RENTAL DEAL!

Page 22 ISSUE 147 Friday 11th MARCH, 2016
FOR ANAND’S SEVERAL BLUNDERS
- Warner threatens to sue on behalf of T&T!
Story by JACK WARNER
The collapse of the
Petrotrin v Malcolm
Jones case
was stylishly managed by
Anand Ramlogan, Kamla
Persad Bissessar and company
last week.
Singing from the same
hymn sheet the UNC managed
to deflect public attention
from the fact that yet another
one of Anand’s ‘make
work’ ventures had in fact
failed spectacularly before
the local courts.
The time line is useful to
remember.
Immediately after we took
office Anand appointed his A
Team to investigate corruption.
Although they were appointed
with public fanfare
the now disgraced team
comprised persons who were
handpicked by Anand to
conduct these investigations.
The team included Ramdeen
who is still working in
all of these failed cases.
Trinidad is a small place
so when I was given certain
information I went trustingly
to the Prime Minister
to warn her about what was
then an open secret. The A
Team itself was nothing but
an opportunity for graft and
In essence, teams are
not measured by the first
across the line, but by
the last to finish.
The technique naturally
motivates all stakeholders
to unite around a
common purpose, build
synergies that add value
to accomplishing the objective,
encourages the
worst performers to up
their game so as not disappoint
his teammates
and drives leaders to
emerge- Team dynamics.
The business of the
military shares similar
business fundamentals
of quality, production,
efficiencies and accomplishing
mission objectives.
No military is worth
its weight in gold without
inspirational Leadership
(serve for God,
Duty and Country) and
corruption. She disregarded
my advice then.
The rest is now history.
In the few months it took
to prepare worthless reports
with a few salacious details
thrown in, the team was able
to rack up legal fees in excess
of fifty million dollars.
All for us to ‘discover’
that some State Enterprises
had made some bad investments
and that Reverend
Pena had ‘stayed’ at a UTT
guest house that was open to
the public.
I warned the then Prime
Minister repeatedly. Her
attitude then was different
from what it is today. Then
she would not hear of an investigation
into her AG. Today
she is the first to speak of
writing letters to her friends
in the Integrity Commission.
It was an open secret that
there was no basis to mount
civil actions in any of the
claims. The AG’s office
sought to get advice to justify
all of the claims. For
a few dollars here and there
they got the advice.
In at least two cases that
I know of Queen’s Counsel
advised against the proceedings
in advance.
One of these was the e
LEADERSHIP VS MANAGEMENT? ASK THE MILITARY!
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 15
Management competencies
in all fields of operations.
Most militaries are vast
and very complex organizations
with many (business)
units working in
sync.
Business enterprises
too require synchronized
units bound by common
strategy and operational
threads.
One salient attribute
inherent in most military
organizational infrastructures
that give them competitive
advantage over
every business archetype
is their discipline.
A disciplined organization
is a credit to exemplary
leadership and competent
management.
One can argue that the
military’s organizational
culture allows for management
to give orders
that forces obedience,
Teck case. Yet Anand went
ahead and sued. I went
ahead and warned the then
Prime Minister as it was
my duty to do. She ignored
me once again while Anand
and his friends sued everybody.
And Anand, drunk
with power, boasted publicly
that he was on a witch hunt.
No one held him to account
then.
It was also an open secret
that the DPP was not entertaining
any of Anand’s varied
requests to act. So the
law suits came thick and fast.
But as I had then warned
the then Prime Minister
these public relations victory
dances by Anand could
not last. And so when the
UTT case collapsed spectacularly
before the elections
the public’s anger was quite
correctly directed to Anand
and Kamla. Mr Garvin
Nicholas who by then had
replaced Ramlogan promised
the population that the
other cases were all on solid
ground. I knew first hand
that this was not true. So I
waited. I waited until the
Petrotrin case collapsed last
week expecting that there
would now be an accounting
by Anand or Kamla. Only
to discover that they took in
front and caught the Government
with its pants down.
