Prime Minister Manning rose in Parliament one Friday recently, buttoned his jacket, and announced to the entire country that the elderly gentleman who blocked the PM (during his walkabout) from entering his premises lives in Canada and comes to Trinidad during the winter months, implying that the incident was of no significance. Of course since then we have found out otherwise.
The PM assured us that the intelligence came from the PNM machinery. And with that he unbuttoned his jacket and sat down.
I seem to recall that a few years ago, the PM, with his same parliamentary gestures, also announced that he knew who Mr Big was, but to date nothing more has been said or heard of on Mr Big. Maybe all this time the expression "button your mouth" has been a more appropriate term to use than the PNM machinery to get information on Mr Big?
C Peters
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