STORIES

ISSUE 123 Friday 25th SEPTEMBER, 2015
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GOOD RIDDANCE
WADE MARK!
Story by Editor: ANTHONY ‘LEXO’ ALEXIS
UNC-yellow chariot, like ed rulings have filled us
conjoined twins mutually with utter repugnance as
‘Please Be Seated. I am on my legs’
Hello.
a denouement, a crown of inseperable, mutually entwined
in suppressing the then Opposition.
he rode roughshod over the
Just mention the thorns that fittingly marks
name Wade Mark his political requiem from views, and comments from History will record that
to any die-hard patriot of
Trinidad and Tobago, a
the High Chair.
Good riddance to a “little
the Opposition side of the
Parliament.
Mark, unarguably the worst
House Speaker with which
person who believes in boy” in big man’s clothes, Good riddance Wade our nation has been bedevilled,
the symbolism of our red, who was always full of Mark…
had used the hallowed
white and black flag.
And what some of the
things it signifies for our
bluster, and dropping “hard
talk” talking down to then
Opposition leader Dr. Keith
Never before in the history
of our beloved country
have we seen a House
halls of the House of Representatives
to stage an ongoing
crucification of Rowley,
democracy, nobility of Rowley, Colm Imbert, Speaker so contemptuous, painting him as sinner and
purpose, fairness in Parliament-
the highest court in
the land – plus the tenets of
good governance; a mere
mention of the name Wade
Mark in an apparent curtsy
to such and such an individual
and you can quite possibly
end up seeing yourself
Marlene Mc Donald, and
Jack Warner in particular
as though, they were his
school children in his classroom,
not Parliament.
But let’s rewind to day
one: Wade Mark clearly
squandered a golden opportunity
to demonstrate
so dismissive, so repulsing
of assertions, arguments
coming from the Opposition
bench and from Jack
Warner who was voted into
office by some 18,000 plus
voters back in 2010.
I daresay, in a vulgarly
perverse twist of logic and
Kamlie as saint. Oh, what
an incongruity.
How can we then, in all
reasonableness forgive and
forget the incorrigible Mark
when he allowed yard fowl,
the former Tobago MP
Vernella Toppin the privilege
and power of Parliament
being held up to ridicule, to succeeding generations
shall I say it? Yes I shall,
to cast her venomous,
contempt and on the receiving
the true meaning of expected fairness at the scandalous lies, “make-up”
end of a volley of cussouts,
impartiality, objectivity High Chair, what the na-
stories on Rowley’s birth.
in rapid fire succes-
entrusted in the lofty potion
got instead was a UNC Mark, remember well,
sion hurled at you. sition of Speaker of the Speaker of the House. had given tart tongue Toppin
a Parliamentary pass,
In the post-election season,
that is the type of dis-
But he betrayed us all, puppet on a string, his in-
so to speak, to spew vomit
to say his name.
The high and mighty WADE MARK has
House.
Mark emerged as a UNC
taken a BIG fall from the Chair…Nobody even wants
dain most people feel about handling the High Office in dependence was reduced on Rowley as part of a “NO
the former Speaker of the a most dishonourable fashion,
tarnishing the Chair become a self-inflicted caliament,
spearheaded by cumstance made allowable of then Finance Minister
to nothing more than to Rowley” campaign in Par-
Parliamentary time; a cir-
revoke the appointment
House.
Wade Mark, his name with bad rulings here and sualty of Parliament as he Kamla and her notorious by the statistical electoral Larry Howai because his
now scripted in mud, and there in reduction ad absurdumhest
of his puppetmasters, He never stopped her. People’s Partnership. of FCB soured the public
operated fully at the be-
regime.
majority held then by the conduct as CEO, back then
odium.
People do not want to When he was in the Kamla, Moonilal, Suruj. He had allowed Toppin to History will never be confidence in his ability to
hear about him anymore. Lower House I noticed then And the cabal who calibrated
and guided his ev-
pulling her up under the pended the then Opposition State.
ratiray on Rowley without kind to Mark who sus-
manage the finances of the
People do not have anything
good at all to say marks portentously as a ery ruling, most of which Standing Orders of Parlia-
leader Dr. Keith Rowley Unbelievably, Mark
Wade had chalked up a few
about the outgoing, egregious
Speaker of the House, But that was not to be for Orders, undemocratic, a of the many reasons, people sentatives – without pay –
politician with potential. stood against the Standing ment. And that is just one from the House of Repre-
Wade Mark.
very long.
breach of high office, just are saying to Mark: Good in a matter that was perused
This then is his epitaph. Especially after then merely reflecting the voice Riddance!
by the police and culpability
was never determined
Large sections of the lame-duck Kamla Persad- of his Master back then – History will never be
population are saying in Bisssessar appointed him Kamla!!!
kind to Mark, who operated
and ruled at the behest But it was the first time in
and established.
their heart of hearts individually
and collectively, bubble, his potential as a try will never forgive and of Kamla and the powers our history – in the vener-
Speaker of the House his The people of this coun-
Good Riddance Wade man of honour was quickly forget the very atrocious behind her throne in firing able halls of Parliament an
Mark. Vamoos!
vaporized. Explanation is behavior of Mark at the elected officials left, right incestuous relationship existed
between the Speaker
Good riddance to this in order. Mark was later Chair.
and centre in flagrant abuse
country’s worst speaker, then joined at the hip to the Most of his heavy-hand-
of the Standing Orders and of the House and the then
UNC-led government.
Above all, what I’ve
THEY GOT THE MOST ‘HARD TALK’ FROM THE found most disturbing
WORST HOUSE SPEAKER EVER - WADE MARK about this country’s former
speaker of the House
PM Dr. KEITH ROWLEY
COLM IMBERT
MARLENE McDONALD
ILP Leader JACK WARNER
Wade Mark was the day
January 23, 2015. When
the Speaker structurally effected
a gag order on Warner
who had filed a motion
which was to be debated on
Members’ Day at the sitting
of the House on January
23, 2015, Warner had
asked then PM Kamla to
playing political poker for
Kamla said back then his
basis for his authority came
from the Judiciary.
Mark told the Parliament
then: “I received
a few hours ago a notice
from the High Court of
the Republic of Trinidad
and Tobago, dated January
16, 2015 a matter involving
Larry Howai and
Azad Ali of the Sunshine
Publishing Company.”
Turned out Mark told a
big, fat lie on the Judiciary,
in his attempt to protect the
then Finance Minister.
He lied to the Judiciary.
And Kamla still kept him in
the Chair.
What a shame. What a
shame.
Good Riddance Mark.
Good riddance. Stay on
your legs, yes, but outside
of the Parliament.