Gail Alexan­der

?A no con­fi­dence mo­tion against Prime Min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning now be­ing for­mu­lat­ed by PNM's Diego Mar­tin West con­stituen­cy is ex­pect­ed to be tak­en to PNM's Gen­er­al Coun­cil in two weeks, it has been con­firmed.

The mo­tion was dis­cussed at Mon­day's meet­ing of the ex­ec­u­tive of Diego Mar­tin West which is rep­re­sent­ed by for­mer min­is­ter Kei­th Row­ley. Jane Si­mon, elec­tions of­fi­cer of the ex­ec­u­tive, said: "We had a meet­ing and we dis­cussed some rel­e­vant is­sues per­tain­ing to the Gov­ern­ment as par­ty in Gov­ern­ment would do and a mo­tion was raised but these are in­ter­nal things that should go through the process in the par­ty be­fore it reach­es out­side." She de­clined de­tails. Robert Cezair, who said he was au­tho­rised to speak for PNM's Diego Mar­tin West unit, said: " I don't know any­thing about any mo­tion."

Cezair added: " Our meet­ing was closed and I'm not at lib­er­ty to dis­close con­stituen­cy busi­ness pub­licly. What tran­spired on Mon­day was nor­mal con­stituen­cy busi­ness. "We dis­cussed cur­rent is­sues in the par­ty. There was no de­ci­sion to do any­thing. I don't know any­thing about this mo­tion talk."

A cou­ple mem­bers of PNM's Diego Mar­tin West ex­ec­u­tive yes­ter­day dis­as­so­ci­at­ed them­selves from the mo­tion yes­ter­day. But an­oth­er Diego Mar­tin west ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cial said the mo­tion was to be dealt with in­ter­nal­ly be­fore it is tak­en to PNM's Gen­er­al Coun­cil. The next Gen­er­al Coun­cil meet­ing is on the af­ter­noon of March 20. This would be pre­ced­ed by an­oth­er in PNM's se­ries of mo­bil­i­sa­tion con­fer­ences at Cas­ca­dia Ho­tel.

PNM's oth­er big event this month is its March 27 con­fer­ence at Ch­aguara­mas Con­ven­tion Cen­tre to mark the 100th birth an­niver­sary of PNM founder Dr Er­ic Williams. PNM pub­lic re­la­tions of­fi­cer Jer­ry Narace said yes­ter­day he had not seen any mo­tion. PNM chair­man Con­rad Enill did not re­ply to calls. Mean­while, PNM Diego Mar­tin Cen­tral chair­man Dr Joe Laquis said his con­stituen­cy was "not go­ing to do things to please peo­ple who have per­son­al vendet­tas." Laquis added: "We'll wait for the re­sults of the Uff Com­mis­sion on Ude­cott and oth­er is­sues and if for­mer Ude­cott head Calder Hart is vin­di­cat­ed, I may well ask my con­stituen­cy to pass a mo­tion call­ing for his re­in­state­ment as Ude­cott head."

Laquis said if Hart was im­pli­cat­ed in any­thing, "then the DPP and act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er will do their job." Laquis, who had head­ed the La­que­tel com­mu­ni­ca­tions out­fit, had said last year that the La­que­tel Build­ing had been sold to some­one who even­tu­al­ly sold it to Ude­cott. Laquis has main­tained si­lence on the iden­ti­ty of the buy­er who lat­er sold it to Ude­cott.

Laquis, who said he was friends with Hart, added yes­ter­day: "Not good, good friends, but friends and I al­so know thou­sands of peo­ple." He added: "PNM is 54 years old and we've been through worse sit­u­a­tions than this. We'll wait for the Uff Re­port which must show what has tak­en place..."