Reflections on political changes

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - A NATIONAL holiday in Barbados yesterday afforded me the opportunity to reflect on a few current political developments of relevance as T&T prepares for Carnival 2013 and loses no sweat over domestic party politicking; after all, it's the official season for fun and frolic. First, the understandable jubilation by Tobagonians over achieving a stunning, historic clean sweep of the 12 seats in the People's National Movement-controlled Tobago House of Assembly that the incumbent has dominated for a dozen years. That landslide victory would come as a shock to Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and her Port of Spain-based People's Partnership Government, currently in the third year of its first-term administration.