Redux, thanks for starting this thread. I like your title "Folly!!" but my title would have been "One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward".
As a supporter of the coalition government, I am embarrassed at the recurring missteps it has taken the past 6 months.
It seems as if APNU+AFC loves controversy and is deliberately provoking the masses. How could supposedly intelligent people be so glaringly stupid?
In this particular specialty hospital deal, something smells obnoxious and it comes from the fact that Khemraj Ramjattan was Fedders Lloyd's lawyer. President Granger knows that.
Is the government setting up Mr Ramjattan for hostile attacks from the political opposition, the mass media and civil society?
Is there a hidden agenda to create the conditions to dump Ramjattan from the Cabinet?
APNU strategists know that the AFC cannot now leave the coalition because it will be "dead meat" among the masses, particularly among the embittered Indo community. Are they calculating that they could safely dispense with Ramjattan soon and still hold the coalition until 2020?
Only the other day I commented that Ramjattan may or may not remain Public Security/Home Affairs Minister by next Diwali. The government's signals don't augur well for the AFC and Ramjattan who most likely will be the first casualty.
Gil
I always look forward to reading your insightful and balanced analysis on certain issues.
Thank you, Your Excellency, but please be advised that I shall never endorse the PPP as long as that crookish Jagdeoite cabal is running the show at Freedom House.
I am enjoying the freedom to criticize my coalition government without fear of retaliation. So it must be.
Gil,
I do not envy you. Freedumb House needs reform,it will come. Patience is the key.