Our 14th Annual Convention finds our Party, the People’s National Movement. in continuing control of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago. This control, looking at the situation as objectively as possible, is likely to continue. I have come to this conclusion after an analysis of the forces, and interests in Opposition to the PNM. First, there are the political parties and their leaders. Notwithstanding all their predictions of doom, the country has not collapsed since the elections in May last year. Notwithstanding their persistent efforts at home and abroad to smear and denigrate our Police Service, we have no police state. Despite all their talk of repressive laws, they say what they like, meet as they like, the only problem being that it would appear that they cannot get people to come out to them. Their civil disobedience campaign proposal has had no impact. They spend their time be1abouring one another. The electorate can see all this for itself without any interference from the PNM. and will draw the inevitable conclusion that they are accustomed to draw for 15 years : if this is the sort of way these people behave in opposition, what can one expect of them if they ever form the government?
