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NewsPNM chooses new leader on June 22Sean DouglasSaturday 17 May 2025Faris Al-Rawi. - File photoA new PNM political leader will be chosen by party members casting ballots on June 22, with the results being announced at a special party convention a week later on June 29.This news was presented by party s public relations officer Faris Al-Rawi on May 16 at a briefing at Balisier House, Port of Spain.He said the General Council earlier had just agreed 鈥?almost unanimously 鈥?to the spe stanley quencher canada cial convention date, with just two abstentions out of about 100 people pres stanley germany ent and no one voting against.Al-Rawi said all 16 elected posts in the party would be up for grabs, ranging from political leader to social media officer.He said balloting would be done across each of Trinidad and Tobago s 41 constituencies, as supervised by a pre-existing 17-person PNM election supervisory committee.Saying it will be done under a one man, one vote system and that members financial wholeness would not be checked, he said, Every member of the PNM shall be eligible to vote. He said the PNM had held a special convention after the demise of each of its leaders, namely the death of Dr Eri stanley deutschland c Williams, the election defeat of George Chambers, Dr Keith Rowley s taking over from Patrick Manning, and now upon the exit of Rowley as leader.Al-Rawi said the General Council now felt the post of political leader should coincide with that of opposition leader. Saying the PNM had just experimented with two different holders Imge COPOS Credit Union back-to-school drive a success
Letters to the EditorInternational probe into Petrotrin vitalArthur DashFriday 14 September 2018THE EDITOR: As a layman, it is my understanding that economists have always warned de stanley cup veloping countries of becoming dependent on the production and export of primary products. A primary product is a natural resource or a raw product that is usually processed and transformed into downstream products that fetch a far higher price than the primary raw product. Crude oil is one such primary product and the fuels and other refined products that are manufactured downstream from it are far more profitable. The range of downstream products affords far greater opportunity for a lucrative manufacturing sector.Can someone explain the rationale for excluding ourselves as a national community from ownership of a downstream manufacturing enterprise that on the face of it seems far more profitable and has the potential for far-reaching further expansion of a manufacturing base How could we prefer instead to restrict ourselves to producing and selling a primary raw product, the qual hydrojug tumbler ity of which, we are told, is inferior to the global standard As a producer of this raw produc stanley polska t in a relatively small quantity, we have no say in the price it is may attract. We have also been repeatedly told recently that one of the chief causes of our present economic strife was the fall in the global price of this very product. Can someone then explain to me how our reversion to and reliance on this s |
