Premier-elect Sharlene Cartwright Robinson’s Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM) has returned to power after 13 years with at least ten out of the 15 elected seats in the House of Assembly, with one constituency still undeclared after several recounts…
Outgoing premier, Dr Rufus Ewing, failed to win a seat.
(Caribbean News Now, December 16, 2016)
Despite notorious setbacks in the United States, Brazil, and South Korea this year, women continue their inexorable rise as national leaders.
After yesterday’s national elections, Michelle Bachelet [of Chile] is poised to become the first female head of state in South America. And, in light of the recent trend set by Angela Merkel of Germany and Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia, Bachelet’s election will hearten those of us who welcome the seepage of ‘woman power’ through the crevices of governance (in politics and business) around the world.
Alas, male chauvinism still predominates throughout the Americas, and nowhere more so than in the United States. Indeed, Bachelet herself indicated that it might take some time before this seepage develops into a wave of global enlightenment…
Nevertheless, here’s to ‘the fairer sex’ — not only as indispensable guardians of home and hearth, but also as invaluable (and capable) stewards of the ship of state!
(“Cracking the Political Glass Ceiling: First Woman to Become President in South America,” The iPINIONS Journal, December 12, 2005)
Congratulations to Premier-elect Robinson and the PDM.
But God help the TCI. Because it does not reflect or bode well that it took this country – with a population of just over 30,000 – almost 12 hours longer to announce Election-Day results than it took the USA – with a population of well over 300,000,000.
Never mind the frustration of TCIslanders in constituencies with less than 500 registered voters having to wait hours longer to vote than Americans in constituencies with over 5,000,000. Un-friggin’-believable!
That said, I would be remiss not to hail the good sense of our people to reject former Premier Michael Misick’s pathetic and misguided attempt to escape prison by re-entering parliament. And shame on former Haitian President Michel Martelly for flying into our country to serve as his accomplice in this attempt.
But to comment any further on him would be to rain on her parade.
Related commentaries:
Cracking the glass ceiling…
Corrupt Misick and suspension of TCI constitution…