For­mer jour­nal­ist and In­de­pen­dent Sen­a­tor, who is al­so Di­rec­tor of the Lloyd Best In­sti­tute, Suni­ty Ma­haraj, is ar­gu­ing that it is left to be seen what im­pact for­mer trade union lead­ers who now have min­is­te­r­i­al po­si­tions in the new Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment will have.

“In our sys­tem, the on­ly pow­er­ful per­son is the Prime Min­is­ter and you just put some­body out of the Cab­i­net to­mor­row if they do not com­ply. It is as easy as that. It comes back to the whole con­struct of the con­sti­tu­tion and the dis­tri­b­u­tion of pow­er,” she said.

On Wednes­day, Ma­haraj spoke at a sem­i­nar on the sig­nif­i­cance of May Day for Labour in T&T at the Cipri­ani Col­lege of Labour and Co-op­er­a­tive Stud­ies, Val­sayn.