

[Exar_Kun]

Interesting selections. Glad that Jack is in a power ministry. He's definitely going to tear it up. And hopefully the UNC trend of choosing former military officers as National Security will result in the lower level of crime we saw in those days.

But OMG, Minister of Health! Therese Baptiste-Cornelis, my favourite lecturer from UWI! That's the smartest freakin lecturer in management department. She doesn't know how to fail, I'm sure she'll get the health system in shape in no time at all. And a more principled person you couldn't possibly find.

[Exar_Kun]

Sure, not a problem.

Therese Baptiste-Cornelis. B.Sc in Math and Computer Science at UWI, M.B.A. at University of British Columbia, currently pursuing Ph.D at UWI in Entrepreneurship. She lectures at UWI in the department of management studies, she's the lecturer in strategy and entrepreneurship. Also has lectured at ROYTEC (strategy) and Lok Jack (Management Information Systems). Actually she would have taught Kamla, Wade Mark etc at Lok Jack when they were all doing their MBAs together. Her husband is Belgian, she's lived in Belgium and they have a business consulting company together. Very highly regarded in the field of management information systems, I saw a production of Harvard University on IT in T&T that she has co-credit on, the Harvard guy specifically sent the people to her to help. For the past election she ran the strategy for Fuad Khan's campaign. Anyone who went to the local meetings in that constituency might have seen her talking.

My personal observations. Excellent speaker, well organized and very quick thinking. She's not just another academic, definite real world experience and she can solve practical problems. Very principled and takes her ethics very seriously, not just a talker when it comes to that. As a lecturer she was always very approachable and helpful even when it came to work outside her courses.

I think if the problems at health are anything managerial and IT related, she's gonna do great things over there.

[W1nTry]

Study that Stacy (Oropouche West) I marked course work for in UWI... she was 2 years below me in Elec and Comp Eng... XD

[Redfish]

Wait wait wait.....she taught me while I went to Roytec. Waw congrats to her!!! Yeah hopefully she would be able to do some shaking up in how management works in the health system.