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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
... employment," he shot back, "but Opposition MPs are allowed to work." Leader of Government Business Colm Imbert claimed that wasn't true, which is odd: most Opposition MPs do work, many of them as lawyers in their own firms, but some as employees of State-run bodies. But last week the rules that apply to other people didn't apply to Dr Gopeesingh, just as they didn't apply to Dr Keith...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Works Minister Colm Imbert is known for giving as much-if not more-than he gets. So we expect he is not going to be particularly impressed by those who are criticising him for his "dyslexic" denunciation of the reply to the Budget made by Siparia MP Kamla Persad-Bissessar. Mr Imbert's words have to be viewed in their whole context in that he held out that "everything in the Member's...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Like most educators in Trinidad and Tobago, I was horrified and enraged by Minister Colm Imbert's insulting and destructive likening of dyslexic people to quacks. In his budget presentation he criticised Mrs Persad-Bissessar's speech for among other things, as being "replete with factual errors", "inane", "puerile", "nonsensical and written by a quack who was dyslexic". I was also sorely...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Chaguanas West MP Jack Warner yesterday attacked the Government with full force during his response to the 2008/2009 Budget, raising the incompetence of various ministers, including Prime Minister Patrick Manning. Warner started his contribution dealing with Works Minister Colm Imbert for his personal attack on Siparia MP Kamla Persad-Bissessar last Friday. "We have come to this sorry...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
... After all, Patrick Manning's thumbprint is all over that document. The Speaker allows the likes of Colm Imbert to refer to members of the Opposition as dotish, dyslexic, and a host of uncomplimentary adjectives and does nothing, while at the same time he upbraids the opposition members for similar action. Despite being cautioned by several quarters on the effects of their exorbitant...
