Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar’s actions since taking office in May 2010 are testimony to the fact that she leads and does so from the front. She is not a Shaggy, Scooby-Doo Type Leader. As I have said before in this space, “Leaders who are afraid to make decisions, because of uninformed fear, rabid political opportunism, self-aggrandisement, corruption of conscience, political Angina Pectoris, or unwillingness to be unpopular are the scourge of the earth.” I have said in this space that in Mrs Persad-Bissessar, “we have a leader who is not worried about leaving a legacy of election victories as her major accomplishment, but is much more concerned about the kind of country she will bequeath to her children, grandchildren, and the people of Trinidad and Tobago. Evidently Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar is not dwarfed by realpolitik that is influenced by a process of what I call “regional political osmosis”. She has shunned the description that P J Patterson attached to Jamaica’s politics — “a fight for scarce benefits and spoils carried on by hostile tribes which seem to be perpetually at war”.
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 22:09:01 +0000
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