Achong’s reasons are obvious

THE EDITOR: A light bulb glows at its brightest before it is blown out. That is aptly applied to the MP for Point Fortin. A caller to a Sunday radio programme stated quite facetiously that Mr Lawrence Achong did not have the abdominal fortitude to remain in the Cabinet until the Sectoral Minimum Wage is legislated.  My take is that this is true only in the figurative sense. The reason for quitting as the Minister of Labour is both obvious and ostensible in spite of what his common law spouse is claiming now.

Mr Achong’s utterances at the Atlantic LNG camp is met with fitting responses from the Minister of National Security and the head of what used to be the Police Service Second Division (now Social Welfare Association). The union representative for the Train IV workers is so emotive that the issue of legitimate struggle is being unfortunately connected with the events that led to the ouster of a duly elected ruler as Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti.

It is also instructive to see who Mr Thompson’s legal representative is: A man whose political pressure group does not have a ghost of a chance to draw votes from the rising sun as long as the Silver Fox is around. The Sectoral Minimum Wage applies mainly to highly skilled workers and that is lost in the rubble when the trades people were lumped with unskilled workers following the legislation of the Minimum Wage.

JEFFREY M JOSEPH
Fyzabad