Louis Lee Sing may be considered many things by people, but for sure he is a die hard PNM, emanating from the youth league under Dr. Eric Williams to the success story he has become today.
Many believe his ride to fortune and rise to a Caricom media mogul was in large part due to the PNM. But Lee Sing proved himself worthy after going into private business while the PNM was in opposition, and earning himself a reputation as a Caribbean media don.
I knew Lee Sing in the days when he owned and operated a coffee shop in the Excellent City Centre. This was a man who started over, waiting the tables and serving customers in his own business. This is a person who after unfair political misfortune restarted his life and career from the boot straps. Ego is one thing this gentleman certainly does not possess.
His rise from that point onward was up again. And this time he did not rely on government to ensure his economic and professional success. Lee Sing showed staying power and resilience in business riding out the bad and capitalizing on the good times, eventually building a Caribbean media empire.
He is probably one of the few success stories who rose from being a political loyalist to become an independent business magnate and significant media mogul.
Certainly in the PNM, the culture fostered by a dependency syndrome will like to take away his success, but this is a person who through mud and water stoically supported the PNM party, and his just reward is a bunch of pip squeak county councilors now trying to unseat him in the name of the leader.
This is clearly NAZI type politics, which arguably is the same thing happening within the UNC, as we have seen platform after platform of wild declarations of absolute loyalty to each party's respective leaders.
Lee Sing is a media mogul, a success story, and besides the political taint, he largely makes sense when he speaks, trying to change the model of being a ceremonial Mayor to that of someone who actually achieves something and improve city civic life.
I guess surrounded by a bunch of incompetent and low achievers Lee Sing must now eat doltish (note not humble) pie, and either take their sanction, or face a blistering attack on his character for speaking the truth.
That the PNM continues to believe their business is nobody's business, tantamount to a party that is not willing to change for good or bad. This is not a national party, but rather a small club of persons with their own warped and limited outlook on reality.
The harsh reality is that the party is regressing and becoming the NJAC of yesteryear, while a few sycophants tries to hold steadfastly onto the fables and tales of its clouded political history, rather than seek to note its achievements and failures and move on from there. A contradiction in terms, of course!
Lee Sing is the PNM's only media voice, yet he is treated like a common criminal before a King Henry lynch mob. It is also important to note that nothing can stop the party from self destructing as a war with such a powerful opinion leader like Lee Sing will ultimately be to their detriment.
But this seems not to bother the PNM in the least, as criticism is met with the conspiracy theories that Lee-Sing is out to destroy rather than inform and encourage public debate.
Louis Lee Sing will soon be a casualty like Vernon De Lima, Kenneth Valley, Pennelope Beckles and many others who chose to discuss serious issues rather than burying them in the sand and continuing like everything is normal.
Lee Sing is not the problem; it is the PNM and the way they do business. That they are resolved to continue with the trite nonsense that the leader, by virtue of office, becomes godlike, and an untouchable, and stands above criticism, is indicative of a serious problem that will not take the country forward, and certainly turn off every sensible thinking person.
Remember, this is the very same cult personality culture that encouraged Patrick Manning saw nothing wrong with Calder Hart, Utharo Rao and Juliana Pena.
Many believe his ride to fortune and rise to a Caricom media mogul was in large part due to the PNM. But Lee Sing proved himself worthy after going into private business while the PNM was in opposition, and earning himself a reputation as a Caribbean media don.
I knew Lee Sing in the days when he owned and operated a coffee shop in the Excellent City Centre. This was a man who started over, waiting the tables and serving customers in his own business. This is a person who after unfair political misfortune restarted his life and career from the boot straps. Ego is one thing this gentleman certainly does not possess.
His rise from that point onward was up again. And this time he did not rely on government to ensure his economic and professional success. Lee Sing showed staying power and resilience in business riding out the bad and capitalizing on the good times, eventually building a Caribbean media empire.
He is probably one of the few success stories who rose from being a political loyalist to become an independent business magnate and significant media mogul.
Certainly in the PNM, the culture fostered by a dependency syndrome will like to take away his success, but this is a person who through mud and water stoically supported the PNM party, and his just reward is a bunch of pip squeak county councilors now trying to unseat him in the name of the leader.
This is clearly NAZI type politics, which arguably is the same thing happening within the UNC, as we have seen platform after platform of wild declarations of absolute loyalty to each party's respective leaders.
Lee Sing is a media mogul, a success story, and besides the political taint, he largely makes sense when he speaks, trying to change the model of being a ceremonial Mayor to that of someone who actually achieves something and improve city civic life.
I guess surrounded by a bunch of incompetent and low achievers Lee Sing must now eat doltish (note not humble) pie, and either take their sanction, or face a blistering attack on his character for speaking the truth.
That the PNM continues to believe their business is nobody's business, tantamount to a party that is not willing to change for good or bad. This is not a national party, but rather a small club of persons with their own warped and limited outlook on reality.
The harsh reality is that the party is regressing and becoming the NJAC of yesteryear, while a few sycophants tries to hold steadfastly onto the fables and tales of its clouded political history, rather than seek to note its achievements and failures and move on from there. A contradiction in terms, of course!
Lee Sing is the PNM's only media voice, yet he is treated like a common criminal before a King Henry lynch mob. It is also important to note that nothing can stop the party from self destructing as a war with such a powerful opinion leader like Lee Sing will ultimately be to their detriment.
But this seems not to bother the PNM in the least, as criticism is met with the conspiracy theories that Lee-Sing is out to destroy rather than inform and encourage public debate.
Louis Lee Sing will soon be a casualty like Vernon De Lima, Kenneth Valley, Pennelope Beckles and many others who chose to discuss serious issues rather than burying them in the sand and continuing like everything is normal.
Lee Sing is not the problem; it is the PNM and the way they do business. That they are resolved to continue with the trite nonsense that the leader, by virtue of office, becomes godlike, and an untouchable, and stands above criticism, is indicative of a serious problem that will not take the country forward, and certainly turn off every sensible thinking person.
Remember, this is the very same cult personality culture that encouraged Patrick Manning saw nothing wrong with Calder Hart, Utharo Rao and Juliana Pena.
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