11-3

Well thank God Trevor Sayers lost his deposit.

Remind me to tell you all how I know this man. But not now, now let's look at the intital results.

PNM Strongholds remain PNM strongholds . PNM "tillah Dead" Point Fortin surprised me actually. I'll have to look at the official EBC numbers but from what I gathered from the news, its been a close call. San Fernando was a surprise, but more surprising was that Diego Martin went PP. I feel the PP would have gotten more in POS had the COP been given a chance to run there. Just my thoughts on the matter. (NOT Trevor Sayers mind you) I really DO believe that man's going up caused a SIGNIFICANT number of COP people to stay away from voting. As I had said before the GE: low voter turn out means that strongholds remain strongholds. In this case the PNM voters ACTUALLY stayed away from voting. This could be one reason for the wins in Tunapuna and Diego Martin.

Just a thought.

Now as usual I am calling on the Government to START the process to reform both the Constitution (as promised) AND as a result Local Government. Remember this will be all for naught if the system remains as it is, it just shows that the UNC would rather keep the status quo under the guise of "Power to the People" and go along happily.

I would NOT really want a repeat of 1990 thank you very much. This time this PP Government needs to be in it for the long haul and the PNM needs to come out of the 18th century slave master mentality and evolve or die.

I'll speak further on the LGE when I get the results. Till then, keep your ears on the ground and listen for the thunder.

Oh and I'm going to be writing about the 1990 coup just to let you all know why the PP needs to be careful. Stay tuned for that.

The FINAL Results.

As Promised Final Winners after recounts and the EBC declared. As of today all recounts were cancelled. In total over 70% of Trini's came out to vote. That is an increase of over 5% than the election in 2007. Remember what I had said about voter turn out. Manning was truly living in an another world. These is so much to say about this election, that has not been said already. But what you do remeber is that voting DOES work. Always remember that, you CAN initiate the change you want by voting. If Kamla et al DON'T perform, then we vote them out to. Remember that.

Constituency	COP	NNV	PNM	TOP	UNC
Arima	Roger Samuels		Laurel Lezama-Lee Sing
Arouca/Maloney	Anna Maria Mora		Alicia Hospedales
			Joseph Ross
Caroni Central			Sheila Madoo-Kurban		Glenn Ramadharsingh
Caroni East		Prakash Persad	Harold Ramoutar		Tim Gopeesingh
East			Mustapha Abdul-Hamid		Stephen Cadiz
West			Ronald Heera
Couva North			Nal Ramsingh		Ramona Ramdial
Couva South			Anthony Khan		Rudy Indarsingh
Manzanilla			Darryl Mahabir		Colin Partap
D’Abadie/O’Meara	Anil Roberts		Karen Nunez-Tesheira
Central	Nicole Dyer-Griffith	Melissa Ochoa	Dr Amery Browne
Diego Martin North/East					Garvin Nicholas
Diego Martin West	Rocky Garcia	Zawadi Abu Bakr	Keith Rowley
			Joel Primus		Chandresh Sharma
La Brea			Fitzgerald Jeffrey		Ernesto Kesar
La Horquetta/Talparo			Nadra Nathai-Gyan		Jairam Seemungal
Laventille East/Morvant		Umar Khan	Donna Cox
Laventille West	Kwasi Mutema		NiLeung Hypolite
Lopinot/Bon Air West	Lincoln Douglas		Neil Parsanlal
			Clifford Campbell
Moruga/Tableland			Augustus Thomas		Clifton De Coteau
Naparima			Faiz Ramjohn		Nizam Baksh
Oropouche East			Christin Ramdial		Roodal Moonilal
Oropouche West			Heather Sedeno		Stacy Roopnarine
Pt Fortin	Nyahuma Obika		Paula Gopee-Scoon
Pointe-à-Pierre			Christine Kangaloo		Errol McLeod
Port-of-Spain North/St Ann's West		Fuad Abu Bakr	Patricia McIntosh		Annabelle Davis
Port-of-Spain South	Gisselle Russel	Travis Mulraine	Marlene McDonald
Princes Town			Anwarie Ramkissoon		Nela Khan
San Fernando East	Carol Cuffy-Dowlat
San Fernando West	Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan	Indrani Abu Bakr	Junia Regrello
Siparia			Vidya Deokiesingh
St Ann's East		Christian Dookie	Joanne Thomas		Annabelle Davis
St Augustine	Prakash Ramadhar		Balchandra Sharma
St Joseph			Kennedy Swaratsingh		Herbert Volney
Tabaquite			Farouk Mohammed		Suruj Rambachan
Tobago East			Gizel Thomas-Roberts	Vernella Alleyne-Toppin
Tobago West			Terrence Williams	Delmon Baker
Toco/ Sangre Grande		Neil De Silva	Eric "Pink Panther" Taylor		Rupert Griffith
Tunapuna			Esther Le Gendre

Meanwhile the PNM is in it process of imploding, as predicted. There is no doubt in my mind that Keith Rowley will stay as Opposition leader, but the fall out from that may be that the PNM as a party will have to find itself on life support for a good few months. However as one commentator put it: Chnage is good and for teh PNM its even better, they will be a party that will evolve, they have no choice, eveolve or become a footnote in history.

On another serious note. This new government must be very careful. It MUST not do the old ways of providing "work for the boys" in the ministries. More on that later. Let's see how the first 120 days go.

Life goes on. Now start cleaning up all those posters on the walls and T&TEC poles!