Say it isn't so...

The Pandays have been played out of the election 2010, but their names are called on platforms and their time is sought on talk shows.
Weren't they deemed irrelevant?
Maybe in his haste to buy himself a party, Jack Warner forgot that the people who made up that particular party have deep communal ties and are very much into family and tradition.
That they needed help to get back into power to redress some wrongs was clear, but they did not expect the devil they slept with to cause them so much pain.

We of the East West Corridor will never really understand what the name Basdeo Panday means in the sugar belt, and why should we? We are not children of sugar workers, nor do we owe our history and our future to the whims of agriculture.

We of the middle class are even worse off, because we will never have to know the best treatment for snake bite, nor will we have the scars and corns of a 'tree canal and a swipe'.
To those who have and do, Mr. Panday symbolized the word rise, as he took the peasant class from the cane field to the Parliament and then to the very seat of Government.
Had he been less inclined to pursuits of the flesh and so eager for acceptance that he allowed dubious riders and hangers on to taint him and his moment in the sun, history would be different for him and his 'People'.

I am a student of history, and I think our country still owes this man respect.
Until we can put aside life and time to match what he has done for hundreds of thousands of people, we dare not disrespect him; when they say we stand on the shoulders of giants, he is a giant.
He deserves a little more respect than we are offering right now.