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Subject: Is The NDC Self-Destructing?
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Just read this commentary in the March edition of Barnacle newspaper and thought I'll bring it to your attention. The whispers, hints and innuendoes that all is not right in the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the government showed its clearest sign recently with a two-page spread in one of the local weekly newspapers. The editorial and commentary in The New Today may ordinarily have been dismissed were it not for the fact that many have concluded that the paper and its predecessor – Grenada Today – have been conduits through which insider information is fed. Many hold the view also that Prime Minister Hon. Tillman Thomas often takes a queue from the papers on what he should and shouldn’t do to, and with, his ministers. So eyebrows were naturally raised when the two-page spread, in a combined onslaught, practically accused embattled Foreign Minister Peter David of treachery and of leading a “gang’’ to destabilize the NDC government. In contrast, the paper subtly suggested that Finance Minister Hon. Nazim Burke has no ambition other than to remain in his present portfolio. It held up Mr. Burke – who seems to be benefitting the most from the apparent turmoil and attacks against Foreign Minister David – as being the object of jealousy because he is “brighter’’ than others inside of government. Those bent on “destabilizing’’ the government were described in the paper as “brainless,’’ the “Gang of Four’’ and the “Four Musketeers,’’ with hints that Prime Minister Thomas should fire them. “If PM Thomas only decides to use some of his powers then all four Gang members could be fired at anytime. Like they forget what happened to Jimmy Bristol last year,’’ the paper said in a commentary. It adds, in a complementary editorial, that what is happening at the cabinet level and in government’’ is that “the trouble-makers thought that PM Thomas was an easy push-over.’’ However, the so-called “trouble-makers,’’ according to the editorial, “have now discovered otherwise and this is proving to be very frustrating to them, hence their open hostility in some quarters’’ to the Prime Minister “and his principles.’’ Grenadian journalist and commentator Hamlet Mark is a veteran of political campaigns in Grenada. He sees what’s taking place in the NDC government as leading downwards, unless something is done urgently to arrest the situation. He says if the NDC “is to become a one-term government, it is doing a brilliant job at it.’’ Mr. Mark advocates the need for “an uprising from the rank and file’’ members of the NDC to save the party from self-destructing. He says it’s “simplistic’’ and “hogwash’’ the idea being perpetuated by “so-called friends and advisors to the Grenada cabinet’’ that there is some attempt to remove Prime Minister Thomas. “Under the NDC’s own rules,’’ writes Mr. Mark in a commentary, “Prime Minister Tillman Thomas cannot be challenged while he remains in power and as Prime Minister. The only way he can be removed is if he is convicted in a court or decides to resign.’’ Al Phillip grenadaoverseascommittee@gmail.com |
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