Political doctors, patients and alcohol drinkers

Take for seven full days(no less than five days) with a glass of water: Absolutely no alcohol or the medication is rendered ineffective.

Trade Union leaders must now decide if they are going to drink the political alcohol that will jeopardise the life of the political patient.

What is being said on trade union platforms could affect the fortunes of the whole nation. Seven full days (five years) is what the collective unions gave the previous Partnership government. One does not have to lead a political party to have a profound effect in a very small Third World country.

Look at Makandal Daaga and how he changed the social fortunes of the collective Afro/Indo working class.

Consider the facts of the political illness. The trade union movement in TT is comprised of members from all races, religion and political persuasion. Foolishly it would now seem, the unions opted to stop their previous medication when the new coalition doctors arrived on the scene in May 2010. After five years of alleged lies and non corporation, it is alleged, they were forced to return to the only other fully qualified doctor on the political scene. They did this because of broken promises and gross disrespect.

One prime example is that management at State run Petrotrin gave themselves millions of dollars in allegedly illegal extra salary payments while telling workers that there was no money for them. It has been allegedly said that the medication dispensed in 2010 by the PP coalition doctor only enriched the fiscal health of selected friends and family of that administration.

A hasty, ill thought out alcoholic drink is not politically good. Do we allow the PNM medication the full five years to work or do we come off plain water and join the unions in the rum shops? One year equals less than one day on the PNM tablets. It is not enough time to expect a cure. The decision is as important as that which is being played out in America for all to see on social media. Their citizens argue over whom to trust and if they should even change their doctor.

I am a concerned self appointed political doctor asking: Will it be tablets with water for seven days or political alcohol? Withdrawal side effects for the TT working class will be intense scratching for inestimably long years accompanied with severe political vomiting. Selected races in our multi ethnic country will succumb to dehydration brought on by the severe vomiting.

Is the powerful President General of the OWTU a drinking man?

Lynette Joseph via email