NAR silent on campaign manager’s resignation

NATIONAL Alliance for Reconstruction (NAR) Political Leader Lennox Sankersingh yesterday declined comment on the resignation of the party’s acting campaign manager Dennis Singh. In a resignation letter dated August 1, Singh said he was resigning in protest of the Opposition United National Congress (UNC) reneging on its agreement with the NAR to appoint at least one NAR alderman to every corporation it won in last month’s Local Government Elections. Sankersingh (who was appointed deputy chairman of the Couva/ Tabaquite/Talparo Corporation) was the only one of five NAR nominees who was elected in accordance with that agreement.

Former NAR members Suruj Rambachan and Dr Allen Sammy were elected as aldermen and heads of the Chaguanas Borough and Penal/Debe Regional Corporations respectively. In his letter, Singh accused Sankersingh of selling out the NAR to the UNC. Singh slammed Sankersingh for trying to align the NAR with the UNC, describing the latter as “a failed party because it has too many rogues.” When contacted, Sankersingh told Newsday he had not studied Singh’s letter in detail and would prefer not to comment until he did. Prior to last month’s polls in which the UNC and NAR were defeated by the ruling People’s National Movement (PNM), Sankersingh was under fire from the NAR’s Tobago arm for renewing ties with the UNC. The NAR leader said he would meet with Tobago NAR chairman Christo Gift following the July 14 elections but has not done so to date.