?In the midst of a flur­ry of born-again Chris­t­ian zeal that seized the PNM bench­es dur­ing the fi­nal min­utes of Fri­day's Low­er House sit­ting, em­bat­tled Prime Min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning ex­pressed con­fi­dence that he would bounce back again to be the coun­try's po­lit­i­cal dar­ling. He stressed that East­er–to be ob­served by Chris­tians in the next two weeks–held a spe­cial "les­son for all politi­cians" that they had to per­se­vere to over­come their prob­lems. Man­ning is plagued by swirling ru­mours about his in­volve­ment with the Light of the Light­house of the Lord Je­sus Christ Church in the Heights of Gua­napo, his lat­est deal­ings with Ude­dott chair­man Calder Hart and the re­turn to promi­nence of the con­tro­ver­sial Yasin Abu Bakr af­fi­davit.

Be­ing a good Chris­t­ian, Man­ning said he knew he would be fol­low­ing in Christ's foot­steps and his po­lit­i­cal life would be res­ur­rect­ed. Man­ning, a vet­er­an politi­cian, has rep­re­sent­ed the PNM in San Fer­nan­do East for the past 39 years. (PB)