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