Playing up to a fading star

The power play that has now emerged has clearly demonstrated that little boys are playing a game with the lives and future of all our people. They act like menial subordinates, playing up to a fading star. They seem unable to grasp the sensibilities of the hundreds and thousands of people who yearn for leadership change, from the bad and corrupt days of yesterday. We are all suffering under the yoke of mismanagement and corruption which eat away at our daily lives and renders us poorer, while those who sit in parliament become richer and richer — like parasites feeding on the blood of our poor people.

Are there any "men" in the UNC who can get up and rise above the clouds?

Sugar workers are now resorting to subsistence farming, after toiling for over 150 years in the sugar industry, and which gave birth to the present leadership, which has reduced them to their present level.

Those who surround Mr Panday are unaware that they are breathing life back into a man who has proved to be a failure to the entire community. They should in fact have persuaded him to step gracefully into the background and be an adviser to the new political leader, Mr Dookeran. That is the way to go.

C RAMCAHARAN

St Augustine