LEADERSHIP is meant to mean something in people’s lives and to essentially change lives while making a difference by positively impacting the people the leader represents.
It is astounding that the Peoples National Movement (PNM) could criticise the Opposition Leader and blame her for everything under the sun in a tasteless and utterly reprehensible way by using its influence on the mainstream media or by their Women’s Arm machinery.
Mr Victor Roberts is a private citizen and his action to highlight the 37 deaths on Christmas Eve in T&T by turning up with a coffin at the minister of health’s private home just shows how desperate he’s trying to convey a message that we all are dying out here and the minister and his team are doing a terrible job to counteract the Covid-19 infected people at the nation’s hospitals.
The PNM leadership must have the capacity to be able to motivate, to bring together and to stimulate our citizens to strongly deliver on a common goal.
That is to effectively assist the people now in their time of need and to effectively manage the Covid-19 impact on our citizens’ lives. Leadership is driven by the leader’s attitude, conduct, assumptions, and ideals. So the Minister of Health Terrance Deyalsingh core values must be propelled by his own private relationship with his God and a belief to follow his God’s commandments. Something he clearly lacks, in my humble opinion, as he continues to disappoint our citizens, the people affected by the ravages of Covid-19 and their loved ones.
Please note there are however, boundaries beyond which we would ever go to for the advancement of a cause. Yet what is good for the goose must be good for the gander as all of us remember when the trade unions whole heartily supported the PNM and turned up in from of the then prime minister’s private home protesting, chanting and beating a bobolee, trying to advance their own cause and get rid of a then siting PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar.
How Terrance Deyalsingh and the leadership of the PNM can condone the way the health system has been operating during this pandemic with more than 450 deaths in December 2021 is beyond me?
If one were to use any teachings of leadership one would understand that people ultimately perform duties for persons who they trust and one cannot attain respect of the people and lead them unless those people themselves give that person that right to lead.
Oh, how I long for the leaders of yesteryear when we saw true statesmanship through proper leadership techniques. We need that back to impact our nation positively by gaining credibility through triumphant results. Where the words from the book Animal Farm come back to me and the quote “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
This is the proclamation by the pigs who control the government in the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell. The sentence is a comment on the hypocrisy that rings true today in this government that proclaims the absolute equality of its citizens but gives power and privileges to a small elite.
This right to lead can only be given to the leader when trust is earned legitimately and established.
Establishing trust can be very difficult in some cases, but the people have had enough of the bunglings of this Minister of Heath to reach this stage of desperation to forgo time with their own family on Christmas Day and go to protest at his home.
Mr Victor has really reached his limit and feels disenfranchised with only 60 ventilators in the country and no one listening. He feels he has nowhere to turn and no way for the administration to hear his anguish; he’s reached his limit, his boiling point.
How can supporters of the PNM party condemn Mr Victor’s action without condemning a previous protest outside the home of another political leader, then-prime minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar.
The sycophants’ biasness is heard loud and clear in this one in particular as they rant and rave over this new injustice, that is why all I have to say is karma – what is good for the goose is good for the gander.
(Neil Gosine is an insurance executive, the North East Regional Coordinator of the United National Congress and a former chairman of NP. The comments and opinions expressed by him in this column are not necessarily those of AZPNews.com, a division of Complete Image Limited.)
Commentary: A Leadership Crisis in Health
LEADERSHIP is meant to mean something in people’s lives and to essentially change lives while making a difference by positively impacting the people the leader represents.
It is astounding that the Peoples National Movement (PNM) could criticise the Opposition Leader and blame her for everything under the sun in a tasteless and utterly reprehensible way by using its influence on the mainstream media or by their Women’s Arm machinery.
Mr Victor Roberts is a private citizen and his action to highlight the 37 deaths on Christmas Eve in T&T by turning up with a coffin at the minister of health’s private home just shows how desperate he’s trying to convey a message that we all are dying out here and the minister and his team are doing a terrible job to counteract the Covid-19 infected people at the nation’s hospitals.
The PNM leadership must have the capacity to be able to motivate, to bring together and to stimulate our citizens to strongly deliver on a common goal.
That is to effectively assist the people now in their time of need and to effectively manage the Covid-19 impact on our citizens’ lives. Leadership is driven by the leader’s attitude, conduct, assumptions, and ideals. So the Minister of Health Terrance Deyalsingh core values must be propelled by his own private relationship with his God and a belief to follow his God’s commandments. Something he clearly lacks, in my humble opinion, as he continues to disappoint our citizens, the people affected by the ravages of Covid-19 and their loved ones.
Please note there are however, boundaries beyond which we would ever go to for the advancement of a cause. Yet what is good for the goose must be good for the gander as all of us remember when the trade unions whole heartily supported the PNM and turned up in from of the then prime minister’s private home protesting, chanting and beating a bobolee, trying to advance their own cause and get rid of a then siting PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar.
How Terrance Deyalsingh and the leadership of the PNM can condone the way the health system has been operating during this pandemic with more than 450 deaths in December 2021 is beyond me?
If one were to use any teachings of leadership one would understand that people ultimately perform duties for persons who they trust and one cannot attain respect of the people and lead them unless those people themselves give that person that right to lead.
Oh, how I long for the leaders of yesteryear when we saw true statesmanship through proper leadership techniques. We need that back to impact our nation positively by gaining credibility through triumphant results. Where the words from the book Animal Farm come back to me and the quote “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
This is the proclamation by the pigs who control the government in the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell. The sentence is a comment on the hypocrisy that rings true today in this government that proclaims the absolute equality of its citizens but gives power and privileges to a small elite.
This right to lead can only be given to the leader when trust is earned legitimately and established.
Establishing trust can be very difficult in some cases, but the people have had enough of the bunglings of this Minister of Heath to reach this stage of desperation to forgo time with their own family on Christmas Day and go to protest at his home.
Mr Victor has really reached his limit and feels disenfranchised with only 60 ventilators in the country and no one listening. He feels he has nowhere to turn and no way for the administration to hear his anguish; he’s reached his limit, his boiling point.
How can supporters of the PNM party condemn Mr Victor’s action without condemning a previous protest outside the home of another political leader, then-prime minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar.
The sycophants’ biasness is heard loud and clear in this one in particular as they rant and rave over this new injustice, that is why all I have to say is karma – what is good for the goose is good for the gander.
(Neil Gosine is an insurance executive, the North East Regional Coordinator of the United National Congress and a former chairman of NP. The comments and opinions expressed by him in this column are not necessarily those of AZPNews.com, a division of Complete Image Limited.)