Today we were reading some of the pre-May 2010 election news stories (partly because we can't seem to stop the the horror of what-if-Manning and his puppets-were-voted-back-in-and-were-still-in-control thoughts from creeping into our heads today after the terrifying news about the SIA) as we remember all our anxieties and fears leading up to the May 2010 election, patiently waiting to exhale.
We like to read the comments at the bottom of The Guardian's online articles (though we wish more of them would be fair), and we found this comment that we've posted below. Whoever you are JP, and whoever compiled the list, we loved the facts (teeny wish that some dates were included). Holla at us if you ever find this blog you like-minded folks!
PICK ANYONE AND VOTE OUT ...
Submitted by JP on 19 April 2010 - 8:37am.
PICK ANYONE AND VOTE OUT ... YES VOTE OUT MANNING .....
>1. Thirty percent (30%) of our citizens live below the poverty line
>though the Per Capita income is $15,000.00 US or $100,000.00 TT.
sometimes coined "the working poor"
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>2. Inflation went to double digit making the middle class poorer.
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>3. Between 2001 and 2009 there was massive increase in murders.
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>4. In 2006 there were 26 kidnappings for ransom.
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>5. Expensive blimps but no data on criminal activities.
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>6. One billions spent on CEPEP and no accountability.>
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>7. Sold out BWIA's Heathrow landing rights for a pittance and peanuts.
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>8. Closed down CARONI and put 9,000 people on the breadline Plus their dependants.
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>9. Babies continue to die at MountHope(less) hospital.
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>10. Faith Williams dies as a result of mismanagement at MountHope(less).
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>11. Refusal to give recognition to MPATT thus frustrating the democratic
>right of the doctors to representation they desire.
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>12. Wants the parliament for his office.
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>13. Has taken over the rugby field at St. Ann's for his rose garden for Hazel.
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>14. Spends one billion on a stadium in his constituency.
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>15. Wants smelters despite the people's opposition to it.
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>16. Makes deal with ALCOA for natural gas but refuses to tell the country
>what is the price at which gas is being sold.
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>17. Appoints his wife without credentials as Minister of Education.
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>18. Police abandon St. Joseph and Guanapo police stations.
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>19. No transparency in award of contract for rapid rail project.
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>20. Gives JUSAMCO a $137,000,000. 00 contract to pave airport runway after
>the same company botched the last job and cost the taxpayer $50,000,000.
>00.
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>21. Refuses to control the price of food and building materials making
>life really hard for poorer people.
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>22. Wild housing projects on arable lands.
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>23. Cannot control gang warfare in schools.
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>24. Romanticizes criminals as community leaders at CrownePlaza.
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>25. Court threw out Bakr's affidavit that manning made a deal with him not
>to pursue the $30,000,000. 00 owed to the state over the 1990 coup by the
>Jamaat, but we remember that the same Manning was about to give the
>Mucurapo lands to the Jamaat. Who is lying?
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>26. Gave Robinson two tax free cars, gives none to Hassanali. Remember who
>made him Prime Minister when there was an 18-18 tie?
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>27. Continues to punish the children of Biche by keeping the BicheHigh
>Schoolclosed.
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>28. WASA a national disgrace!Many still with out pipe bourne water.
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>29. Judiciary in crisis because they cannot get facilities and human
>resources.
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>30. Prisoners controlling crime from jail.
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>31. Agriculture being murdered .
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>32. Hospitals without drugs.Patients lie on the floor or bring own bed
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>33. Private nursing homes unregulated.
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>34. Only common sense and a level head required to be Minister of National
>Security - remember who said that?
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>35. National Security Council of which Manning is the head honcho cannot
>secure the citizens who now live behind bars while criminals roam the
>streets.
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>36. Presides over the exorbitant cost overruns of UDECOTT.
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>37. Cannot computerize the licensing office to help police trace vehicles
>but wants to achieve vision 20/20.
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>38.Schoolbuilding programme cannot get off the ground.
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>39. Early childhood centers stillborn.
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>40. Minimum wage for people is $9.00 per hour. Manning's pay cheque is as
>follows: Salary, House Allowance, Entertainment Allowance, Clothes
>Allowance, Car Allowance, Tax free car Allowances every two years, Travel
>Allowance, Holidays.
