Luckily, World Cup matches rested yesterday. On Tuesday and Wednesday the Senate took an earlier-than-usual tea break at 4 pm enabling Parliamentarians to watch Tuesday’s historic Brazil defeat and Wednesday’s Argentinian recoup on South American’s behalf. Yesterday’s Lower House football discourse between PNM’s Terrence Deyalsingh and PP’s Emmanuel George took a back seat when PNM’s Nileung Hypolite assumed PNM Whip Marlene Mcdonald’s seat, holding the post in her absence.
“Dat is unity!...Lookin good in the chair, boy!” PP MPs applauded. They erupted in howls of amusement a minute later when PNM’s Colm Imbert entered and took the Whip’s chair, causing Hypolite to return to his seat. “Dey give the boy a cobo-sweat…but you was looking good! We want you move one seat over…” (PNM leader Keith Rowley’s seat,) PP MPs chortled.
The announcement of absentees Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and Opposition leader Keith Rowley, both out of T&T on private business, also brought exchanges from the respective sides: “Gone Brazil…” quipped PNM’s Dona Cox on one. “…He abandon he post,” PP’s Roodal Moonilal on the other. Persad-Bissessar’s expected home Monday night after her World Cup break. Rowley’s in the US, consolidating with T&T nationals and profile-heightening at events. (This, shortly after criticising the PM’s trip.)
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