Khadijah is the right package
I was at a Hindu religious ceremony at a school I was teaching at when I noticed a woman in a yellow sari greeting some staff members and helping package parsad.
She was unusually kind and seemed to know everyone by name. She said hello to me and asked me what subject I taught and we chatted a while. She spoke to me as if we were friends for a long while; she amazed me with her unrehearsed way of speaking and she seemed very sincere.
“What a nice lady,” I thought to myself. I asked another teacher if he knew who she was as she was not on our teaching staff. He said she was the chair of the Tunapuna Regional Corporation and acting chair of the UNC: Khadijah Ameen.
I couldn’t believe it. Here was a person carrying two outstanding titles and yet endowed with a heavy sense of genuine politeness and humility. I felt a sharp sting of shock. I have had the displeasure of being in the presence of cabinet ministers before and witnessing their “snobby” and “high and mighty” ways. Since I had previously barely heard of her before I was very surprised at how “down to earth” she was.
Today we know her as the UNC candidate for Chaguanas West. She may not win the seat—but she certainly possess a tranquil, yet immensely strong, sense of humbleness that is an almost extinct personality trait among politicians.
As for Avinash Singh who recently graduated from UWI and apparently hasn’t got his OJT contract as yet (like every other UWI graduate), please do not ridicule the Constitution by contesting. Enough said.
Jeremy Ramberran
Barrackpore