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>41. Meager pensions for senior citizens.
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>42. Meager disability allowances.
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>43. Meager pension benefits from NIS because of incompetence and
>mismanagement at the national insurance board.
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>44. Boynes as Minister of Sports building massive sports facilities for
>PNM areas and in his own constituency but discriminating against UNC
>constituencies.
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>45. Tried to fire Devant Maharaj - Manning embarrassed in court.
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>46. Gives Lee Sing a radio license within 24 hours - court declares
>discrimination.
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>47. Tried to get revenge against Marlene Coudray - Manning embarrassed in
>court.
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>48. Maha Sabha had to go to privy council to get a radio license - racial
>and / or religious discrimination - tell us father of the nation.
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>49. Forms state companies to avoid tendering and to promote political
>patronage.
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>50. Makes Prakash Saith head of major energy company and his brother Lenny
>Saith the Minister of Energy. Can this happen in any other country.
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>51. Cannot build a hospital in Tobago- massive corruption. 400 million
>disappeared and no hospital. Costs still climbing.
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>52. $60,000,000. 00 in spy equipment yet bandits roam freely.
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>53. VMCOTT used to buy 112 million in spy equipment.
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>54. No vehicles for police - woman on phone to police telling them there
>are thieves entering her property. Police responds "no car".
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>55. $53,000,000, 00 for retired Scotland Yard officers – murders remain
>unsolved.
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>56. Water taxis to Port of Spain- $15.00 one way. I thought mass
>transportation meant lower prices.
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>57. Institutes affirmative action policy under the guise of scholarship
>programme to Grenadamedical school.
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>58. No compensation for Rio Claroflood victims after two years.
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>59. Removes sixteen State Companies including the Central Bank from
>purview of the freedom of information act.
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>60. Brain power leaving Trinidad and Tobago- migration of trained
>professionals high.
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>61. East Port of Spain residents to be displaced for Manning's high class
>friends.
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>62. Ken Julien and Lenny Saith remains an untouchable under Manning and
>the PNM
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>63. Universityof Trinidad and Tobagospending money without any
>accountability - no accreditation after millions spent on contracts with
>foreign universities.
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>64. Traffic woes creating stress, destroying family life and reducing
>productivity.
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>65. Rural communities neglected in favour of mega projects like the
>Waterfront in Port of Spain.
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>66. National health insurance plan needs caesarean.
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>67. Large agricultural farm projects promised in budget - no sign of even
>a bodi tree.
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>68. Five ministers of pnm reported to integrity commission yet no action
>taken.
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>69. Senior police officer found with $$$$$$ in his office but no action
>taken.
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>70. ODPM (Office of Disaster Preparedness & Management) led by a Jamaican
>with long list of qualifications but cannot deliver a hamper to flood
>victims of Penal / Debe.
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>71. City of Port of Spain, the capital city “ a national dump, a national
>disgrace - dirty, vagrant infested. Manning lives in the city.
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>72. Deputy Commissioner of Police, glen roach does not know that there is
>a crime problem in Lange Park and Central Trinidad. If the police don't
>know, who will know?
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>73. Health Ministry cannot deliver Panadol in Hospitals but NWRHA hosts
>$400,000.00 Xmas party, with jerseys et al.
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>74. Panday jailed for not declaring a bank account. 300 others not
>touched. Many PNM haks given opportunity to correct integrity forms.
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>75. Manning cleared for taking free ride on Repsol jet. Repsol lands
>business deals in Trinidad! You could have fooled me!
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>76. Emperor wants Bombardier jet at a time when Bombardier is bidding on
>rapid rail project.
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>77. Jack Warner denied national honours, yet without him soca warriors
>would have remained at home and not gone to Germany.
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>78. Country in crisis, president Richards appointed by Manning wining with
>jean at Tribe carnival party. What morality and spirituality by the
>supposedly exemplars of the nation? Who cares about Vindra anyway?
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>79. Even judges are declaring that women are under siege - Hazel,
>Christine and Christine, Joan and Dianne feting!
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>80. Embassies being set up in countries from which no economic or cultural
>benefits can emerge.
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>81. Manning offering aid to African countries but people starving in
>Trinidad and Tobago.
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>82. Murderers walking free everyday out of the courts for poor policing
>and sloppy investigations - Mastrofski smiling with 10 million $$.