With Sturge mouthing
for them now that Anand is
a bad word the focus was
deftly thrown back to the
present Government who
seemed too happy to just accept
the blame. So instead of
answering the question why
were these worthless cases
brought in the first case the
question a bold Kamla is
now asking why they were
stopped. She didn’t bother
to answer for Anand.
The Petrotrin case collapsed
in the High Court
in even more spectacular
fashion than the UTT case.
With Petrotrin, Anand’s
hand picked lawyer Vincent
Nelson QC, pulled the
case before it even started
with a cut tail facing
him.
At least in the UTT case
he pulled out after the case
had started.
Well I am waiting still.
I am waiting to hear how
much taxpayers money still
has to be thrown away not
only in the failed persecution
of Malcolm Jones. I am
also waiting for Ken Julien
‘s e Teck case. I am also
waiting for Professor Copeland’s
Pan case and his e
Teck case.
I am also waiting for all
unlike a business organization
that does not have
the luxury of every order
being carried out without
question.
The argument emphasizes
the Leadership Vs
Management ReThinking
exercise this article invokes.
No soldier in any army
will carry out his orders
to the best of his ability,
willingly, unless the leadership
has inspired him.
The same can be said for
business organizations.
ReThink It: Leadership
and management are
symbiotic twins having
individual characteristics.
One cannot survive and
grow without the other.
Many businesses fail
to value the difference
between the two and consequently
limit their organization
to taskmaster
management- a tunnel vision
operations mindset.
Leadership is the map
whereas management is
the driver- A business is
lost if its value creation
drivers have no purposeful
direction.
“Leadership and
learning are indispensable
to each other”- John
F. Kennedy
A few good reads:
An easy read: “The
21 Irrefutable Laws of
Leadership” by John C.
Maxwell
A best in class book on
Leadership: “On becoming
a leader” by Warren
Bennis
Every new leader’s
handbook: “The First 90
Days: Critical Success
Strategies for new leaders
at all levels”
A Leadership and
Management classic:
“Jack Straight from the
Gut” by Jack Welch
GARVIN NICHOLAS
MALCOLM JONES
of these cases including
the Calder Hart case to collapse.
If by that time the powers
that be have not called
Anand and Kamla to account
I will take action as a
taxpayer to make sure that
Barbados and
St. Lucia have
ended talks here
aimed at establishing an
agreement on maritime
boundaries between the
two Caribbean Community
(CARICOM)
countries.
A government statement
said that officials
from the two countries
ended four days of talks
here Friday and ‘prepared
the draft text of a
maritime boundary delimitation
agreement”.
It said they were joined
by officials from St. Vincent
and the Grenadines,
who had recently concluded
similar negotiations
with Barbados.
St. Vincent and the
Grenadines and Barbados
signed a Maritime
Boundary Delimitation
Agreement on August 31,
last year.
Former AG ANAND
RAMLOGAN
Former PM KAMLA
PERSAD BISSESSAR
those who raided the public
purse will be made to answer
for their wrongs.
At the end of the day as I
warned Kamla we will all be
paying for her boys wickedness
for years to come.
If the Government will
not protect us from Anand
and Kamla even now then I
will have to take in front to
protect us all.
BARBADOS AND
ST LUCIA TEAM UP
- for agreement on maritime
boundaries
The statement said that
the two delegations were
supported by a team from
the Commonwealth Secretariat
and that the heads
of delegations underlined
“that these negotiations
and, in particular, the
provisional agreement
between Barbados and
St. Lucia bear testimony
to the spirit of cordiality
and good-neighbourliness
that has characterised
all of these discussions.
“The United Nations
Convention of the Law
of the Sea, to which both
countries are party, entitles
them to claim an Exclusive
Economic Zone
of up to 200 nautical
miles. As a result of the
proximity of these States,
there is a necessity to
delimit their maritime
boundaries,” the statement
noted.