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PSA jubilant over TTRA’s failure
Published: 10 Apr 2010
President of the PSA Watson Duke, right, with employees of the BIR and Customs and Excise Division in celebrating the failure of TTRA Bill yesterday in front of the Financial Towers, Port-of-Spain. Photo: Shirley Bahadur
The Public Services Association (PSA) and employees of the Board of Inland Revenue (BIR) and Customs and Excise Division are celebrating the failure of the Trinidad and Tobago Revenue Authority (TTRA) bill at Thursday’s sitting of the Senate. Yesterday, the PSA, led by its president Watson Duke, and employees of the BIR and Customs and Excise walked the streets of down town Port-of-Spain carrying placards that read “Victory” and “Amen, Amen” in the wake of the failure of the bill brought about by the dissolution of Parliament at midnight on Thursday.
The PSA had been contesting the establishment of the Authority ever since it was first proposed in the 2010 budget. The PSA won the support of other unions and from the United National Congress which afforded PSA 2nd vice president Christopher Joefield a temporary senatorship so that he could contribute to the debate in the Upper House. Duke addressed the crowd declaring victory for the country’s public servants and all those in the working class. He said it was commitment of the employees and the support of others that eventually brought the bill and government to their knees. Duke said, “They thought we would give up! But look who is giving up now!”
He criticised Finance Minister Karen Tesheira for “bamboozling” the public and Senate by declaring the PSA and the Ministry had signed a memorandum of understanding, which he described as a blatant lie. Duke congratulated Joefield for representing the voice of the PSA in Senate. Joefield said he felt, “Satisfaction that the PSA had prevailed against the oppressive nature of the employer class against the working class.” He praised all the employees of the BIR and Customs and Excise for their support saying, “This effort that we started has culminated and resulted in the fall of the TTRA.” Joefield reminded employees that the battle was not over and urged them to keep the pressure up.
In relation to dissolution of Parliament he said, “The track record of our previous employer (PNM) was dismal. We not giving them a second chance!” Joefield encouraged all employees and members of the PSA to make their voices heard and vote in the upcoming general election. After months of protest and battle the PSA, employees of the BIR and Customs and Excise are celebrating the failure of the TTRA bill.
There is no victory here, so
There is no victory here, so there is no cause to celebrate. Manning has just postponed his decision to replace the BIR with the TTRA. You guys just don't get it, Manning's objective is to get a bigger majority than he has now, so that he can do what the hell he likes, unopposed.
I have heard so much double talk from labor, it's hard to tell where they stand on anything. What I know is that most members of labor, are still going to vote PNM. But like James Brown, Manning is just waiting to give you guys, the Big Pay Back.
It is now up to the UNC/COP to put the PNM out to pasture, or the people of T&T will certainly have to eat the bread that the devil kneads.
Do Ma'at and live.
Asé!!
Would the public believe it
Would the public believe it when i say that the laziest workers of all BIR and Customs, and i mean laziest, is on the TTRAMCol team with Andre? It's true. There were no advertisements for the posts, so tell me justin2, where is the transparency in that? They already started bad so it was only a matter of time for it to crumble. The Government is just not capable of getting anything right!
This is what the UNC gave
This is what the UNC gave us, so if Kamal wins she better not complain when these same lazy servants have the public waiting 2 years for a passport, 1 year for a BC, and hours for their divers permit.
Victory for them, so we back to square one when the opposition called for public service reform for years, but as soon as PNM started to put a plan in place they helped block it.
Kamla must be delusional to feel if she become PM they will not, protest against her, unless she is planning to give them all they want just to stay in their good graces.
She will have to pay the
She will have to pay the Piper!
PSA triumph general public
PSA triumph general public defeated. Eventually the citizens will wake up and smell the coffee.
Now that you have won a
Now that you have won a victory for lazy public servants I guess you can now look to outfitting your executives with Mercedes benzs like yours. Its a shame that people who could not even spell these things are using Union money to fix themselves. Also tell Nixon callender to cool himself and just drive the Prado. He would not have been able to afford even that in this life.
As far as I understand it,
As far as I understand it, the debate was brought to an end due to the dissolution of parliment. If PNM wins the next election it will be back to the drawingboard. It is only now clear to me why the PNM's contribution was so effortless as Wade Mark stated; Karen knew what was going to play on Thursday afternoon, why waste her time with an A game? Rolf Balgobin and Mervyn Assam were right; The BIR needs serious cleaning but the PNM, who made the monster, has no clue as to how to handle it. We will have to wait and see, come PNM or UNC, how all the king's horses and all the king's men (well educated at that) try to put it together for the greater good of our country.
All this country really needs is humility and respect from our leaders. Servant Leadership.
Now they can go back to
Now they can go back to doing what a lot of them do best without fear, sit around and yap yap yap, take long lunches, leave work early and accept bribes like normal
Since it was condoned by the
Since it was condoned by the UNC, this is future of our country should UNC win the election. NO vision.....Kamla has to pay the Piper!