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>83. Million dollar eye in the sky remains blind without cameras.
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>84. Manning wants to be an executive president but does not want to do so
>by a one man one vote system - he knows he can't win.
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>85. Ellis Clarke hired to write a constitution to serve manning but then
>declares that the prime minister has too much power.
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>86. Maha Sabha has to go to court to force government to change Trinity
>Cross. Manning a born again Christian always thought that this is a
>Christian country. That is why they still say amen in the parliament.
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>87. National self help commission being used to fund Pentecostal churches
>as an election gimmick. The head of the national self help commission is a
>Pentecostal. Check how many Pentecostal churches have gotten funding
>compared to temples and mosques and other Christian denominations. Every
>Friday the head of the self help commission is with Manning in San
>Fernandoto dispense political patronage. Is this right or is this a case
>for the integrity commission?
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>88. SWMCOL paying rent for Baptist convention, transporting CEPEP workers
>to PNM conventions. Is this a case of the abuse of position? Does it have
>the approval of Manning?
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>89. PNM forms own medical board to hire foreign doctors undermining the
>medical standards.
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>90. Postpones local government elections gerrymandering !
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>91. Mega projects being announced without parliamentary approval and
>scrutiny - undermining the role of parliament. What will happen if with
>the help of COP and Dookeran he gets a two thirds majority and becomes
>executive president?
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>92. Does not eat chicken so high price of chicken is of no concern to him.
>Which member of his cabinet made him turn half vegetarian? Gets sada roti
>and chokha from Caroni. I wonder if it is a Hindu influence!
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>93. Cabinet Minister Rowley declares Trinidad and Tobagois a lawless
>country. What an indictment of the leadership of his boss manning and
>the PNM!
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>94. CabinetMinisterValleydeclares that crime is the no 1 problem and if it
>is not solved the pnm will lose the election. What an admission of
>failure. Time to fire the PNM!
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>95. Ongoing commission of inquiry into health sector. Condemns the
>administration of the health services - Manning takes no action to improve
>the health sector.
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>96. Minister of national security celebrates that there were only 19
>kidnappings in 2006. What a thing to celebrate? What kind of value does he
>place on the lives of our citizens? Does he have sisters and daughters,
>mothers and aunts / will it take the kidnapping of a family member for the
>pnm to wake up to the plight of the people?
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>97. Everybody knows the drug dens except the minister and the police.
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>98. Sugar manufacturing company up for sale - cane farmers in pain -
>Barrackpore to become ghost town.
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>99. Manning wants to review the role of UWI. He can't cope with what he
>describes as too many lecturers masquerading as politicians at the
>university. Manning really wants to shut up all those who don't agree with
>his foolishness. See the dictator in the making
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>100. Destiny is character!!! - do you understand this?
101. 2 Million dollars for a flag and defended it and then to say it was a mis-step.
102. P-A-P refinery going bust- from massive profits to massive losses.
103. Moves to bail out /buy Air Jamaica while Trinidadiand suffer
104. Two Summits costing billions and not real benefits for the citizens
105. Proposed steel mill at the cost of destroying the environment.ESSAR pull out
106. Accused in the doplomatic pouch issue heads to the Privy Council.Govt embrassment.
107. Proposed private jet with taxpayers funds while ordinary folks suffer
108. Caribbean airlines -attenpts to put PNM logo on plains
109. Increased hardship - with rise in gasoline,sugar,TTEC,WASA and NIS
110. Imposition of a prpperty tax with some increases of 1000%
111. NO rent accessment board -poor people to catch.
112. interfering with integrity act.
113. Many acting positions on order to control from white house
114. Secret scholarship list for party hacks and their children.
115. apparent Messiah syndrome- where white is right (and executive president )
116. No EMA approval plus court orger in plac eyet work continues
117. Minister breaks accounts "with insurance giant gone bust" and withdraws her money.
118. HCU receives no support from the govt while insurance giant did.
119. Coat of arms on PM car who wants to be executive president.
110. TTRA being pushed down our throats.
111. Did I mention the PNM Mansion. While madam breakfastes stay at the Hyatt.
112. Property Tax totally unnecessary.
113. ----- KEEP IT GOING FOLKS-----
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