Trinidad and Tobago’s Opposition Leader was recently suspended from Parliament for using his laptop without permission, but only a few bloggers seemed tuned in to the story…
Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society posted a comprehensive roundup of mainstream media stories about the event, and as expected, The Extra Secret Blog of Basdeo Panday, which came into being during Trinidad and Tobago’s recently-held general elections as a response to this popular blog, was quick on the draw in defending “himself”:
I hope you all see what I go through for you. I had to go through a terrible ordeal in Parliament. The PNM set up the whole thing to make me look bad. They had speaker Barry Sinanan first chastise Gary Hunt for using his laptop. The point was to make it look as though nobody can use a laptop basically, so when I went about my merry way online they wanted to rest it on me like Akon did to Danah Alleyne in Zen when she went for “ice cream” that time.
In posting his weekly roundup, Notes from Port of Spain reported that:
The House of Representatives went into meltdown when the opposition leader was suspended for using a laptop, which the government had kindly provided. As a result, parliamentary debate on food prices, which have risen 19 per cent in the last year, was abandoned.
…while the whole thing has left Caribbean Free Radio feeling “terribly confused” – so much so that she has created an online poll to help her make sense of the whole unsettling incident.
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