Dear Editor,
Dr. Keith Rowley remains a toxic brew of unmitigated anger and recklessness with the facts.
Rowley’s bellyaching about the inter-island boat service ignores the reality that the current administration has improved the facility and this is a brief glitch.
His hysterics over the present fleeting setback stand in sharp contrast to his response to the persistent mechanical breakdowns, scheduling fiascos, cargo delays and vessel crises that prevailed under his watch.
Dr Keith Rowley is more concerned about his goat, sheep and pigs, and chickens have no feed
While the Tobago-born Rowley served as national leader, there were unending and lengthy emergencies with the T&T Express, Cabo Star, APT James, and T&T Spirit.
Taxpayers underwrote multi-million-dollar bills for a service that regularly collapsed due to the lack of availability of scheduled fleets, often from engine breakdowns.
An official report during Rowley’s tenure confirmed a chronic fleet insufficiency. Vessels were regularly sidelined for dry-docking or repeated engine repairs. Tobago merchants and households suffered shortages of daily essentials.
The Tobago Ferry Cabo Star
Rowley’s stock response was to ridicule those who complained about the prolonged breakdown of the vital passenger and cargo link between both islands. On one occasion, he mocked those anguished by a critical shortage of essential food items.
In a kneejerk decision, he committed the country to purchasing a costly vessel without scrutiny from local maritime engineers.
In general, Rowley’s management of the sea bridge was disastrous and compounded by blatant derision of affected nationals and visitors.
His condemnation of the Tobago electorate’s decision reinforces him as irresponsible, callous, and intellectually insincere.
There is no end to Rowley’s misguided fury.
Curtis Anthony Obrady,
Arima
