PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Trinidad and Tobago has now been challenged to entertain the prospect of a Jack Warner scenario that is still being scripted. Such is the outcome, first, of the unfolding of increasingly devastating revelations and events and, then, of his own calculating responses.
His resignations from high FIFA and international football positions, from the T&T Cabinet, from the chairmanship of the United National Congress (UNC) and, finally, from the Parliament have now confronted all observers with the immediacy of a new Jack Warner reality. In T&T, the removal of such a large profile will cause everyone to look with different eyes at the ruling coalition, and at the UNC majority inside it that dominates the Government and the Parliament.
It’s still too early to refer to a Jack Warner “legacy”, at least while he remains physically active and politically alive, evidently commanding loyal support. Warner loyalists can be assumed to comprise not just his constituents but also former parliamentary and Cabinet colleagues, and UNC members, all of whom have combined in the past to deliver solid backing for him.