Since Sunday, after the PPP’s announcement identifying President Ramotar’s Prime Ministerial running mate, speculation has been vigorously rife on two fronts: Why and how was that quiet-spoken, charming professional chosen? And why – in Heaven’s name – did she accept such a high profile political offer?
Not since Joe Hamilton’s 2011 defection from his PNC, whose anti-PPP street protests he led in 97/98, has such a campaign/political move caught me by impressive surprise. You see, I actually knew this lady reasonably well! When she was in the Foreign Affairs Ministry’s Registry (1976-1980) I liked her colleague and best-friend Marilyn. We all shared convivial “gaff”